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Make ASFS the neighborhood school for Cherrydale instead of putting those kids on a bus. Make Taylor the neighborhood school for Lyon Village. A lot of LV families will decide to send their kids to Key just to have a geographically convenient school, the way Ashlawn and McKinley-zoned families apply to ATS not because they are in love with the program but because dropoff is on the way to work. [/quote]

THIS!! Key (for my family) is super convenient for drop-off/pick-up than the Taylor which is a rather far distance (plus, opposite to my commuting direction) from where we live (zoned for Taylor but closer to Key).  [/quote]

Except most families don't want immersion. Most just want a regular neighborhood school.

With so many kids concentrated right there (from Rosslyn to Clarendon) it makes the most sense to make the Key building a neighborhood school to minimize busing. [/quote]

Okay, but what if the kids who are concentrated from Rosslyn to Clarendon would prefer Immersion to neighborhood school? I mean, not to be crass, but I think the reason Key even became an Immersion school in the first place was because of the high number of Latino students in the vicinity. If those students are still there in large enough numbers, I don't think it makes sense to move the Immersions program further away from them.[/quote]

Agreed on this. Plus the lower-income parents (who statistically include more of the Latino parents) are much more likely to need to use public transportation due to lack of a car, so Key's location near the Metro is helpful.[/quote]

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