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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.

However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

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thanks for the accurate description [/quote]

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room. [/quote]

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic.  We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says.  They are deceitful and detached from reality.  They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.
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It’s true the Clardndon/Courthouse/Rosslyn parents did not originally support expanding into the Buck property/Cherrydale.Their efforts were concentrated on moving/swapping ASFS with Key to establish ASFS as their neighborhood school. When the SB took moving option schools off the table this past spring, their tune suddenly changed. Again, anything not to be rezoned to Long Branch or Taylor. Also why they are so desperate to maintain the current boundaries- they are hoping that they can still push for a Key/ASFS swap in 2021. If boundaries change now, though, they won’t be able to say “but it’s our neighborhood school not theirs” anymore, which was a main argument for their swap position.[/quote]

But why? What is wrong with either Taylor or Long Branch? I’m so baffled by this whole thing, it’s batshit even by APS standards.[/quote]

What’s so bad about going to Taylor or Long Branch? Rosslyn parents cannot be this fanatic over ASFS, can they?[/quote]
[b]There is no way to get to either Long Branch or Taylor through metro or bus.  Many families in the ne quadrant don’t own cars.  Picking up from extended day would be impossible and a lot of people would probably move.[/b]  [/quote]

But isn’t that true of ASFS too? It’s a mile from the Metro. Although there are buses down Lee Highway, you still have to walk a quarter mile to the school. Route 50 buses seem more manageable. And if it’s too hard to get to Extended Day, the more sensible solution would be to find after school care once they get off the bus, ie, a babysitter pick-up, etc. I know lots of parents who do after school babysitter shares. Extended day is a great option for working parents but it’s not the only option. [/quote]

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