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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I could get a clearer picture of ASFS.  On one hand, you have people saying it's just a neighborhood school (not for it's own neighborhood - ha!) that has one extra hour of science.  It's really no different that any other school.

On the other hand, you have people who talk about how it's special & award winning and[b] that the science lab makes it "better" than other schools.  [/b]

Aren't a lot of Arl. elementary schools award winning?  Mine is.  I don't have kids going there, but I wish I could understand this situation a little better.  [/quote]

I don't get the history on the science lab there.  I hear it was something that parents did extensive fundraising to put in.  However, parent fundraising is not supposed to be for things that are integral to instruction or will create an ongoing obligation for the district.  Which it sounds like this lab is both.  The reason for those rules is to limit inequity due to wealth across the district.  Is that a new rule?  Or just completely ignored in this case?[/quote]

ASFS has benefitted tremendously from private donations given to the school by well heeled individuals.  If you doubt this, take a look at the EdBacker site where $177K was raised, just for the ASFS Science Lab.

[url]https://edbacker.com/c/asfs-science-lab[/url]

[b]Want to take a guess how many APS elementary schools have a science lab this well funded?       Including ASFS, the answer is one.[/b]

Huh???  ASFS has the most diverse neighborhood zones of all of North Arlington elementary schools.

ASFS has 20% FARMS and its neighborhood population represents an incredibly diverse both socio-economically and racially.

You are mad at us because we raise a ton of $--yet have less numbers of wealthy families than say Discovery, Taylor, Jamestown, etc.  I would ask why you aren't getting donations anywhere near as large when you have larger pockets.

People who believe ASFS is special are correct from one perspective:  it has only been available to a select few neighborhoods and it has a tremendous wealth of privately-funded science resources, unlike any other APS elementary school.

For anyone that thinks we should "share this great model" that is ASFS, I agree.  Going forward, let's pool all of the private science donations and spread them across all of the elementary schools.  We could call it the "ASFS Endowment" and benefactors could get plaques over at the Ed Center.

Oh and one last thing, there was no interest in sharing this great resource with all of APS, until the recent proposal to dissolve the Team, which would mean no more Jamestown and Taylor benefactors would get to attend the school.[/quote][/quote]

Huh??? ASFS has the most diverse neighborhood zones of all of North Arlington elementary schools.

ASFS has 20% FARMS and its neighborhood population represents an incredibly diverse both socio-economically and racially.

You are mad at us because we raise a ton of $--yet have less numbers of wealthy families than say Discovery, Taylor, Jamestown, etc. I would ask why you aren't getting donations anywhere near as large when you have larger pockets. [/quote]

Pockets of many in-boundary ASFS folks be plenty big, right?[/quote]

[b]The largest donors have historically been out-of-boundary Jamestown parents[/b]. [/quote]

First of all, Jamestown is NOT out of boundary for ASFS.

[b]Secondly, please explain how you know this. [/b] Have you been at the school for all 22 years of its existence?  I wasn't treasurer of the ASFS PTA so I cannot comment with 100% certainty but I had children at ASFS for 16 years.  I attended many PTA meetings and was involved in fundraising the entire time.  I can say with 100% certainty that plenty big donors came from the Key/ASFS planning units, as well as Taylor planning units.[/quote]

This should be easy to figure out for our science lab.  Go look at the names of the donors on the wall and then look up their addresses.[/quote]

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