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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than pissing off every group of parents possible by changing and moving and reconfiguring option programs, I wish they would devote all of their attention to creating new seats through land acquisition and construction.  The limited benefits of shuffling programs and changing program focus shouldn’t be anyone’s priority right now!  If they spend multiple school board meetings exploring the relative value of traditional education vs IB without showing how such a change will have a meaningful contribution to alleviating the capacity crisis, they’re focusing on the wrong thing.[/quote]

Agree, but we're running out of time.  They have to redo boundaries when Reed opens in 2021 and APS (stupidly, imo) ended the team model for ASFS, Key, etc. and made ASFS a neighborhood school.  They've got to do something with ASFS and the Key attendance zone-- even if they keep the Key attendance zone for ASFS (i.e., say, hey, we know it's weird that ASFS' attendance zone doesn't include the school but we've got to keep it that way for a few more years until we can find space for a new school), it still wouldn't work.  The Key zone has too many kids for ASFS so they are going to have to re-boundary kids regardless.  Plus, it goes against everything APS purports to promote (walkability, continuity, etc.). APS created a real mess when they got rid of the neighborhood preference for Key-- although I think they did that to shrink the neighborhood attendance in anticipation of moving the program (if everyone commutes, then who cares where they move Key).

At the end of the day, that area needs two neighborhood schools and since APS won't be able (nor seems to have any plans) to acquire space for a new elementary school, the they really need to move Immersion somewhere else.  It made no sense to move the Key program to ASFS other than APS was banking on there being less parent protests (since the current ASFS families would probably be happy to have ASFS move to the Key building).[/quote]

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