Anonymous wrote:Heard a piece on NPR WAMU this morning discussing the vote tonight, and how they are moving the 3 schools.

The rationale for the move was only lightly touched on, but they interviewed a Key parent who said that transportation would be an issue at the new ATS site; no mention by reporter that they would have the option to return to a neighborhood school.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we trying to save Key on Key for 2 grades of kids who got in during the Key as neighborhood school era? If everyone else is countywide option, it shouldn’t matter where the school goes.

The options policy went into effect 3 years ago, so only the Key 2nd graders and above got in as “neighbored” and not as the countywide option. Since current 4th and 5th graders are not affected by the 2021 process, only 2 grades at Key (2nd and 3rd) are neighborhood. Everyone else got in as countywide option.

APS hasn’t broken down the numbers by grade, but Key has over 60% transfers in from outside the key neighborhood based on last years numbers. That likely will increase every year based on the new policy. Key actually has kids fro every elementary in Arlington, not just eastern schools. Significant transferring in schools:
- Barrett 49
- Glebe 55
- Long Branch 83
- Patrick Henry 41
- Taylor 90 (likely higher because they were in the “team”)
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Transfer-Report-2018-19-1.pdf#page4

ATS will be a lot closer for a ton of current Key students. Sad that fact is being obscured.

I think most people who have been following this closely are fully aware of the above, as is the Staff and the SB.
I've said it before- the most vocal strident voices for "keep key on key" largely do not live in the Key/ASFS neighborhood. The location of Key works for them, for a mix of reasons, and they will not have the option to stay there if it becomes a neighborhood school.
Also- and this is something keep Key on Key advocates hate to admit, many of the natives Spanish speakers who live close to Key are not sold on the benefits of immersion. The advocates are deathly afraid that those families will choose to stay at the Key neighborhood school rather than move to the ATS building. Even more likely the more welcoming the Key neighborhood school is to them. The English speaking families think they have to have the Spanish speaking families for their immersion model to work.

We are a family who is applying to Key for K for 2020 and will be fine if it moves, even though it's less convenient for us. But we also support the county doing what's best for the whole system. Am I getting up at a SB meeting and saying that? No. I don't want to be ostracized from a sizable vocal group at a community we're hoping to join. Nor do I want my kid ostracized. But I'm sure there are many others like me. At least everyone in the rising K class will have made the choice to attend knowing the move is coming and therefore will not be as angry as those in the upper grades...

Anonymous wrote:I've gotten APS emails before that went to a large number of people that we're CC'd instead if BC'd. Which is a huge mistake, of course. But I'm wondering if it was from something like that?

Regardless, he needs to explain himself.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe he got them from Civic Associations? The people in charge of mine are quite old and I could see them handing a list over no questions asked.

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Anonymous wrote:“Yeah, he got me too. I asked where they got my email address but got no response, naturally.“

$100 says some parent in your school shared your school directory with the Key dad running for school board. Proud to say he hasn’t gotten mine yet!

He got me and I'm not in a school directory. Very curious.

Me too! My kids are still in preschool so no idea how he got it.

Anonymous wrote:“Yeah, he got me too. I asked where they got my email address but got no response, naturally.“

$100 says some parent in your school shared your school directory with the Key dad running for school board. Proud to say he hasn’t gotten mine yet!

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Anonymous wrote:“Yeah, he got me too. I asked where they got my email address but got no response, naturally.“

$100 says some parent in your school shared your school directory with the Key dad running for school board. Proud to say he hasn’t gotten mine yet!

He got me and I'm not in a school directory. Very curious.

Anonymous wrote:“Yeah, he got me too. I asked where they got my email address but got no response, naturally.“

$100 says some parent in your school shared your school directory with the Key dad running for school board. Proud to say he hasn’t gotten mine yet!

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Anonymous wrote:Ready to rip the bandaid off tomorrow and then move on to speculating / stressing about the boundary debates.

I wonder how long that will take? Is there a certain time it HAS to be resolved, like X months before Reed opens? We're in a PU that will certainly be affected and I'd rather know sooner than later where DC will be going.

The timeline has boundaries being finalized December 2020 so it will be ready for Kindergarten Info Night/registration that begins in January 2021.

Anonymous wrote:Ready to rip the bandaid off tomorrow and then move on to speculating / stressing about the boundary debates.

I wonder how long that will take? Is there a certain time it HAS to be resolved, like X months before Reed opens? We're in a PU that will certainly be affected and I'd rather know sooner than later where DC will be going.