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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no “program” at asfs.  I might be giving away who I am here, but I have a middle schooler and a couple of younger kids.  The school today is very different from where it was ten years ago.  There are no science songs being sung in kindergarten.   A lot of the veteran teachers who had been there for decades have left in the past two years.  The teacher turn over at that school is really ridiculous, I think 20 teachers left last year.  My younger kids are not getting any sort of extra science exposure that is meaningful enough for the amount of anger people are expressing here. [b] The program is so crappy right now that I can’t imagine them trying to say it could get worse.[/b]  My third grader doesn’t know what a simple machine is, she can’t list the steps in the scientific method.  It’s not stem or steam or anything beyond a vanilla elementary school.
 I was there when they made the big push to remodel investigation station.  At the time people thought it was strange and over the top, but ms b pushed extensively for it.  She’s the one who sent out all those fundraising emails.  Based off of other people’s comments here, the push makes sense since she was likely getting pressure to convert the lab to classrooms.  If that’s true, it’s really despicable that she was allowed to do that.   [/quote]

If being a “vanilla elementary school” means ASFS is now “crappy,” maybe instead of focusing so much on ASFS’s program, we should put whatever money is available for things like moving a science lab into elevating the programs in all of the “crappy” “vanilla elementary schools” instead.[/quote]

Then why are you fighting so hard?  If it's so crappy, you should be over the moon for boundary changes.  Odd how your message shifts depending on the way the APS wind is blowing these days.  Wait til they change their minds again and we'll see you claiming how amazing it is that you couldn't possibly go to any other school than that one.[/quote]

I have no idea what you're talking about. We go to what is apparently a "crappy" "vanilla elementary school" that is not ASFS, and there's no chance we're going to be zoned for any schools over there because we don't live over there. My consistent position through this has been that the swap makes sense from a system-wide standpoint given all the practical constraints, and that the histrionics on both sides are ridiculous. How has my message shifted?[/quote]

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