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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.

However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

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I’m an out going officer of the asfs pta so I feel like I should correct the misinformation being spread here. 
At the first pta meeting elections were supposed to be held, there were at least fifteen adults who do not have kids at the school present.  I know this based off of the sign in sheet.  This was the first meeting I had seen this, but it’s possible that they’ve been coming for a while.  At that first meeting, there were a number of people making comments that are inconsistent with asfs community values.  For example, I saw someone make fun of a parent asking a question in broken English.  I don’t know if that person is a member of our community or not, but behavior like that is appalling and not welcome at our school.  
 At the second pta meeting where we voted, I saw at least three adults who do not have children at the school.  I recognize one from the televised school board meetings and I talked to other two.
A large number of people did leave right after the vote, but that was due to Ramadan and the provided child care ending.  Early is also relative: they left at 7:30 or later, which many with small kids might consider late for a weeknight.
I agree people who are not current members of the community have a right to join and contribute, but I have not seen any of them outside of these two meetings.  If this is the new normal, we need to be more stringent about running background checks on volunteers.  I would hate for someone to use this as a way to gain access for more nefarious reasons like child abuse or school violence.  
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Are you seriously trying to associate Cherrydale parents attending ASFS PTA meetings with child abuse and school shootings? WTF is wrong with you?[/quote]

Seriously. WTF. [/quote]

NP. Actually when I heard that ANYONE off the street could attend a PTA meeting, without any association with the school I did find it troubling. The on-site baby sitting is I think a bunch of high schoolers, so it would be pretty easy for someone to con a teen distracted by their phone once you have access to the building and PTA meeting.

[b]Anyone attending a PTA meeting [/b]should be a member and have some rudimentary vetting; if you are not a parent or teacher then they take your license and verify your physical address. [/quote]

But can they vote? I would think not. Our PTA would never let that fly. And we'd probably notice of random people were attending, too, and ask them to leave because the school isn't open to just anyone. Wierd. Cherrydale residents are crazy AF if they did this. [/quote]

It was hard to tell who was random, because a lot of Rosslyn parents showed up at their first PTA meeting also in order to majority vote out Cherrydale parents.  It's become a turf war.[/quote]

Of course random walk-in can vote, it’s a show of hands. That’s why they tried this stunt. [/quote]

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