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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"In the case of ASFS, that is an unreasonable expectation. You aren't losing your walkable neighborhood school. It has not been a neighborhood school for decades now."

[b]Except that it was a neighborhood school (Page) for many decades before becoming ATS (briefly) and then ASFS. [/b] And when ASFS first started, anyone in the neighborhood (and county) could attend.  It wasn't until the Orange Line corridor exploded with young families and capacity became an issue that ASFS had to start turning folks away.  Most families who can walk have been allowed (until the last few years) to go to ASFS.

So big picture, it was and (arguably has been) a neighborhood school for more years when compared to the years it has been Key's alternative school.

For all those folks who moved close to Key because they were "guaranteed" to go to ASFS, that was a pretty big gamble.  Boundaries can change at any time.  Your best bet is to have Key move to Nottingham and then make Key a neighborhood school. [/quote]

[b]Like you said, that was decades ago. No one buying in that neighborhood then has ES-aged children now. [/b]

Agree that boundaries can change for anyone at any point. 
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True but many bought in the neighborhoods surrounding ASFS when the team was a viable, functioning option, which was still the case 3-4 years ago. [/quote]

Which circles back to the reality everyone is facing that none of us have a guarantee on which school our child attends. We are all fighting for our own schools, but the reality exists for all of us. Our neighborhood school is in our actual planning unit which is about as much of a guarantee as you can get. but has been on the table to turn into an option school. Talk about shock. [/quote]

Which brings ME back to the point that it is far less disruptive the Arlington community as a whole to take what has not been a neighborhood school, or at least not a neighborhood school for its actual neighbors, and make it an option, especially when there are not that many students in an effective walk zone. This school is ASFS. I know that both current Key and ASFS families don't want to move, but if anyone moves at all, it will be them. So which is the better situation for the majority of Arlington families and students: busting up three school communities, including one that has been a walkable neighborhood school for as long as anyone can remember (whether that is Nottingham, Ashlawn, or McKinley is immaterial), paying to move three sets of staff and any special equipment and/or artwork/or whatever that belongs to the program, OR swap two schools that are not very far apart and who already partner for sports teams, leaving their communities largely intact and not "taking away" a walkable neighborhood school from anyone who had any reasonable expectation of having one? [/quote]

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