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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please stop calling ASFS a neighborhood school.  That implies it serves its surrounding neighborhood.  There is NO walk zone for ASFS-- all of the homes around ASFS are zoned for other schools (mostly Taylor) so EVERY student "zoned" for ASFS has to be bussed in.  Anyone living in the ASFS "neighborhood" has to beg for a transfer to be let in.

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Really - Every single student at the school has to be bussed in? From where, pray tell? You certainly can't go to Science Focus from our neighborhood. I'm sorry your kids can't walk to school 4 blocks away, but ASFS pretty much does serve its surrounding area. How many kids from the Tuckahoe and Jamestown zones go there? Can families from Carlin Springs or Patrick Henry apply too? It is not a choice school. [/quote]

My kids are in high school now so I have no dog in this fight but, no, ASFS absolutely does not serve its surrounding area and even as recently as 2 years ago, APS did not consider ASFS a neighborhood school and still had procedures in place that allowed for even out of team students to attend.  Obviously, thanks to overcrowding throughout most of Arlington, ASFS has become the elementary school for those living in the Roslyn and Courthouse areas, as well as some planning units in Lyon Villege close to Courthouse.  But the people living in Lyon Village within about half a mile from ASFS are zoned for Taylor, as are those within 4-5 blocks of ASFS in Cherrydale and Virginia Square.

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Um, Key is still also the elementary school for people in that area.  Maybe rich white people are just afraid of immersion.  Who knows.[/quote]

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