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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of ASFS will be moving. There are families who live within the walk zone.

Every school will likely have new boundaries. All. Let that sink in.

Now please stop getting selfish and demanding that we move items between schools. Kids who are at one school in 2020 May get split between 2 or 3 schools depending on how the boundaries shake out. Would you want a precious mural cut in two and taken to the new schools? Aquarium cut in two?

Stop being selfish. We have a capacity crisis and we need people to stop being so parochial and think about the greater good instead of threatening to take their toys home and getting matching shirts.[/quote]
At asfs there are currently five families who live in the walk zone.  Let that sink in— those guys wearing matching yellow shirts who got teachers to also wear matching yellow shirts were literally all there at that school board meeting.  There are no more of them.  And they literally are the same ten people who have showed up repeatedly at school board office hours— using maiden names and arriving separately to make them seem more numerous than they are.  This is the epitome of a minority loud voice selfishly disregarding the greater community to promote a very specific, selfish agenda.  
So I think it’s very fair to ask that if they do set up a neighborhood school there, some portion of the science equipment move to different schools.  Maybe move the flight simulator to taylor.  How special would that be!  And move the aquariums to Ashlawn or key or Long branch.  [/quote]

You must be confusing 5 new walk zone families who started at Science Focus this school year.  My child finished Science Focus last year and I know of 5 on my street alone who are currently there and I’m aware of about 20 neighborhood families currently there.  That does not consider those each year who wanted to get in and couldn’t because there have been no seats for these kids in recent years.  When my older DC was there 10 years ago, the school was half team and half Key.  In fact, we had a PTA president in past years from the walk area too so it’s not always been all about the children who live in the Key boundary as some would have others believe.  People seem to have short memories and focusing on the current population in any one school will never solve any larger APS capacity problems.

Sounds like there are a lot of folks who live near Key who want to have a neighborhood school - I’m confused why people are upset that folks who live near Science Focus want a neighborhood school too … sounds like an odd double standard to me.[/quote]

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