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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no credible reason for moving Key.[/quote]

Other than every criteria for a neighborhood school developed by the board thus far in the process? The only reason not to have that building as neighborhood is inertia.[/quote]

The board didn’t create those criteria, the staff did. The board has sent them back to redo it with more considerations.[/quote]

There’s an area at the edge of the county with a rapidly growing population and no neighborhood school. We have a building in the neighborhood that hundreds of kids could walk to, but none of them are guaranteed admission, though as recently as a year ago they were. There are no schools nearby that these kids can go to instead. Additionally, this particular area has a lot of families that are transit dependent at all income levels. Those are the reasons for a neighborhood school, what are your reasons for it to remain option?[/quote]

They could switch it with ASFS if it’s that building that’s an issue. Beyond that, my real problem is not with Key or any other specific building, it’s that this is a fundamentally flawed process that isn’t going to solve problems, it would just move them around and maybe they would be lesser afterward, but they also might be worse. There is virtually no place in Arlington that can spare the neighborhood seats required for an option school, so the option schools necessarily overburden their neighbors while limiting flexibility to provide relief in to those neighborhoods. If we’re going to have option programs (and I do think we should), I think they need to revisit the hybrid model for those schools to allow them to spread across the county in a more balanced way. If they go through this process and make big changes, they won’t be able to justify the expense of developing a better plan any time soon.[/quote]

That's a very different statement than there's no credible reason for moving Key. Basically what you are saying is that the status quo works well for you and you are afraid that you will be negatively impacted by changes. So your preferred better plan is to develop hybrid programs? From my understanding, that has not really worked well when tried in APS and they are getting rid of it at Drew. [/quote]

You're talking to two different posters, I'm not the one who said there's no credible reason for moving Key. I'm also not saying the status quo is working well for me (we're also at a school that's over capacity, it's just not Key/ASFS), what I'm saying is that the initial staff analysis makes clear there will be no good proposal coming out of it that actually solves problems for the system as a whole rather than simply moving the problem around. So sure, make that move and make the families in the Key/ASFS who want to stay in the neighborhood instead of moving with Key happy, but then piss off at least as many families who are hurt by that decision. For the SB, that's not a winning solution. But it'll be an expensive one, so their options for fixing the new problems it creates will be limited in the short-term. I want the SB to find a good solution to this (whether it's hybrid schools or not) rather than waste our money on a bad one that can't be readily fixed for the sake of saying they did *something*.[/quote]

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