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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let the record reflect that Key went down swinging.  Fought the good fight. [/quote]
But was that really wise?  They could have accepted the swap and gotten a comparably sized building that was close enough that most of their current Spanish speakers would have stayed.  Now they are spreading all these rumors trying to rile up asfs parents, saying that aps won’t say if the administration is going to move to key with the students.  I can answer that one for you— no way will mb touch keys building with a ten ft pole, she will retire first.  But why spread the rumor?  So bizarre![/quote]

Total rumors.  Monique O’Grady went to ASFS last week and described the process by which the new Key principal will be hired and how s/he will interview and put together their administration and staff at the new neighborhood school at Key.  Anyone— current employees and non-employees — will have to apply for the positions available and they will (or will not) be hired by the new principal, who should be selected by July 1. As far as excess teachers at a school (like ASFS, which will have too many teachers once the boundaries are adjusted), the teachers hired most recently will be displaced first but APS will try to relocate them.  MB announced she is not leaving ASFS.  The poster on AEM who is trying to rile everyone up is just sour grapes. [/quote]

Definitely sour grapes. She was probably cranky after someone pointed out that her maps were NOT better than the proposal 1 map. Her maps actually JUSTIFY the move.

And omg - the racism and tone-policing accusations are getting ridiculous and outright hostile. Exactly what Maura was trying to describe. Too bad her comments fell on deaf ears. 
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My favorite comment was the poster who wanted to be grandfathered in at the Key building.  So you clearly don’t live near Key (since you can’t stay as a neighborhood student) but went to Key (presumably for immersion), but don’t want to move with immersion . . . or go back to your neighborhood school?  So you really just went to Key for the location?  As in, it must be close to your job or commute.  That’s the real motivation behind a lot of the Key no-move folks, including the one who is trying to rile up ASFS on AEM. Even though ATS is equal distant or closer than Key, it’s in the wrong direction from their commute for Extended Day.[/quote]

I think they meant staying with their cohort in redrawing they catchment zones for Claremont and FKA Key. I hope. I agree the whole fight was actually about commute - a rich people temper tantrum with a thin veneer of social justice.[/quote]

You are correct, pp misunderstood that poster.  They were talking about how the new boundaries would affect whether families were assigned to Key or Claremont, and whether families might have to change schools if their zoned neighborhood school changed, or if they reassign which neighborhood elementary schools feed to Key and which to Claremont (since the ATS site sits in the Claremont zone).[/quote]
They will certainly grandfather.  Besides, Key's going to "lose" so many of their current students, there should be plenty of room at ATS for anyone who wants to stay![/quote]

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