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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seem to recall the First Amendment specifically protects the right to petition the government. Surely no one here would advocate for anyone's Constitutional rights to be constrained based on the substance of their advocacy.[/quote]

I think the PP point was that just because other parents from your school advocate on behalf of their child does not necessarily mean they are also advocating against someone else.  it is possible to simply advocate for what you want for your child alone without saying something about someone else's child.[/quote]

I wasn't taking issue with that person's post, but rather with 16:07 who made the original complaint about people meeting with SB members to discuss boundaries, as if that were somehow inherently inappropriate.[/quote]

i agree with you and add that maybe folks should not think the worse of others - just because parents are meeting with SB members does not necessarily mean they are saying something bad about other people - they may just be talking about their own children [/quote]

So a few things are of note:
1.  The people meeting with the school board do not attend asfs.  They met in a large group (20-30 parents), and about half of them either were rising k children or parents of kids that currently attend Taylor.    
2.  These same non-asfs parents joined the asfs pta en masse to influence the asfs pta election.  Who knows what theirmotivation was there.  I can’t think of any good reason why people with child age kids would join a pta for a school they do not currently attend.  When a large number of actual current asfs parents asked where these random parents came from, those current asfs parents were bullied by members of the cherrydale parents who have kids at asfs.  Imagine mean texts, verbal cut downs at soccer games and school events, telling their kids that they aren’t allowed to play with so and so because that kids parents are trying to destroy the school. Totally  inappropriate behavior.  I don’t care what your personal stance on this is, but bullying is not right and this is not important enough to invite strangers into our community.
3.  These same non-asfs parents showed up at pta meetings that school board meetings were present.  At those meetings they kept lamenting: “those kids from the key zone are overcrowding our school.  They’re taking resources from the rest of our kids.  You promised us a walk zone.”  Keep in mind these parents don’t have kids at asfs.  I can’t imagine anyone who is an actual member of the community saying those hurtful borderline racist things!

This behavior is at best strange and at worst unhinged. So yes both side is insufferable, but the parents from the walk zone crossed so many lines.[/quote]

how can you join the PTA if you are neither a parent or a teacher?

I have heard a similar story from several sources. It’s fine to advocate for your kid, but to push for other neighbors kids is beyond the pale.

And please getting from Rosslyn to Taylor be Cherrydale to Taylor is a whole ‘nother beast.

Having this an issue for 2019 and 2021 is terrible , b/c you get two chances for strife to form [/quote]

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