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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Roslyn has cafs and more on the way. There will be plenty of poor Hispanic kids around the school once queens court opens up.

The issue here is that the county has lots of poor Spanish speaking elementary kids,  many many many more than could ever fit into an immersion school. What, 350 kids per school? There are more than 350 poor Spanish speaking kids within less than a block of Columbia pike. There are more than that (I believe) in barcroft apartments alone. Ismmersion isn’t going to solve anyone’s problems here. [/quote]

I heard that the inhabitants of CAFs tend to not be Hispanic. I don’t know if that’s true or not, APAH doesn’t publish anything. Honestly it doesn’t really matter. Any school in that building will be socioeconomically diverse and the neighborhood seats are needed. Current Key families, who mostly draw from the old Key zone, Taylor, and Long Branch will fight moving because it’s super convenient for them. There’s no compelling reason the program has to be on Key.[/quote]

They also don't want key to move because ... property values. Without immersion, key is basically Barrett.[/quote]
Not true at all.  There’s no neighborhood preference at key.  Why would it moving have any effect on the property values or rent.
A neighborhood school at key would be basically a lot like asfs (since 90% of the school currently lives in the key/asfs boundary).  Pretty diverse, kind of like glebe.  I imagine that there may be more sed kids there since a lot of people won’t move with key, but there are a lot of English learners anyways so I’m not sure it’ll really change it that much.[/quote]

It would have a higher FARMS rate than ASFS (23%). How high depends on how far immersion moves and how they draw the lines between two neighborhood schools at Key and ASFS (if that is what happens). I think 40-50% FARMS at new Key is a real possibility. Glebe, FWIW is at 15%, so not really a good comparison. [/quote]
It’ll be fine— contrary to what they say at school board meetings, no one at asfs is afraid of poor people.  Most people you talk to live in the neighborhood because of schools, specifically because of the diversity at asfs versus taylor.
They will likely draw some very gerrymandered looking boundaries if the FARMS rate for the current key zone is really 40-50%.  New asfs according to aps would have been 5-10% FARMS if they drew a logical boundary (this was one of their arguments for the swap).[/quote]

If both schools become neighborhood, they should definitely gerrymander to even out the FARMS rate between the two. Dumb not to when you have the opportunity at the outset. [/quote]

[b]I think the asfs neighborhood seems generally open to diversity.  Is this also true of the Rosslyn crew that seems to be a driving force behind the swap?  I don’t know the answer to the question, but I assume their attitude, whatever it may be, will impact how the boundaries are or are not gerrymandered.[/b][/quote]

[b]The swap originated with Lyon Village (they wanted to move and lock down the "science school" in their neighborhood) [/b]and were then joined by the Courthouse & Clarendon crew who also wanted to continue to go to the science school (and not be zoned to Longbranch).  They eventually recruited the Rosslyn crew with the whole, you'll have the "longest bus ride" mantra if you don't swap the schools.

It will be interesting to see how these groups start turning on each other as boundaries are discussed.  It, of course, would make sense to have diversity at both schools but the lobbying has already started to have all of Lyon Village go to the "new" school on Key Blvd, which would mean that many in Rosslyn would have to be bussed passed Key to ASFS, Taylor, etc. Remember all the bitterness in past threads about how, if a logical circle boundary was drawn around ASFS, it would create a new Taylor?  And the implication that it was the walkers around ASFS pushing for this (which, of course, made no sense since if they had wanted to go to a non-diverse school, they would have just gone to Taylor)?  Those posts were most likely coming from the Lyon Village crew who are worried that two neighborhood schools will split their neighborhood into the "Barrett" side and the ASFS side. [/quote]

You are a liar with some kind of twisted agenda you are pushing.

Go take your fiction & drama elsewhere. [/quote]

Guess you missed the meeting at the LV Community House between LV and Courthouse about the swap?  And the form letters supporting the swap that were circulated amongst their civic association members?
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Yes, go back and read those two form letters (one supporting the swap & one supporting two neighborhood schools) you'd see that the goal wasn't "to move and lock down the "science school" in their neighborhood".

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