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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not bus my kid to Reed from Key.  If ASFS became a regular neighborhood school, I'd send him there.  I didn't chose ASFS for a special program, I chose it b/c I didn't want immersion.  [/quote]

Can we move Key program to the Reed space and convert the Key building to a regular neighborhood school. We would LOVE that. Walkable, not immersion. [/quote]

Those of you in ASF/Key need to start following the debate at a granular level ASAP. Because the rumblings around Reed are that they are looking to move the ASF program to Reed and blow it out to 725 students.  They think that is the only way to attract away enough students in the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor to relieve overcrowding.  This thread is turning into a North vs. South debate, but the real question is specifically whether it makes sense to turn Reed into a choice school to alleviate overcrowding in the NE section of Arlington in 2020/21. Right now, the only residents who seem to be expressing an opinion are the people who live around Westover.[/quote]

Where is this info coming from?[/quote]

This info is coming from people in the Westover neighborhood who attended last week's SB meeting. The CIP plan specificially states that they are turning Reed into an ES- that is a done deal. So some of the Westover residents went to hear the plan. There was a lot of discussion among the SB members was then about the best use of Reed, with a lot of discussion about using Reed as a new choice school. (You can also find a story about this on ArlingtonNow-- here's the link: https://www.arlnow.com/2016/05/12/elementary-school-proposed-for-reed-school-in-westover/

Since that meeting, Westover neighbors have been all the SB and APS staff trying to get more information. Everyone keeps saying that Reed needs to be used as a solution to solve the overcrowding in the NE corridor because there is no land in that area to build a new ES. Moving ASF has been mentioned in numerous conversations. I think most of the NE families are totally oblivious, because who really attends SB meetings? (Shame on all of us for that!) Anyway, the second SB meeting on the CIP is tonight. Then the public forum (where you can make a 2 or 3 minute speech to the SB) is this Thursday (May 19).

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