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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s official! They are moving the science lab. Praise Jesus.[/quote]

I just read that on arl news now.  [/quote]

If ASFS were still a semi-option program, they could probably justify hoarding a $200k facility perk that was privately funded, with the rationale that everyone in the county could theoretically seek admission to that school.  As a strictly neighborhood school, a $200k perk not made available to other elementary schools starts to feel very unequal.  I wonder if the board has fully considered the legal implications of this.[/quote]

Please, have you seen the slide and then HALF DOZEN playground structures discovery has?  And that WAS funded by APS.

ASFS has a rusty old rinky dink play structure. I would gladly swap play structures which kids use almost everyday vs a once a week science lab.

There are a lot of perks at each school that others don’t have. And again, the SLIDE! [/quote]

[b]Because a slide contributes so much to the quality of edcuation. According to a friend at Discovery, it doesn’t even get used very often. It was a dumb and wasteful idea from the beginning, but it’s not like it’s some huge advantage Discovery has over the rest of us.[/quote][/b]

Seriously, no worries.  No one will be using that lab in a few years.  Part of why APS is pushing the swap so hard is that they've been trying to get Mary Begley to turn the lab into two classrooms for the last few years (plus the room that houses the space shuttle).  Basically, ASFS is wasting three classrooms, or 75 seats, with its science stuff.  Even though Key is bigger, it's not like it has so much extra room the they can waste 2-3 of its classrooms on recreating the lab and shuttle.  Maybe they could make the Key trailer the "science trailer" but that means sticking with Key's 653 permanent seats.  But with the growth in this area, it's not prudent to waste 2-3 classrooms on a science lab.  I think the PP is right, they'll move some of the tables and equipment but they are not going to recreate that entire lab, in its current state, in the Key building. But APS has to say that to the parents now to keep them simmered down.  By the time they get around to moving, they'll be so many other things to worry about (like faculty retention, etc.) no one is really going to make that big of a deal that the "lab" gets put in a corner somewhere.[/quote]

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