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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.
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So here's an idea.  It might be good it might not.  But it is surely is better than flaming others, and avoids the false-choices you presented.

It seems to me that Arlington County has been able to cough up $27M to buy an office building in a prime location to expand its offices (presumably so it can be more adaptive and responsive). http://www.arlnow.com/2012/11/20/county-closes-on-purchase-of-homeless-shelter-building/  So why couldn't it do something similar for a school?  My suggestion is the county look to acquire the land that is currently used as the Red Top Cab lot (13th Street North and Hudson Street) and build a new neighborhood school for Lion Village/Clarendon/Orange Line area.  This school would be much more a "neighborhood school" then ASFS is as no one (less those few who lottery in) who go to the school actually lives in the neighborhood.  ASFS can then become a choice school for more schools zones as presumably several people who live in LV and vicinity would prefer to have their "own" neighborhood school.[/quote]

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