Anonymous wrote:https://www.arlnow.com/2018/10/18/peters-take-science-focus-key-swap-cart-before-the-horse/

Someone who gets it!

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Anonymous wrote:What amazes me is that Murphy is giving the SB cover when they barely renewed his contract last time it was up for evaluation (3-2 vote). I bet it will be 5-0 next time!

Do you really think that Murphy stays when the County Board has made it clear that APS is going to start having to do more with less? He will jump off the sinking ship before he has to make hard decisions about what to cut.

Anonymous wrote:What amazes me is that Murphy is giving the SB cover when they barely renewed his contract last time it was up for evaluation (3-2 vote). I bet it will be 5-0 next time!

Anonymous wrote:I’m fine with immersion, and could care less about the swap, but I’d love to see another language added.

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I personally think the whole purpose of the swamp is to eventually kill the Key program and turn that site into another neighborhood school. I know several Key parents (all spanish speaking) and they (and others like them) are very concerned that a large number of spanish speaking families will not go to the new location. Many parents living in the nearby low income housing don't place a high priority on bilingual ed. They go to Key because it is convenient. The wealthier bilingual families will stick with it, but they are a rather small percentage.

I think the move (and smaller incoming K) is a precursor to eliminating Key and making it a neighborhood school down the road. If Key cannot keep up the appropriate number of spanish speaking kids, the program cannot continue in its current form. I think APS is deliberately lowering the numbers to later justify elimination of the program. So much for placing bilingual ed where the spanish speakers are ... they have done the opposite.

Which is very annoying because they changed the whole transfer/choice policy because of all of the "demand for immersion".

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I personally think the whole purpose of the swamp is to eventually kill the Key program and turn that site into another neighborhood school. I know several Key parents (all spanish speaking) and they (and others like them) are very concerned that a large number of spanish speaking families will not go to the new location. Many parents living in the nearby low income housing don't place a high priority on bilingual ed. They go to Key because it is convenient. The wealthier bilingual families will stick with it, but they are a rather small percentage.

I think the move (and smaller incoming K) is a precursor to eliminating Key and making it a neighborhood school down the road. If Key cannot keep up the appropriate number of spanish speaking kids, the program cannot continue in its current form. I think APS is deliberately lowering the numbers to later justify elimination of the program. So much for placing bilingual ed where the spanish speakers are ... they have done the opposite.

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened with HBs murals anyways?

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/future-of-h-b-woodlawn-graffiti-art-uncertain/

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Anonymous wrote:Kill the swap. It accomplishes nothing.

But, it does. It puts seats in Rosalyn with a large and walkable population.

DP. That is correct. I am extremely pro-swap.

Or, have two neighborhood schools which puts seats near Rosslyn with a large and walkable population and keeps the lab intact. APS actually suggested that back at the end of April when it published its second analysis. It's completely shortsighted of APS to have only one neighborhood school in that area. It's also shortsighted for anyone to realistically think that APS is going to spend the funds needed to properly move and recreate that lab. The lab is just collateral damage in this process, which is a real shame given the time, energy and money that obviously went into it-- whether you like it or not, or think it's not that big of a deal, real money went into it. If someone spent $200K to remodel their kitchen just to gut it 4 years later, would you think that was a good use of money?