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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now, buy into or at least rent in the KEY district.  That gives you guaranteed admissions.  They are supposedly some slots (if Key doesn't fill the grade) for Taylor or Jamestown, but those are like unicorns.  Watch out, though.  The SB might be making a lot of changes to that area.[/quote]

The boundary for ASFS is about to be radically changed -- there is No way to know if you will be in bound (currently living near it is not in boundary for example).

There is a [b]possibility that Key and ASFS will swap campuses [/b]since Key is becoming a pure lottery immersion, and then ASFS will be in boundary. Or they will redraw boundaries and some key parts will go elsewhere and some Taylor parts go to ASFS.

Buy a neighborhood you like, in a house you like near a few schools you are ok with. There are guarantees now. And watch the high school changes coming -- they could be disruptive. [/quote]

While this may very well happen, it would somewhat surprise me considering how much money the ASFS PTA and parents have invested in the building and its outdoor space over the years for various science-related teaching tools, including raising at least $150,000 less than two years ago for the science lab called investigation station.  Not saying Key, if the schools swap buildings, wouldn't benefit from all of this but it seems kind of crazy for ASFS to leave it all behind and have to start all over again without it.

I'm a former long time ASFS parent - do not move to a home just for this school.  Not worth it.[/quote]

Well, it is equipment in a publuc school, so it would be nice if others could have an opportunity to benefit from it.  But I highly doubt this switch will happen.  Both schools must probably feel like they are having the rug pulled out from under them.[/quote]

Well, the school board should have done something years ago. You can't have two "choice" programs that are essentially neighborhood schools, and give both to the same neighborhood in perpetuity. That's just bad policy. I understand why they did it this way at first, when conditions were such that anyone could enroll just about anywhere due to low enrollment. But to let it go this long was just kicking the can down the road and leaving it to others to deal with.

I don't think the schools are going to swap places. But there will have to be boundary adjustments (there would be anyway when the new school comes online). [/quote]
The key/asfs zone wasn't supposed to have boundary changes.   It's fine that they want to establish a walk zone and redistribute kids because of the policy change, but we shouldn't try to spin this as something that was well planned.  If aps had been thinking straight, they wouldn't have located a niche program like immersion at the only elementary school located with neighborhood bounds to begin with.   It would have been easier to have either originally placed the immersion program at the asfs building or drawn the key/asfs boundaries to include the neighborhood around asfs.   Now twenty years later they are like "oh this isn't really fair", and it's like no shit really?  [/quote]

What's not fair?  I have a very hard time seeing how Key will even reach 30 percent English speakers under the new proposal.[/quote]

Just because YOU bought in-bounds to Key so you could go to ASFS does not mean that there isn't countywide demand for Immersion at Key. I get it, you see no value in it. Guess what? A lot of families in other parts of Arlington disagree and will be more than happy to take a spot at Key. [/quote]

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