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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way I see this the Board is hiding behind the Superintendent while also wasting tax dollars with their entire elementary boundary process this spring- if this is what they wanted to do lead with that and don't waste staff, the communities, or their time pretending they want to hear what the public thinks.

This move also doesn't solve the long term issue that there will be over 1500 students along the orange line corridor and only one neighborhood school to attend.[b] the reality is both buildings should be neighborhood.[/b] The staff is also not considering the housing developments planned in the next few years, at least one of which will be for affordable housing in VA Square which presumably would increase FARM numbers. Also as another poster said the Key walk zone will be expanded once moved and you can bet that their FARM rate will go way down once they make that move since it will be the Rosslyn folks who are likely moved so using that as rationale for the move is misleading.

Last, I also am bothered that they will most likely be shrinking the Immersion program (see quote below from the APS memo) which is the opposite of what we should be doing, especially given that APS believes its a valuable program which is why they have never said they want to cut it (and given the seat crunch we are in one would hope that evaluation has been done just from an "exploring all options" perspective).

"The number of kindergarten classes in the Immersion program may need to be reduced in the future.  If APS continues with six classes at each grade, and all students continued in the program through grade 5, enrollment would eventually exceed 850 students.     
It may make sense to reduce the number of incoming kindergarten classes in years when boundaries are adjusted".

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Maybe APS Staff does think we need two neighborhood schools there, but didn't have the enrollment #s to justify that. By January, they will have more #s and maybe can make the case to make ASFS a neighborhood school too.

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