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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we trying to save Key on Key for 2 grades of kids who got in during the Key as neighborhood school era? If everyone else is countywide option, it shouldn’t matter where the school goes.

The options policy went into effect 3 years ago, so only the Key 2nd graders and above got in as “neighbored” and not as the countywide option. Since current 4th and 5th graders are not affected by the 2021 process, only 2 grades at Key (2nd and 3rd) are neighborhood. Everyone else got in as countywide option.

APS hasn’t broken down the numbers by grade, but Key has over 60% transfers in from outside the key neighborhood based on last years numbers. That likely will increase every year based on the new policy. Key actually has kids fro every elementary in Arlington, not just eastern schools. Significant transferring in schools:
- Barrett 49
- Glebe 55
- Long Branch 83
- Patrick Henry 41
- Taylor 90 (likely higher because they were in the “team”)
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Transfer-Report-2018-19-1.pdf#page4

ATS will be a lot closer for a ton of current Key students. Sad that fact is being obscured.
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I think most people who have been following this closely are fully aware of the above, as is the Staff and the SB.
I've said it before- the most vocal strident voices for "keep key on key" largely do not live in the Key/ASFS neighborhood.  The location of Key works for them, for a mix of reasons, and they will not have the option to stay there if it becomes a neighborhood school.
Also- and this is something keep Key on Key advocates hate to admit, many of the natives Spanish speakers who live close to Key are not sold on the benefits of immersion.  The advocates are deathly afraid that those families will choose to stay at the Key neighborhood school rather than move to the ATS building.  Even more likely the more welcoming the Key neighborhood school is to them.  The English speaking families think they have to have the Spanish speaking families for their immersion model to work.  [/quote]

We are a family who is applying to Key for K for 2020 and will be fine if it moves, even though it's less convenient for us. But we also support the county doing what's best for the whole system. Am I getting up at a SB meeting and saying that? No. I don't want to be ostracized from a sizable vocal group at a community we're hoping to join. Nor do I want my kid ostracized. But I'm sure there are many others like me. At least everyone in the rising K class will have made the choice to attend knowing the move is coming and therefore will not be as angry as those in the upper grades...[/quote]

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