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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Previously, families zoned for Key (Spanish immersion) could transfer to Science Focus automatically. This year, Science Focus is now a “neighborhood” school and Key becomes countywide option.  The 569 indicates that many kids chose NOT to do immersion and wanted a neighborhood kind of school. It indicates we would have 569 kids in the Jey neighborhood - most who could walk if that school were a neighborhood school.[/quote]

Ok, so it sounds like the vast majority of Lyon Village families in the Key/ASFS zone were choosing ASFS.[/quote]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think most (maybe all) of Lyon Village is zoned Taylor, not Key.[/quote]
Half of Lyon Village is zoned for Key, the other for Taylor.
First PP is right -- by default the majority of the Key neighborhood went to ASFS because they either could not or did not want to do immersion.  You cannot force someone to do immersion -- there has to be a regular run of the mill neighborhood school.  The vast majority of the school at science focus is is from the key zone, because that was the neighborhood school for that zone.  Literally 3/4 of the school lives in the key zone.  You never had to lottery in from key -- you just showed them a lease/deed and registered.  Saying that Science Focus was not Key's neighborhood school because of the team schools is like saying that taylor never had a neighborhood school, or that jamestown didn't.   You can argue that there was some "team" designation when people bought their houses, but honestly I live in Courthouse/Clarendon, and I never thought that I would have guaranteed admission into Taylor.  I would have bought in the Taylor zone if I wanted to go there.  
If you don't want to move immersion to the asfs site because people in that neighborhood are sick of having a school in their neighborhood that they can't go to, that's fine.  But it doesn't benefit the majority of kids who currently go to that school (since they live in the key neighborhood and would not be zoned for science focus), and it doesn't benefit the majority of kids who currently go to key immersion since the immersion program would likely get moved somewhere further away.  The only way I can see ASFS staying where it is is if they decide to swap immersion with long branch.   Even if they did that though, asfs would not serve the majority of kids that currently attend it.  
Stuff like that really makes me wonder where the asfs administration's head is when they yell at parents at pta meetings about even suggesting swapping school sites.  They obviously don't care about the current school population at all.

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