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And now where are we? Key dug its heels in that it did not want to move to ASFS, so it's safe to assume it will not want to move to another location. Maybe if the SB/APS had approached Key offline and gotten their input upfront about location, etc., things could have progressed more smoothly.  But here we are with immersion not wanting to leave Key and an area that desperately needs more neighborhood seats.  . [/quote]

I think this is a bit of revisionist history.  APS tried to engage the Key community during the location review process a few years ago. They asked what the concerns were, published data regarding where spanish speakers were clustered- etc.  But Key dug in its heels at that point, wouldn't engage, took a 'h@@ no we won't go' approach, and tried to argue that they should be exempt from the location review process- despite the fact that everyone else was on the list. 
It was in response to the location review behavior that caused Murphy to come out with a 'this is my decision, your moving' approach.
It became very clear to me based on how Key parents were acting- that alot of them had in fact picked Key based on location- not immersion- but liked what they had, and were not going to listen to any other options.   They choose to go down the conspiracy- someone is trying to steal our school- approach rather than a rational discussion of what is best for the future of immersion education in APS.  [/quote]

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