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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Nottingham and Key either sink or swim together here.  If they don’t want to be displaced, they need to work together to jointly show why moving programs around isn’t the only path in this boundary process.   For example, restoring neighborhood preference at Key is something Nottingham should be advocating for more than just about anything if they want their school to stay a neighborhood school. Trying to show why Tuckahoe or Discovery are better candidates probably doesn’t get them very far.  Bashing choice programs isn’t going to end choice programs.  If Key doesn’t move because it (with ASFS) provides adequate local seats, however, the chain reaction that threatens to displace Nottingham doesn’t happen.[/quote]

RESTORING NEIGHBORHOOD PREFERENCE AT KEY IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN NOR WOULD IT SOLVE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the situation was completely inequitable- that if you had the funds to buy into the Key neighborhood you had the guaranteed choice of two schools, whereas the rest of the county had to compete for limited immersion seats.
This was a unanimous decision of the school board just last year.  This is not going to change.  [/quote]

And here is the Cherry Dale parents who started this whole mess  they were bitter about not being able to afford Lyon Village.

By the way, there was no enroll in crisis before this preference change, Key had just started having a wait list for out of bounds, and science focus is fine with  trailers.[/quote]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  By all means attack someone's motive if you don't have a good argument.  And by the way you are completely wrong-- I am a KEY parent.  I stand to suffer from the move.  And actually- numerous families were boxed out of Claremont b/c of the neighborhood preference.  With the growth it meant they were going to be boxed out of Key too- the system could see it coming.
Yes- Claremont families have been let into Key- but that was not a solution b/c APS refused to provide them transportation, and only let them in at the last minute when extended day was full.  So to take advantage of that you had to have the resources to get your kids to school every day and find childcare outside of extended day.  
I am so so sick of my fellow Key parents being so completely tone deaf on this one.  [/quote]

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