Anonymous wrote:White, monolingual parent of a 2yo here zoned for Taylor but would prefer Key because it's immersion and walkable.

I don't want my kid at ASFS. It's practically on top of 66. No thanks.

Key is awesome.

White, monolingual parent of a 2yo here zoned for Taylor but would prefer Key because it's immersion and walkable.

I don't want my kid at ASFS. It's practically on top of 66. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:All of this STEM/STEAM branding of elementary schools is such a joke. What happened to regular elementary schools where all this was/is taught regardless of the acronym.

Are you new here?

No. And had 4 DCs attend ASFS only bc closest school to our house at the time.

Great! So you know that it isn't offering anything special. It doesn't need a gimmick anymore. People have no problem sending their kids to APS in that part of the county, so ditch the name and make it a neighborhood school.

19:25 again. It's a great school in many ways, though definitely has its issues, but ASFS isn't offering anything special and doesn't need a gimmick.

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Anonymous wrote:All of this STEM/STEAM branding of elementary schools is such a joke. What happened to regular elementary schools where all this was/is taught regardless of the acronym.

Are you new here?

No. And had 4 DCs attend ASFS only bc closest school to our house at the time.

Great! So you know that it isn't offering anything special. It doesn't need a gimmick anymore. People have no problem sending their kids to APS in that part of the county, so ditch the name and make it a neighborhood school.

Anonymous wrote:Oh let's just cut to the chase: rename one of these schools, Guaranteed UVA Admission.

I'm dying!

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Anonymous wrote:All of this STEM/STEAM branding of elementary schools is such a joke. What happened to regular elementary schools where all this was/is taught regardless of the acronym.

Are you new here?

No. And had 4 DCs attend ASFS only bc closest school to our house at the time.

Oh let's just cut to the chase: rename one of these schools, Guaranteed UVA Admission.

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APS runs a bus from ASFS to Lyon Village. Most families don't walk.

Because they never made a safe crosswalk across Kirkwood. Cars speed down that road like maniacs and there is zero lighted crosswalk or a crossing guard so even kids old enough to walk by themselves couldn't do it.

And there's that twisty bit of 13th Street with no sidewalk. I'm not saying kids should walk. I'm saying almost none of them do, and none of them are going to, so if they're going to be on a bus, they could be on a bus to another school and the kids in Cherrydale could walk to ASFS.

Let's just rename schools so parents chill out: Cherrydale Science Focus School. Taylor Science Focus School. Jamestown iPad Academy and Science Focus School.

LOL. I almost spit out my margarita.

Anonymous wrote:All of this STEM/STEAM branding of elementary schools is such a joke. What happened to regular elementary schools where all this was/is taught regardless of the acronym.

Are you new here?

All of this STEM/STEAM branding of elementary schools is such a joke. What happened to regular elementary schools where all this was/is taught regardless of the acronym.

All neighborhood schools are going to have STEAM.

All of them.

So, really they should rename science focus something else. Whatever.
Barrack Obama elementary
Journey elementary school
Snowflake primary

Whatever.
It's not a choice school anymore, so stop treating it as such.

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APS runs a bus from ASFS to Lyon Village. Most families don't walk.

Because they never made a safe crosswalk across Kirkwood. Cars speed down that road like maniacs and there is zero lighted crosswalk or a crossing guard so even kids old enough to walk by themselves couldn't do it.

And there's that twisty bit of 13th Street with no sidewalk. I'm not saying kids should walk. I'm saying almost none of them do, and none of them are going to, so if they're going to be on a bus, they could be on a bus to another school and the kids in Cherrydale could walk to ASFS.

Let's just rename schools so parents chill out: Cherrydale Science Focus School. Taylor Science Focus School. Jamestown iPad Academy and Science Focus School.

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Anonymous wrote:My friends who paid inflated prices to buy in the Key district so they could send their kids to ASFS are shaking in their boots right now. I understand their concern, but it never seemed fair to be able to pay to play.

No one pays a premium for ASFS over say Taylor or Jamestown. It's all about Clarendon and metro access. Granted metro is failing and Clarendon retail is going stale, those are real problems.

I'll tell my friends that they lied to me, then, when they said they were only house shopping in Key b/c they wanted their kids at ASFS.

Huh. That's weird. I live in the Key zone, but we paid for the walkability and short commute to the city. More power to them, I guess.

you either don't have school age kids that you were planning on sending to a public school or don't actually live in that area. I can't think of anyone with school age kids that wouldn't factor in schools when buying a house.

I have toddlers, so we absolutely factored in schools. That's why we weren't looking in Alexandria or DC. I just don't think ASFS is any better than Taylor or Long Branch, which are geographically the closest schools after Key and ASFS. We will be fine in any of them, but prefer a neighborhood school.

It's the use of the word "Science." It gets people very excited.