Reply to Arlington Science Focus -- Admissions?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Arlington Science Focus -- Admissions?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends who paid inflated prices to buy in the Key district so they could send their kids to ASFS are shaking in their boots right now.  I understand their concern, but it never seemed fair to be able to pay to play.[/quote]
How is picking a house because of its assigned school "pay to play"?  ASFS was their neighborhood school -- if you look at real estate listings, that's what it says.  If you call aps to confirm school districts, that's where they say your neighborhood school is.  [/quote]

Yeah - I don't understand this argument either. A few of my friends moved into the Discovery zone because they wanted their kids to go there. One friend loved Tuckohoe and moved there. What's the difference? ASFS was never a "choice" school. [/quote]
Yes, i think that this is where the big disconnect is.  People who lived outside of Key/ASFS viewed ASFS and Key as "choice" schools within the team.  By that reasoning, Taylor was a "choice" school and so was Jamestown.  ASFS was always a neighborhood school (or at least it was for the past five years that I've lived in that zone and had kids there).  80% of the kids that attend there live in the Key/ASFS neighborhood.  APS staff always called it our neighborhood school (for example when I was doing early intervention).  I've had three kids at that school over the past five years, and I can say without a doubt that there is nothing different about the curriculum other than an extra hour of science a week.  They have a couple of extra science activities during the year, like outside the box day, but I don't think its as emphasized as people claim it is here.  Its super diverse and very academically rigorous, which is why we chose to live there and send our kids there, but its just a neighborhood school that for some reason sits outside its neighborhood.  I would totally support it switching buildings with key (assuming all of the administration and teachers transferred as well) because then it would sit in the neighborhood.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics