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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully the school board won’t cave to the ASF parents.  Key has been in its current building forever, and it’s location has helped the program flourish.  It is also a large and growing program,  and it would be nearly impossible to find another location where it would fit.  ASF suffers overcrowding like all APS schools, but they shouldn’t be allowed to just pick and choose their building and all others be damned.[/quote]

Seems like the most vocal people at ASFS don’t want to move at all. Many people would be fine either way (stay or move). But ASFS certainly isn’t PUSHING for a swap. What on earth gave you that idea?
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Um, quite a lot of the people at ASFS who would be in the walk zone for Key or think they would be in the attendance zone for Key want a swap.  A swap put them at Key with all of the science equipment the PTA apparently has bought over the years.  So, yes, a majority (really, overwhelming majority) want a swap.  If they both become a neighborhood school, the science stuff stays where it is and they are in the Key building without it.  [/quote]

So for their own selfish benefit...[/quote]

Look, I live on the southern side of Rosslyn and just want to have my neighborhood school reasonably close to my house. They can leave the science lab for all I care. [/quote]

All of us want that. Not all of us are going to get it.[/quote]

It just seems selfish that there is a vocal group of people at ASFS who want this swap to happen on the premise that they may get to take the science stuff with them.  I don't think the staff at ASFS are in favor of moving, so it's like parents against the school, yet they still want the staff to teach their kids?[/quote]

That's not true.  All staff/teachers I've talked to have been supportive.  Some of them have been teaching this community for 20+ years, so they really see it as staying with the group of kids that they currently teach.  If they redraw boundaries around ASFS, the overwhelming majority of the school will no longer be zoned for it.  That's sad.  Because then the overwhelming majority of Taylor will have to be rezoned to make room for the Key kids, and then those kids will have to go to other schools too.  [/quote]

Why are the staff/teachers supportive of a move?  What benefit is it to them if they change buildings?

Also, "that's sad" is an emotion and emotions aren't a part of the calculation.

As far as I know, unless ASFS teachers stay with their cohorts from Kindergarten on, each year kids change teachers.  So why would it matter if teachers wanted to stay with a group of kids?  Just so they can high five them in the hallway?[/quote]
So here are raw numbers.
The MAJORITY of ASFS (500+/650) are from the key zone because that was the mainstream curriculum option— it was their neighborhood school.  There are 200 transfers into asfs that are mostly from Taylor (the majority of which are not within any form of its walk zone, these kids are being bused in), which is why the school is over capacity.  Taylor is only 103% at capacity, whereas asfs is 125%. If the transfers were sent home, the school would be at or under capacity.  There are 10 buses to the school.
The majority of kids at the key school are not from the key zone.  Only 1/3 to 1/2 of the school lives in the key zone, and even less of that within the walk zone.  There are 12 buses to the school.
If you make a boundary around asfs, in order to connect it to the existing key boundary so you have some existing kids still at the school, you have to rezone 300+ kids from Taylor.  Someone can check my math, but that’s over half of Taylor.   Since the asfs walk zone is small, there will still be 8 buses to the school.  And there will still be 12 buses going to key because it’s population won’t change.
If you make key into a neighborhood school, and move an option program to asfs, you have 10 buses going to asfs and significantly fewer buses going to key (I think something like 2-3).  It is much more efficient.  And you get to preserve the existing key, asfs, and Taylor communities.
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Makes sense.  And that’s why the move will happen, I think.[/quote]

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