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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And to save you all some time, here is a link to the map. http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/168/ES%202016%20Offical%20Map%2001222015.pdf

I am guessing the Taylor parent above would be going to the Science Focus building (and therefore not crossing Lee Highway) if it had not been taken out of commission as a neighborhood school years ago and turned into a "choice" school program.  The locations of these programs does not make a lot of sense now.[/quote]

Taylor parent here.  Yep, ASFS is 4 blocks away.[/quote]

Right, but ASFS is now a neighborhood school, in essence, for the Key Boundary. So whether it's a choice school or neighborhood school, it would not be the school you are zoned for, right? Again, it stinks to be on the edge of the boundary, where you'd need a bus (or have an unsafe walk) to school. But at least if ASFS is a choice school, there's a chance you might be able to attend. If it were a neighborhood school, it still wouldn't be your neighborhood school, right?

We need to invest more in making it safer for all kids to get to all schools (by foot and bike if they want), because we can't possibly build enough schools for everyone to be within a couple blocks of their elementary school. Not even a neighborhood-schools-only model can accomplish that.[/quote]

I'm not the Taylor parent, but if ASFS were still a true neighborhood school, then someone living within 4 blocks of it would be zoned for it. I agree that you always have people who live on a boundary and will need to bus, but the point of neighborhood schools is that anyone who truly lived within walking distance would be zoned to that building. ASFS is not a neighborhood school-- it is an alternative to people who don't want immersion at Key, because again, the choice model doesn't really work in an overcrowded school system.[/quote]

You would think that, but that's not how they really draw boundaries. I have friends who are walkable to Patrick Henry (6 blocks are so) but zoned to Barcroft, which would be a 30 minute walk or more for their small children.

I live in the Key/ASFS neighborhood, and both are our neighborhood schools (we walk to Key). [/quote]

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