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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The grief against Cherrydale wanting to have ASFS as its neighborhood school are ridiculous.  Almost every single opinion on all of these threads regarding boundary changes are by people who want walk walkable neighborhood schools. Why should some people in the Cherrydale and Virginia Square and parts of Lyon Village neighborhoods not want the same.  They live within walking distance of ASFS,not too  long ago easily were able  to attend it or at least had a chance but are now shut out. Many bought houses when it was still an option for them. They want what the rest of us want.[/quote]

[b]Walkable is code [/b]for wanting your kids to go to the school that you think you "bought" into.

I agree with others that ASFS should be countywide. There's no reason that any choice school should only be for part of the county. It smacks of this whole North/South thing that DCUM perpetuates. [/quote]

It's not code.  With the exception of a few lottery schools, the APS system is based on neighborhood schools.  Although no one is ever promised that they won't be rezoned elsewhere, it is not an unreasonable expectation of people who have bought in Arlington over the last 50yrs that their child will be attending the school that is probably closest to their home.  Might still mean a bus ride, but the closest.

Right now APS is working from presumptions that option schools still have a place in Arlington, and that any hint of putting them where there is space but that is more difficult to access by lower SES families is problematic.  That certainly rules out options.  Put them where there's actually space in NW, and you're too far from poor people.  Put all choice in S Arl and you're taking away poor people's access to neighborhood schools.  Put the lottery schools in the largest elementary schools and hope that enough families will want to lottery in when the smaller neighborhood schools are filled, and you're presuming that lottery schools should take precedence over neighborhood communities.

This process is so whacked right now.[/quote]

Fair point. I think there should be more done though to make all the schools similar - though I know buses send chills down everyone's spine (even mine). I know froma ttending the meetings that even the "team schools" concept didn't work - that's how ASFS got to where it is. Arlington is small, landwise - I think we could figure something out though.

Just wait until the next round of high school rezoning - there's a lot of ideas on the table.[/quote]

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