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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens to ASFS? Theoretically it's not a neighborhood school but rather an options school for students who are in boundary for 3 schools and after that for the entire county?[/quote]

So Key/ASFS is a zone with two option schools and NO neighborhood school. ASFS is the defacto neighborhood school because it is the most mainstream program. What are they thinking in terms of this zone?[/quote]

Under this vision the whole 'team' thing in that part of the county goes away.  There really is no reason that this little area of the county should have some exclusive school options.  Key becomes just a immersion option program for one half of the county while Claremont is the immersion option for the other half of the county (and the "halfs" area East/West, not North/South).  They suggested that all neighborhood schools would have as a default a "STEAM" instructional model since the usual description of the STEAM model is all things they would want all ES kids to get -- problem solving, creativity, innovation, emphasis on science, math and arts, along with literacy of course.  So ASFS becomes a neighborhood school with nothing particularly unique about its instructional focus.

Each half of the county would have an immersion option and an IB option plus the countywide options for Montessori and ATS.  However, they have completely overlooked the fact that Campbell is also a unique program.[/quote]

yes- on that slide Campbell as an option school is definitely going away.  ASFS as an option school is also gone.  They have also substantially reshuffled which elementary schools go to which zones for immersion, etc.  Barrett Discovery and Jamestown would go to Claremont.  Drew, Hoffman-Boston and Oakridge flip to Key.  When I look at that slide again it doesn't list Randolph as a neighborhood school- which makes me think that the thought is Randolph and Reed would be solely IB options schools- not neighborhood at all.  [/quote]

I wonder if they would rename ASFS?  The name becomes misleading, if it no longer has a unique science focus (although there are other schools now that have a science focus while its not it their names).[/quote]

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