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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I could get a clearer picture of ASFS.  On one hand, you have people saying it's just a neighborhood school (not for it's own neighborhood - ha!) that has one extra hour of science.  It's really no different that any other school.

On the other hand, you have people who talk about how it's [b]special & award winning[/b] and[b] that the science lab makes it "better" than other schools.  [/b]

Aren't a lot of Arl. elementary schools award winning?  Mine is.  I don't have kids going there, but I wish I could understand this situation a little better.  [/quote]

I don't get the history on the science lab there.  I hear it was something that parents did extensive fundraising to put in.  However, parent fundraising is not supposed to be for things that are integral to instruction or will create an ongoing obligation for the district.  Which it sounds like this lab is both.  The reason for those rules is to limit inequity due to wealth across the district.  Is that a new rule?  Or just completely ignored in this case?[/quote]

I am a parent whose children continuously attended ASFS from year 4 of its existence to its 20th anniversary.  The science lab, known as investigation station, was there at least when the school was 3 years old and we toured it for the first time.  In anticipation of the 20th anniversary, some parents unilaterally decided and pretty much dragged the PTA along, with the blessing of the administration, to update/upgrade the lab.  They raised serious money.  Over the years and through the auctions, the PTA also raised other money that has been invested in the school and grounds for science-related activities but the remodeled investigation station went way above and beyond the other projects.  Basically, over time, the "ruling elite" at the school grew substantially wealthier and more emphasis was placed on raising large amounts of money and making the school more "special and award winning."  [/quote]

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