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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a few points of the Nottingham analogy. First, Nottingham was facing complete dissolution of the school. Not a boundary change. ASF is complaining about boundary shifts. Second, Nottingham did make an effort not to trash other schools/families/children.  And third, we did mock them pretty mercilessly (and appropriately) for their ridiculous petitions addressed to Beyer etc. 
That said, the ASF drama is far more embarrassing to all of you. Parents, principal, the teacher who showed up and picked sides at the SB meeting. You are all ruining the reputation of what used to be considered a nice school. Ick. [/quote]

Removing half the school is not far from dissolutions. Hardly just boundary shift. [/quote]

DP. It is a boundary shift. ASFS is current a neighborhood school and is expected to remain a neighborhood school. Nottingham was proposed to change to an option school, and would no longer exist as a neighborhood school. These are different things. No one said Nottingham was dissolved when Discovery opened and Nottingham lost almost 40% of its student population, because that would have been absurd.[/quote]

Build a brand new school closer to Rosslyn which won’t require 45 min bus rides and you won’t have complaints. Throw in a slide for the win. [/quote]

Maybe they'll consider that for the new school to be built for 2029. Still doesn't make the current redrawing a dissolution, though, you're being ridiculously dramatic here.[/quote]

My kids spending 5 hrs more a week on a bus b/c some parents feel it is their right to take over a school does not seem ridiculous.  And again, dislocation if half a school is more than a boundary shift, get real. [/quote]

You don’t even know that it will half the school so, again, you’re being ridiculously dramatic. And your kid spending less time on a bus probably comes at the expense of someone else’s kid spending more time on a bus, so all you’re saying here is that your child is more precious than anyone else’s. That doesn’t fly well with the people who need to balance everyone’s interests.[/quote]

Cherrydale to Taylor is about 30 minutes closer than Rosslyn to Taylor, so try again.[/quote]

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