APS middle school boundary process

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

It doesn't matter what those parents wanted. All that matters is the parents in other PUs who want the disparity fixed but don't want their kids to move to accomplish it.

One thing this process has made clear to me is the extent to which people from all walks all over the county are perfectly comfortable suggesting that other people's kids do things they wouldn't want their own kids to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should send another Swanson PU over to WB. There is no excuse for having Swanson at 111%.

Which is why the Swanson 8th graders need to move to their new zones/MS in 2019.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

It doesn't matter what those parents wanted. All that matters is the parents in other PUs who want the disparity fixed but don't want their kids to move to accomplish it.

One thing this process has made clear to me is the extent to which people from all walks all over the county are perfectly comfortable suggesting that other people's kids do things they wouldn't want their own kids to do.

The kids in those planning units were split from the majority of their Glebe friends and sent to Williamsburg for years in the name of diversity. It's been unfair to them for awhile and when the new middle school boundaries came about, they again were left as a small group going to Williamsburg while most of Glebe would go to Swanson or Stratford. I don't think it's unfair for them to want to stay with their friends and classmates and not have Glebe split into 3 middle schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

So that everyone understands the history here, this is the planning unit that we're talking about: http://www.highviewpark.com/history/

They are also within the 1.5 walk zone to both Stratford and Swanson. I totally understand why they don't want to be put on a bus to Williamsburg, when the only reason for doing so is to push up the FARMS percentage at WMS from 1% to 4%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

It doesn't matter what those parents wanted. All that matters is the parents in other PUs who want the disparity fixed but don't want their kids to move to accomplish it.

One thing this process has made clear to me is the extent to which people from all walks all over the county are perfectly comfortable suggesting that other people's kids do things they wouldn't want their own kids to do.

The kids in those planning units were split from the majority of their Glebe friends and sent to Williamsburg for years in the name of diversity. It's been unfair to them for awhile and when the new middle school boundaries came about, they again were left as a small group going to Williamsburg while most of Glebe would go to Swanson or Stratford. I don't think it's unfair for them to want to stay with their friends and classmates and not have Glebe split into 3 middle schools.

Not quite right - I am in one of the Glebe/Williamsburg PUs, and there has never been a proposal that didn't have us going to Stratford. It's been stupid that only such a small number went to Williamsburg before, but they had the Halls Hill and low income housing behind Lee Heights units, so they had to be the "diversity" for Williamsburg and Yorktown. But the Lee Heights units are practically across the street from Stratford, so that's where they will be going in every proposal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

It doesn't matter what those parents wanted. All that matters is the parents in other PUs who want the disparity fixed but don't want their kids to move to accomplish it.

One thing this process has made clear to me is the extent to which people from all walks all over the county are perfectly comfortable suggesting that other people's kids do things they wouldn't want their own kids to do.

The kids in those planning units were split from the majority of their Glebe friends and sent to Williamsburg for years in the name of diversity. It's been unfair to them for awhile and when the new middle school boundaries came about, they again were left as a small group going to Williamsburg while most of Glebe would go to Swanson or Stratford. I don't think it's unfair for them to want to stay with their friends and classmates and not have Glebe split into 3 middle schools.

Not quite right - I am in one of the Glebe/Williamsburg PUs, and there has never been a proposal that didn't have us going to Stratford. It's been stupid that only such a small number went to Williamsburg before, but they had the Halls Hill and low income housing behind Lee Heights units, so they had to be the "diversity" for Williamsburg and Yorktown. But the Lee Heights units are practically across the street from Stratford, so that's where they will be going in every proposal.

Hi neighbor! Yes, that's right. There's no way that area could not go to Stratford because you are so close. I was speaking more of the Hall's Hill area further down Lee Highway which was planned to continue at Glebe/Williamsburg even though almost all the others from Glebe were Swanson or Stratford.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

It doesn't matter what those parents wanted. All that matters is the parents in other PUs who want the disparity fixed but don't want their kids to move to accomplish it.

One thing this process has made clear to me is the extent to which people from all walks all over the county are perfectly comfortable suggesting that other people's kids do things they wouldn't want their own kids to do.

