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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious questions here from a Nottingam parent who gets the implications of these questions for our own school but is going to ask anyway (because I’ve been reading this thread all along and still don’t feel like I have a handle on the answers):

1. For those who want Key to remain at its current location, what is APS supposed to do for neighborhood students in its area, especially considering that fewer of them will be able to Key than have attended previously? Do you expect ASFS to stay outside of its zone while students immediately around it go elsewhere? Will the planning units around Key get zoned for other schools? How do you expect to see that division occur?

2. For those who want a Key/ASFS swap, I’d ask essentially the same question - where do you expect all of the students around ASFS to go? What will those boundaries look like?

For all of the debate and advocacy around these ideas, I’m having a hard time envisioning how it would work in practice to keep the immersion program at either location while stil providing the necessary neighborhood seats, but maybe there’s something I’m overlooking. I know people will be inclined to take these questions as a springboard for other positions only tangentially related, but I’d appreciate it if I could get some serious and direct answers to these questions from people who hold these positions before that happens.[/quote]

These are really questions you should be addressing to the school board.[/quote]

Why? The SB has not yet made a determination on this either way, but maybe they don’t see it either. Right now I’m talking to the parents who are advocating for these outcomes, how do they see it actually working? How are you going to convince me to sign your petition? To support your side when I go to office hours or send an email to the staff/SB?[/quote

Who, outside of this thread, and, outside of this thread, some parents concerned about rumors, is discussing these changes?  I have seen no explanation from the school board.  The only tangible concern I recall reading about was an online petition from over a year ago from a ASFS parent who indicated concern about Key becoming an option school and ASFS potentially having to take in hundreds of new students.  [/quote]

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