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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids in the Key zone already have a choice between ASFS or Key.  What are you nervous about?[/quote]

Key is going to be all lottery, ASFS is going to be a regular neighborhood school rather than a choice school. The boundaries are going to change, though the specifics are unclear at this point. Basically there will no longer be a Key zone, it will be split between the other schools, included ASFS.[/quote]

ASFS has never been a choice school. It has been and will continue to be a neighborhood elementary. The only difference is kids who live near Key will no longer be guaranteed a spot at the school, and any family in N Arlington interested in Immersion will have a better shot at getting in. Now that may mean ASFS will have to absorb the extra n'hood kids that Key was educating, but that's a separate issue. The rules on choice schools needed to be streamlined. [/quote]

I am so sick of reading on this forum that ASFS was never a choice school, always a neighborhood school.  This is patently false.  The school is a little over 20 years old - not that old. It’s first 10 years at least it was most certainly a choice school and kids from all over Arlington could attend, there just wasn’t bus transportation.  My 2 kids were zoned for Oakridge and attended ASFS.[/quote]

Sorry, but that is incorrect.  ASAF was never a choice school and you just proved it in your comment.  Choice schools always provide transportation.  Neighborhood transfers do not provide transportation.  Just because your kids got a transfer from Oakridge doesn't make ASFS a choice school.  ASFS is not and has never been choice.  It did have a team arrangement, but it was still always a neighborhood school.
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It's hard to have a reasonable discussion about the future when people keep arguing about the past.  Reality is that APS put an exemplary project at ASAP when it reopened and was designated a neighborhood school.  APS also complicated things with the boundary by allowing guaranteed access to a couple other schools.  Many ASFS  parents wanted the school to have the same status as ATS, but it never did.  it was never designated choice, nor was it given all of the things that go with that, such as transportation.  These are the facts whether people like them or not.

Fast forward and it is all moot.  ASFS is the same as all other neighborhood schools with an exemplary project.  Key is no longer choice with a neighborhood component. It is only choice and any non-immersion students will go to a different school.[/quote]

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