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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

1. You don't have to be in the current school zone to speak to the school board about where the school's boundaries should be. Anyone is allowed to opine about the boundaries anywhere. As a Discovery parent, I am perfectly within my rights to speak to the school board about where I think the Fleet boundaries should be. It is up to the school board member to decide whether my suggestions make sense.

2a. ASFS's PTA is governed by the National PTA, and as such is not allowed to limit its membership to only current school families; the National PTA requires that every member PTA "shall be open, without discrimination, to anyone who believes in and supports the mission and purposes of National PTA." You don't even need to have kids to be allowed to join a PTA. Thus, those other families who felt they had an interest in ASFS PTA governance (such as because they expected they may be members of the school community in the future) were perfectly within their rights to join the ASFS PTA.

2b. Any alleged bullying (which, based on your post, appears to have been committed by current ASFS community members rather than by these outside members) is the sole responsibility of those doing the actual bullying.

3. See 1.[/quote]

Discovery parent, my a$$.

I’m sure So Arlington parents would welcome suggestions from a No Arlington parent on their bondaries, you are a piece of work.

You don’t join a school PTA you don’t attend with the intention of influencing the leadership and election. Sure you want to know when the class Picnic is, great.

And the parents in rosslyn being pushed out are generally two working families of much more limited means and making the PTA is much more of a challlenge.  [/quote]

Yes, I am a Discovery parent. And when I said in an earlier post that both sides were insufferable at times, this is you being insufferable.

When boundaries are drawn, ASFS will be within its own boundary. The school board has been very clear about this, so the boundaries will have to change to accommodate it. Most likely planning unit 23170 will be as well since it's definitively within the ASFS walk zone. Based on the location review analysis, these two planning units will fill only about 18% of the school's capacity, leaving 82% to be filled by other planning units. There are a lot of different ways boundaries can be drawn to fill that 82%, so stop losing your head about how including those two planning units in ASFS means everyone in Rosslyn is going to be kicked out, because you simply do not know this to be true and screaming it anyway makes you look like a lunatic.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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