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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love being schooled by a parent without kids at the school about the reason people attend the school.  You can play your math game all you want, but maybe try interacting with the human beings who are making the choices at issue before claiming you’ve figured it all out from a transfer report.  [/quote]

You’ve convinced me. Location doesn’t matter. So immersion can move to Nottingham and still thrive (that’s closer than Gunston to most of Arl)[/quote]

LOL, immersion to Nottingham isn’t going to happen.  Keep dreaming.[/quote]

You literally said location doesn’t matter. [/quote]

[b]I’m not pp, I just think it’s dumb how people have latched onto Nottingham after the failed attempt to move an option program there, during which the staff explicitly said they would not move immersion there.[/quote][/b]

Um, did you miss everything that happened last spring?  When APS issued its first analysis and said ASFS should become an option and Key should become a neighborhood school?  And then three weeks later said, nope, ASFS and Key should both be neighborhood schools?  And issued update after update over the summer that ASFS, as a neighborhood school, would be getting new boundaries in 2019?  But then the week before school started announced that Murphy was invested with the power of god and unequivocally moving Key to ASFS???

The spreadsheet leaked last spring said ASFS and Nottingham would both become options.  APS has tried twice to move Key to ASFS and failed but I have no doubt they will try again (rumor has it that the staff is still pushing hard but the SB is not so enamored with the idea anymore). Just because Nottingham escaped the option dance once, you shouldn’t feel totally comfortable that APS won’t try again.  It ain’t over til it’s over.  And we’ve got until Dec. 2020 before any “final” decisions “have” to be made.[/quote]

They need seats in the east, swap doesn’t help that so why still pushing??[/quote]
Because logically, the swap should have had the least resistance from current families.  
From an ASFS perspective:  entire school moves, boundaries stay largely the same, curriculum stays the same.  There was a lot of concerns about the lab not moving meaning that the science program would end, but frankly there's nothing to say that a new school at key would have any science curriculum at all, since it would be a brand new school with new principal/etc.  Switching locations was the least risky.

From a Key perspective: entire school moves about 3/4 mile down the road, with less than a 2 minute bus ride change for everyone.  The native spanish speakers who picked key because of its location can go to either the neighborhood school at key or the immersion program at asfs (which is their current neighborhood school).  Yes it is disruptive because there are new classrooms and there is a potential that a large chunk of the school doesn't move, but its significantly less disruptive than moving the school to a random office building or to carlin springs or barrett.

APS did a horrible job with conveying this to anyone -- and they were so focused on the cf that was the south arlington boundaries that they didn't kill any of the fake news surrounding it.  [/quote]

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