Reply to Arlington school boundary petition

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Arlington school boundary petition"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

When I bought my house I knew it was not zoned to ASFS, but I also knew that government, in this case Arlington, needed to be adaptive and responsive to the needs and desires of its constituents.  What you see now is that process in work.  Clearly there is at least a moderate size group of people/parents who agree with me.  I do not harbor any animosity towards those who are currently going there and I will listen to their points of view.  I believe keeping the ASFS zoning out of the discussion is copout by the school board who would rather satisfice and make an easier half-measured decision, then make a harder, comprehensive, and better county-wide boundary decision.

[/quote]

Well-said.  If this pisses off the usual Lyon Village crowd, tough.

Thank you![/quote]

Being adaptive and responsive does not mean rolling over. Key needs to remain bilingual, and there appears to be no place between Kirkwood and the Potomac to put a new elementary school. So, given the buildings we've got, what do you propose: Turning ASFS back into Page Elementary, a neighborhood school with no trendy hook? Allowing families whose homes border ASFS to enroll in a school that is still ASFS, but busing the rest of the neighborhood to Taylor? ASFS can't hold all of Cherrydale and all the LV families that don't want or don't qualify for bilingual ed (you can't start at Key after a certain grade). Families that live across the street from ATS have to get bused elsewhere -- should APS just get rid of the magnets? (I would happily put ATS and ASFS on an ice floe, but I don't think that's going to happen.)

If this pisses off the families that live near ASFS but take a bus to Taylor, tough. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics