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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parents at ASFS are insufferable.[/quote]

And disingenuous, at best. One of the speakers was at one of the information sessions I attended. Since I'm a white lady, I guess who was well dressed, I guess she thought she was in good company and let it fly. This lady was going on about the K-12 alignment and freaking out about an E/W split and the future K-12 vision. She was really angry that the anyone would even consider something other than a N/S split for attendance zones, and said there were already too many "Spanish" people in the Key zone, and that a N/S split was the right thing. The kicker: she has no current students at ASFS. But she does have a condo in Courthouse that will be worth a lot less if it's not zoned to ASFS. She could not care less about anything other than that, yet there she was, praising the diversity and worrying about the overcrowding that ASFS students will suffer. Lady, nope. Oh, the suffering. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. [/quote]

So at bottom, if this is accurate, it sounds like a concern that, after a move to east/west and the elimination of Key as an automatic option for ASFS/Key families, ASFS (or whatever it will be called) will become more diverse in terms of a greater number of Latino students?  Wow.  In favor of diversity/-yeah, right.[/quote]

Actually no. The most likely neighborhood zone will truncate the diverse bits (with apartments and some AH) that are in the east and south end of the zone ( mostly Rosslyn/Ft Myer) -- those will go to Long Branch or MAYBE Taylor (to mimic the Yorktown peninsula).

The neighborhood around ASFS, mostly Cherrydale, Maywood) will be FAR less diverse and thus ASFS diversity will drop.  [/quote]

That's not my takeaway from what I've read.[/quote]

What have you read about boundary changes? 
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There haven't been any proposed boundary changes yet. I assume PP was talking about demographics? Curious where you would find alternative info; mine is base in living in Rosslyn. [/quote]

As for demographics, the closer you get to ASFS, the less diverse you get. So if they are shifting and shrinking the boundary then diversity will fall.  I can't imagine what else she "read" to dispute this.

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I would think diversity, especially including Latino students, would increase.  That would be a good thing in my view.[/quote]

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