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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why those living in the current Key zone "have" to swap with ASFS to maintain their community (which seems spread out with folks who transferred in from Taylor and Jamestown under the old Team model)?  If they both became neighborhood schools, a majority would still go to the new "Key" and could walk.  ASFS could easily fill those seats with folks from Taylor and Glebe (which is going to have to be slightly adjusted since they have over 100% walkers), plus there is a new apartment complex going along Kirkwood where the old Sport and Health used to be that would bring more walkers to ASFS.   Or keep the schools where they are and keep Lyons Village at ASFS and just move the Rosslyn kids (who don't want to go/don't lottery into Key) and the few kids who live in Clarendon to Long Branch?  If you're in Rosslyn, it's easy to jump on 50 to get to Long Branch (and the Clarendon folks are just as close to Long Branch as Key or ASFS).  [/quote]

I agree that they could easily fill both ASFS and Key with neighborhood kids. ASFS could pull from Taylor, Glebe, Long Branch, and that weird jag of Ashlawn. For the long term it's the solution that makes the most sense. It's a hard sell, though, because many people have reasons to hate it and show up to board meetings in color coordinated shirts:

1. That would mean moving immersion and the immersion program does not want to move. Green shirts.
2. Creating a neighborhood school at Key means another neighborhood school has to cease to exist. Its current students would need to go elsewhere. Red shirts.
3. Some of the people pulled into the ASFS boundary might not want to be there. Not coordinated enough to pick a color, but certainly loud. 
4. The new Key zone school would have a higher FARMS rate than ASFS. It might go up to 40% or so, based on my back of the envelope calc, but it could be higher or lower. I would be a parent at the new school and I'm fine with that, but let's recognize that it might be an issue for some people. Again, no shirt color because they won't self identify. Will be more stealthy.

I also agree Long Branch isn't too bad from Rosslyn if Key stays immersion, much better than Taylor!! But. Are they really going to have room at Long Branch for an extra 200 kids? I have doubts. [/quote]

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