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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]

So you’ll be invested until you won’t be invested? [/quote]
I'm not even sure what this means.  
Honestly this entire exchange is why I avoid discussions like this both on this board and in real life.  There are a few ASFS posters on this board who seriously are just so mean.  You beat up on anyone who tries to have a rational discussion with you.
Moving walkers from Highland east (and honestly from 10th street up) out of Key isn't going to happen.  All those native spanish speakers who have been coming to school board meetings for years at this point saying they need to be able to walk to school, their need for walking to school doesn't end when immersion moves.  Those guys aren't going to Long Branch, or Drew, or H-B or whereever else you want to send them.
I support the moves, but honestly you are doing a real disservice to your cause by arguing that the areas around Key can go somewhere else.  Its as bad as the maps that McKinley and Key are putting out.  Lots of people have pointed out that demographics are going to be an issue when they draw the key boundary.  You can't just ignore that by saying that you'll bus the rich kids out to make room for Rosslyn.  Some kids in Rosslyn are going to have to go somewhere other than Key, maybe that's asfs, maybe that's taylor, maybe that's long branch.  I don't know and neither do you. 
And yes, I do have an issue with busing and making completely white schools (which if you have ASFS start at Barton and go west, is what you get).  Everyone should.  Its one thing if you have housing patterns that caused it like the rest of north arlington, its another if you had a really nice, diverse school and you ruined it through policy decisions and poor planning.  Which is what they did to ASFS.  Key if they draw the boundary you are envisioning (bryan street east) has a FRL over 50%, even before some of the CAH opens up.  
You need to start thinking of some creative solutions, either that or become ok with the demographics focused map they put out (which put north of wilson at Key, and south of Wilson at asfs).  [/quote]

At the top of your previous post you stated, “I am invested[.]”. At the end you stated, “Glad I don’t have to pay attention to it.” Neighborhood Key will probably be at least a forty percent FARMs school.  That’s good.  Part of Lyon Village will also have to go there (barring flight to private).  That’s good too.[/quote]

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