Is this a guest post by NVD? If not you should definitely run for the SB. |
No, NVD likes to spout that all schools are equal while making policies to make them less equal. She's a fun one like that. |
FYI my spouse and I both have graduate degrees from selective institutions. We are successful professionally and grew up in the DC area. We are happy with Randolph and are actually less worried about Wakefield than we were about Randolph. So this does not hold true for everyone. |
I never said to bus in diversity. Then move some planning unit's near Williamsburg from Donaldson run which will go to Stratford. I am talking about allocating more kids so the other schools aren't so over crowded. |
If they allocate more kids to Williamsburg, there won't be room for transfers and a possible choice program for those who would prefer to get out of their neighborhood middle school. Given how much the Kenmore group bitches about their school, I have to think that some of them will be chomping at the bit for a transfer. Unless they're like everyone else who wants to stay at their neighborhood school while everyone else moves. |
Even without a choice program, they should open Williamsburg up for transfers and provide busing for those that want it. That way those stuck in overcrowded Swanson (or elsewhere) because their neighbors complained about being switched to Williamsburg can transfer out if they want to. |
The room for transfer line is utter BS. It's the same as at Jamestown that took on preschool classes (that use less resources) b/c they had room.........you know, so much room that they bragged about their trailer-free existence while neighboring schools were bursting at the seams. |
This preschool classes are being used by APS to cover up its hyper segregation. The kids in VPI and Montessori who qualify for fr/l are the ONLY kids at Jamestown and Discovery who do. Because there's no way anyone who can qualify for fr/l has a family who can afford to live within those school boundaries. Frankly, I am surprised that Williamsburg is projected to even have 1% ED students. Must be the kids who they think will live in the APAH Westover project. |
Nope. That would be Swanson, the MS in the Westover neighborhood. |
You guys...
Democrats just swept the election. We all vote liberal! What more do you want from us. We would totally welcome low income housing in those areas. It’s so sad they haven’t moved forward with any. |
Oh right. Okay, so they're projecting 1% so that the don't have to admit it will be 0%. Great job with zoning Arlington. Maintain that neighborhood character! |
No one in the areas we are talking about (Discovery/Jamestown) welcomes affordable housing in their area. They ask for it on Lee Highway knowing full-well that those students will end up at Glebe. |
Where else are you going to put affordable housing north of Lee Highway? Should they tear down a community center to do it? It's not like they can use eminent domain to take a bunch of SFH lots and turn them into apartment buildings. |
They can just purchase lots as they are available and then rezone. If they can build hundreds of units on top of a polluted old gas station lot into a hillside next to another building on Columbia Pike, they can figure out how to build some on the north side of Lee Hwy in the Nottingham and Discovery zones. |
You can't build an apartment building on a quarter of an acre, which is on the bigger side of the lots they might be able to get north of Lee Highway. And that assumes they'd be willing to pay more than the builders for the lot. Unless you're advocating for them paving over Chestnut Hills, I don't know what you think they're going to find. Other than the Williamsburg Shopping Center, I'm not even aware of any commercial areas that far north that they could tack a building onto like they did on the parcel you cited. |