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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in Key, and we would actually be happy not to get involved with the hyper competitive momzilla rat-race which is ASFS. But we don't like immersion programs, so this is where we'll wind up because we have the option of one specialty school or the other and not a regular school. [/quote]

I am in the same boat. I wish I had another option.[/quote]
That's what the petition wants too- maybe you should sign it.  It was not the best worded petition I've ever seen, but it was pretty clear to me that they thought that a facility closer to the Orange Line (ASFS/Key) should be converted to a neighborhood school, and the corresponding program be moved elsewhere.  If ASFS were converted to a neighborhood school, wouldn't people nearby simply be happy to go there?[/quote]

Nope. I paid a lot of fucking $ and waited 2 years for a house to come on the market in Key boundary for guaranteed admission to ASFS.

There is a reason LV real estate/ Wilson blvd side is priced much higher than the Clarendon blvd/Ashton/LP side.  The elem and middle schools are a big factor.[/quote]And you wonder why the rest of Arlington thinks that LV folks feel themselves a privileged class.  "I paid more than others, thus, I shouldn't have to be subjected too movement like others".  The fact that any neighborhood is offered guaranteed admission to a sorta, kinda choice school, when those who live a block away aren't is simply absurd.  Again, thanks for affirming the point of the petition, and many of the postings made thereto.  [/quote]

+ 1000!  well put.   these sorts of posts just make those who oppose the petition sound like privileged folks not wanting to let go of privilege.  and notwithstanding the possibility that the proposed alternative actually serves the greater good in the long run.  [/quote]

oh give me a break.  It's not like the majority of people on that petition are sitting in homes much cheaper than the ones in Lyon Village.  The area that serves Taylor (and with Yorktown as HS) is very similarily priced....and most of you would simply die if you had to send your kids to W-L so BLOW ME.[/quote]

that's really mature.  and inaccurate.  a bunch of us zoned for taylor are zoned with washington and lee.  and, moreover, perfectly happy with that --  until your rather condescending post, i wasn't even aware that w-l was viewed as so obviously inferior.     [/quote]

Really, you are on this forum and there has been a W-L vs Yorktown post near this one for over a week now with Taylor/Williamsburg/Yorktown assholes stating W-l has brown people. So I call complete BS that you were unaware esp since the tiger moms at your elem school love to yenta on and on about YHS...or maybe you really do just live under a rock.[/quote]

If you actually read the posts there, you'd see that it's hardly conclusive that W-L is inferior.   As I said before many Taylor families are zoned for W-L and are perfectly happy with that opportunity.   and is the profanity really necessary?   goodness, perhaps you should try to do something more productive with your apparent rage.[/quote]

There is a troll(s)/or extremely misinformed person in this and the W-L v Yorktown thread who is claiming, to paraphrase, that W-L is inferior to Yorktown, and s(he) doesn't understand why someone would specifically choose a house in the W-L district. Also, that same person may be trolling about how wealthy Lyon Village kids are bused to "superior" Williamsburg and Yorktown as some sort of privilege.

The facts: Lyon Village families moved for the schools, and they are Key/ASFS, Swanson, and Washington-Lee (not Yorktown). Lyon Village is two blocks from W-L. I don't know where these trolls came from, but until this week discussions about Arlington schools have been much more civil.

In a couple years expect quite a few Yorktown neighborhoods to be moved into W-L. Most people won't mind. 200 plus Yorktown students transfer to W-L right now. But I guess nasty language is the norm from now on, and we can expect more of it. [/quote]

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