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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The asfs principal is perfectly fine with the majority of her school population being sent to different communities.  Just saying.[/quote]

As a future Key parent, you don't speak for me.  I want to be able to walk to Key school with my kids, not bus them to a school outside our walk zone.  Sounds like the current asfs walk-zone parents want the same thing I do.  This would be great if more of us have a walk-able school in the Rosslyn to VA Square area.[/quote]
I think you misread pp.  I think that pp was saying that the asfs principal is a bad principal because she obviously has no attachment to her current student population.
I’m assuming you have a rising k that lotteried into key? 
Because if you don’t have a rising k, then you should know that unless they change the status quo, you will not have a walkable school.  Plain and simple.
And just so you know, there are 11 current kids from the asfs walk zone that go to asfs.  Out of 653. Assuming siblings account for some of them, you are talking about 5 or 6 families.  
I’m all for people walking to school, but those yellow shirt wearing jerks do not speak for the entire asfs community, and they should not have pretended like they did.   And unless you are advocating for key staying where it is, you do not want the same as those people.  Because they want a Lilly white school where all the poor kids  who had the nerve to live in the key zone and go to their school get sent some place else like Taylor or long branch.  [/quote]

The transfer for rate into ASFS is over 20%, so there are a lot more than just 5 or 6 families that live outside the Key attendance zone that go to ASFS.  And, because of the old Team school model, those families could have attended a less diverse school like Taylor or Jamestown. So these accusations that these families obviously want to have a "Lilly white school" are ridiculous.  Also, every thread I've seen complaining about ASFS being divided up, etc., says that 90% of the school will now have to go to the "new" neighborhood Key school. Well, if 90% is going to the new school, doesn't that mean all of the current diversity is being preserved at the "new" school?  Maybe the staff and principal won't be the same, but the community will be the same, so what is the issue?  Are people at ASFS really mad that the principal and staff don't want to uproot everything to move with the "current population"?  The same population that will be gone in a few years?

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Yes the transfer rate into asfs is around 13-15% of the school.   Most of those people don't live in the walk zone though, or even in the largest possible expanded walk zone.  642 out of 653 kids at asfs are bus eligible-- only eleven children in the current school body live in the walk zone.  The 500+ kids that live in key will move to another school presumably.  
Instead of the teachers and administrators standing up and saying they care about those children, all they have been saying is how they care about the pile of bricks.  I understand they invested into the building, but it was and is hurtful to the current school population that they don't care where any of us go as long as the building stays where iris.
And they have said that they are very happy to take transfers from people who live near the school, but those kids from the key zone are crowding the school and need to be sent elsewhere.  They were saying that last year before this began!  The kids from key live in apartments and their parents don't speak English well so they are a drain on our school, but it would be great if Lyon village was zoned for the school!  what do you think the school will look like at that point.  And you should have heard those guys talking about immersion coming there!  The horror!  But ats would be  a great addition to the neighborhood.  What do you think the subtext is?[/quote]

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