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

For someone not invested you sure wrote a lot.

As for fiscally responsible, busing Rosslyn kids to Key and Key walkers to ASFS etc is FAR FAR cheaper than buying land and building a neighborhood elementary school closer to Rosslyn. That’s the reality we are dealing with.  You could argue that buying land in Rosslyn would be a better long term investment but cash flow wise its a hard sell.

[b]So other than complaining about too many buses and Key walkers being bused, in your long paragraph you never actually offered an alternative???[/b]

Anywyays, no movers will prevail so it’s all moot anyways. [/quote]
I am invested in that the Key is in my neighborhood, and I've been at ASFS for the past 8+ years.  That and we should all be invested, you can't spend money like this and then complain about them having to defund crew or take away the outdoor lab.  
Anywyays, I did offer an alternative -- have an upper and lower school.  Have ASFS be the upper school, Key be the lower school.  You are only adding half as many buses.  You can revisit the decision in a few years if it isn't working out well, you won't have rezoned anyone outside of a walk zone at that point, so you can divy up boundaries at that point.  It would be better to wait a few years to see how many kids follow immersion before drawing boundaries anyways.  I think it may be the only way to avoid sending parts of Rosslyn to Taylor, and it helps with demographics.  You'd avoid a lot of the pain of boundaries too -- everyone I've talked to with younger kids at ASFS is extremely unhappy about "losing the science".  Its going to be a real mess when they get to that stage.  Glad I don't have to pay attention to it.  [/quote]

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Seriously.  Give me a break.  This upper and lower business is a non-starter and APS knows that so don't waste your time with this.  I have middle school and elementary children so you are asking me to be involved in yet another PTA, attend events at multiple elementary schools in addition to middle schools, sorry, no that does not work.  And don't worry yourself with diversity - you don't need upper and lower schools to ensure this - these are much more diverse areas than other NA by comparison.  It will be plenty diverse at both sites.  If you care so much about this precious diversity, what are you doing to diversify Jamestown, Discovery, Taylor, Nottingham, and on and on.

If young families are worried about "losing the science" why would they just not work to [b]advocate for a science focus at the new neighborhood school.[/b]  Key Science Focus Elementary (KSFS) coming to a neighborhood near you!
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This is exactly what the ASFS community (the part who will end up at Key) should be doing. Great opportunity to push for ASFS #2. Maybe minus the science lab though - too political. 
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