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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ad hominem attacks against those who signed the petition are a bit unfair.  Not all of us who signed are "lemmings" and while some of  individual comments might have sounded "whiny," some of us signed the petition to raise serious issues of equity and efficiency.  Even if it is too late, there's a value to raising these issues.   I happen to live within a block of ASFS, but my kids will have to be bused to Taylor (which, according to the parents who've actually tested this by physically waiting in front of taylor, actually does take 45 minutes from pickup in the morning to dropoff at the school).   And yes, it is true that I was fully aware that my kids would have to lottery into the school at the time we bought our house, back then the chances were actually quite good that we'd actually be able to get in.  Now, there is effectively no more lottery because the school is over-subscribed.  Fine.  But just as my family must adapt to that regrettable change -- it seems that those who bought into the boundary should equally be expected to adapt to the changes that redrawing boundaries requires.  This is an opportunity to create more rational boundaries for the entire APS system such that every area has an actual neighborhood school and that entry to the "choice" schools be by county-wide lottery.   Taking those within the Key/ASFS boundary out of the boundary re-drawing process undermines that potential.  Why not re-consider changing Key into a neighborhood school, and having a different school -- accessible by county-wide lottery -- be one that has Spanish immersion?  That way spaces are freed up at both the new spanish immersion site and ASFS to be truly "choice" schools to which the entire county can have equal access via lottery?

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Well-stated, and dead-on.[/quote]

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