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umm- there is an engage effort on this?  This is not just rumor and fear mongering- changing elementary school locations is a real thing.

To the person asking what Key parents say- here are the reasons I have been given (and I am a Key parent)
[b]1. ask the school board-- they actually mean this, they view it as not their problem.[/b]
2. Give neighborhood preference again, the whole problem is that they took away Key neighborhood preference, it was working fine.  I think this answer is total BS and it actually really irritates me.  It was working fine for THEM- b/c they had the choice of two schools.  It was not working fine for the rest of Arlington.

I don't think anyone at Key wants to swap with ASFS, and I think there is very little incentive for this (doesn't mean it won't happen.)   It doesn't create more seats in that corner of the county.[/quote]

I'm in the Key neighborhood boundaries with a preschooler and a baby, so I am definitely rooting for a neighborhood school at Key. It is frustrating to hear from some of the advocates to keep immersion at Key who are talking about how vital it is to keep the school in it's current location because of the poor Hispanic students who will be gravely endangered by a move - while conveniently ignoring the fact that those families no longer have a right to attend the school as it stands. Yes, they can apply and will probably get in, but the most disadvantaged are the ones least likely to jump through the hoops. As for rest of the (majority not Hispanic) neighborhood, they just DGAF. All of the explanations for why it needs to be immersion hinge on it being a neighborhood school... which it is not![/quote]

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