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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s pretty likely that APS staff will recommend that Key be made a neighborhood school. The question is whether they will designate ASFS as an option site for a relatively easy switch since the majority of the kids at ASFS live in Key zone or if they will designate another site and trigger an all out war. [/quote]

My vote is for an all out war. My kids are past ES but I’m tired of having an ES in my neighborhood that almost no one who lives within walking distance is allowed to attend.  Frankly, I am tired of all the option schools. As many have said, they are a luxury we can no longer afford.[/quote]

I hope you will get people to go to open office hours with the school board 5-7 pm on Mondays. And send letters to Engage@apsva.us. They need to hear your voice to recommend change.[/quote]

You bought your house knowing you didn't have guaranteed access to ATS. They're not going to do away with the the option programs. But they might relocate them, so you're just advocating for your complaint to be shuffled to another neighborhood. NIMBY, what Bluemont does best.[/quote]

And yet another poster quick to criticize without reading the post, which had nothing to do with living in Bluemont or within walking distance of ATS or advocating shuffling an option program from one neighborhood to another.[/quote]

Again, you knew the deal when you bought near ASFS. It hasn't been a neighborhood school for THAT neighborhood for as long as anyone here has lived in Arlington.[/quote]

Actually, when we bought our house ASFS wasn’t a neighborhood school for anyone and anyone on the team could attend ASFS if they wanted. Plus anyone in Arlington could attend, APS just did not provide transportation. So, up until less than ten years ago there were kids at ASFS whose home schools were Glebe, Oakridge and Nottingham to name a few.  So the “deal” was quite different when I bought my house. [/quote]

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