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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll assume arguendo that Key is going to move to ATS.  How will this work in 2021-22 in terms of new boundary?  Will Key have a new boundary and name when it reopens as a neighborhood school in 2021?[/quote]

Boundaries will be defined this fall. Use current ASFS boundary as a starting point.

It needs a name, program/curriculum, principal, etc. Takes time to start a new school. [/quote]
Is the idea of actually including all of the Key walk zone in its boundary completely off the table?  As a tax payer, I'm really disturbed by all of the maps I see where they are busing hundreds of kids from LV/Clarendon/Courthouse who could walk to Key, in order to make space to bus kids from Rosslyn to Key.  My kids will have aged out of this by the time this takes place, but what a waste of money!  Can they at least do the upper and lower schools  between Key and ASFS so you're only busing half of them?  Especially the posters on here that are convinced that houses a block from Key won't be zoned there!  Key's zone isn't going to go past Bryan Street -- you realize that that means busing kids that are within a third of a mile of the school?  Give me a break!  What a waste of money![/quote]
It's basic math, folks.  There are not enough seats at Key neighborhood elementary for all of Rosslyn AND Clarendon/Courthouse.  Something has to to give.  Let me guess, you want Rosslyn to take their long bus ride to Taylor so you can keep Clarendon and Courthouse at Key neighborhood.  [/quote]

Yeah, let’s bus kids past Key, past ASFS, to Taylor  halfway across the county (3.1 miles from River Place a huge bus stop; it’s 5.8 miles to East Falls Church) so PP can walk.

#longestbusride[/quote]
So I was one of the higher posters who (let me reiterate) is not directly affected by this.  My kids will be in middle school and high school by the time this gets implemented.  My kids are never walking to a school at Key.  I live across the street from key, so yes, I have a vested interest in reducing the traffic there (going down to six buses would be great).  I am disturbed by the fact that every map put out by the public or aps at this point has over 200 walkers from key on a bus.  I don't think its fair for for Rosslyn to go to Taylor, but its not fiscally responsible to bus other people so they can go to Key.  I am bothered by the fact that we are actually talking about busing kids who can walk to another school so we can shorten bus rides for some other bus riders.  Each bus is 100k -- you are adding a hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not millions) to the APS operating budget, especially if you factor in that once those kids get moved, its locked for five years.  I am all for "transportation equity" but just adding buses is not sustainable.  Neither is assuming that people who literally live within a third of a mile to the school should be bused somewhere because they can.  You're not really encouraging neighborhood support for your cause here.

Everyone should take a breath.  If you are not ok with kids currently zoned for asfs going to taylor (which it sounds like you are not), then you should support the idea of a upper and lower school.  I think its the only way where you can still give kids at Rosslyn a short bus ride without keeping a ridiculous number of buses at Key and ASFS.

Either way it is way to premature for you to be picking a fight over boundaries.  You can put your hashtag away.  [/quote]

Where has your outrage been for the last several YEARS of APS children being bussed when they could instead walk to schools near them?  Not invested, yeah right.  Yet, you're still here touting your  upper/lower garbage.  Just move on to your MS and HS arguments.  No one is buying what you are selling here.[/quote]

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