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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yea right they would close a park to build a school.  Its expensive and no way that community would be ok with losing a park for a year or two.  And Key is more centrally located anyways, building a bigger school there doesn't solve the problem that there isn't a school within 2 miles of Rosslyn other than Key.  And Rosslyn is supposed to be car free according to the parking zoning -- new development is going to only have one parking spot for every 5 housing units.  If the county board hadn't passed the restrictive parking for courthouse/clarendon/rosslyn, I think you could get away with saying that those kids can ride a bus to taylor or jamestown.  But if you remove the walkable school at this point by making it an option school, you basically say that courthouse/clarendon/rosslyn isn't supposed to own a car but kids can't walk to school, therefore families shouldn't live there.  Its at complete odds with one another.    [/quote]

I agree. Also, ASFS currently has 510 kids from the Key zone based on the transfer report compared to the 280 Key zone kids who actually go to Key. I think that shows a clear demand for a neighborhood school over immersion even before Key changing to all lottery.[/quote]

No, it shows a clear preference for the school with higher test scores. It's not some mystery. If it were between Spanish Immersion and a neighborhood GS 3 school, Key would've been as overcrowded as Claremont and ASFS would've been under enrolled.

I have no dog in this fight, but we don't have enough money or time for perfect solutions everywhere. It's going to have to be "good enough." If you bought a house in an area without a walkable school, you have no right to demand one be created. Put your kids on the bus, they'll live. And yes, they don't want families in the R-B corridor. Duh, you were all supposed to move out to a McMansion in Herndon before Kindergarten. [/quote]

Generally, the Arlington community values walking and proximity. Hopefully, the end solution allows the greatest # of families to walk to their neighborhood schools. Given that Key is a countywide program I don't think proximity is as important of a factor. Centrally located would be ideal of course but I'd prioritize the distribution of neighborhood schools over special programs.

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