Reply to ASFS/Key Swap Off . . .

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "ASFS/Key Swap Off . . ."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Yes it is.  No one from ASFS has any animosity towards Key (though it doesn't look like the same can be said of Key parents towards ASFS). 
Its possible that people other than those at ASFS are paying attention to this issue.[/quote]

In all fairness, although I do not believe anyone at ASFS has any [i]animosity[/i] towards Key, there is probably some bitterness or frustration with the group of ASFS parents who pushed hard for the swap and feel like Key's efforts this past fall thwarted their efforts to place ASFS in the Lyon Village area.  If you read through some of the previous threads or some of the AEM or ArlNow comments related to swap articles, there are definitely some ASFS parents who are dismissive of (or who try to negate)  the Key parent's concerns about how the swap would affect their commute or access to the Lincoln Street building.  On one hand, the ASFS parents cry foul about Rosslyn's "longest bus ride ever" but think it's no big deal for Key families to have to walk over a mile to and from the metro to get to Lincoln Street. [/quote]

I think it's more of a question of whether a neighborhood school or option school has a greater claim to convenience and ease of access. You could flip your last sentence and say that Key families said moving the optional program a bit more than a mile would be a program killer, but it's no big deal for Rosslyn kids to be zoned to a school over 3 miles away and not have a choice to revert to a closer neighborhood school.

I really think both should and will be neighborhood. The whole swap was a silly idea. It will suck for Key families, particularly those who got in under neighborhood preference and had a win-win situation with their preferred location and program. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics