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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]

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]

More importantly, allocation of construction funds is part of a public process.  We can complain  to the board about the wastefulness of the slide and advocate for better use of resources in the future.  When  rich parents start privately funding the infrastructure of the school their children attend, the legality can get murky.  Buying some books for the library or helping the teachers with everyday supplies is much different than dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars to make your child’s school technologically and educationally superior to its south Arlington counterparts.  That can actually get a school district in trouble.  As most of us know, not every neighborhood PTA in Arlington is primed to raise that kind of money.[/quote]

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