The kids in those planning units were split from the majority of their Glebe friends and sent to Williamsburg for years in the name of diversity. It's been unfair to them for awhile and when the new middle school boundaries came about, they again were left as a small group going to Williamsburg while most of Glebe would go to Swanson or Stratford. I don't think it's unfair for them to want to stay with their friends and classmates and not have Glebe split into 3 middle schools.

Not quite right - I am in one of the Glebe/Williamsburg PUs, and there has never been a proposal that didn't have us going to Stratford. It's been stupid that only such a small number went to Williamsburg before, but they had the Halls Hill and low income housing behind Lee Heights units, so they had to be the "diversity" for Williamsburg and Yorktown. But the Lee Heights units are practically across the street from Stratford, so that's where they will be going in every proposal.

Hi neighbor! Yes, that's right. There's no way that area could not go to Stratford because you are so close. I was speaking more of the Hall's Hill area further down Lee Highway which was planned to continue at Glebe/Williamsburg even though almost all the others from Glebe were Swanson or Stratford.

Then move some Donaldson Run PU so that WV isn't so under capacity. I am not talking about the diversity issue just an over crowding one. Some if the DR ones used to feed into WB so the parents wouldn't care.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

It doesn't matter what those parents wanted. All that matters is the parents in other PUs who want the disparity fixed but don't want their kids to move to accomplish it.

One thing this process has made clear to me is the extent to which people from all walks all over the county are perfectly comfortable suggesting that other people's kids do things they wouldn't want their own kids to do.

The kids in those planning units were split from the majority of their Glebe friends and sent to Williamsburg for years in the name of diversity. It's been unfair to them for awhile and when the new middle school boundaries came about, they again were left as a small group going to Williamsburg while most of Glebe would go to Swanson or Stratford. I don't think it's unfair for them to want to stay with their friends and classmates and not have Glebe split into 3 middle schools.

Not quite right - I am in one of the Glebe/Williamsburg PUs, and there has never been a proposal that didn't have us going to Stratford. It's been stupid that only such a small number went to Williamsburg before, but they had the Halls Hill and low income housing behind Lee Heights units, so they had to be the "diversity" for Williamsburg and Yorktown. But the Lee Heights units are practically across the street from Stratford, so that's where they will be going in every proposal.

Hi neighbor! Yes, that's right. There's no way that area could not go to Stratford because you are so close. I was speaking more of the Hall's Hill area further down Lee Highway which was planned to continue at Glebe/Williamsburg even though almost all the others from Glebe were Swanson or Stratford.

Then move some Donaldson Run PU so that WV isn't so under capacity. I am not talking about the diversity issue just an over crowding one. Some if the DR ones used to feed into WB so the parents wouldn't care.

Stratford isn't projected to be over capacity, so you'd be moving kids to Williamsburg to solve a problem that doesn't exist, while taking away the availability of transfer options to Williamsburg for students at Kenmore, Swanson and Jefferson who might want to transfer as well as the possibility of a choice program. And don't forget that it would make the diversity problem even worse, driving up Stratford's ED %.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving the units S of Lee Highway away from Williamsburg is unconscionable. I'm super disappointed in staff.

Why? That’s what the parents in those units wanted.

It doesn't matter what those parents wanted. All that matters is the parents in other PUs who want the disparity fixed but don't want their kids to move to accomplish it.

One thing this process has made clear to me is the extent to which people from all walks all over the county are perfectly comfortable suggesting that other people's kids do things they wouldn't want their own kids to do.

The kids in those planning units were split from the majority of their Glebe friends and sent to Williamsburg for years in the name of diversity. It's been unfair to them for awhile and when the new middle school boundaries came about, they again were left as a small group going to Williamsburg while most of Glebe would go to Swanson or Stratford. I don't think it's unfair for them to want to stay with their friends and classmates and not have Glebe split into 3 middle schools.

Not quite right - I am in one of the Glebe/Williamsburg PUs, and there has never been a proposal that didn't have us going to Stratford. It's been stupid that only such a small number went to Williamsburg before, but they had the Halls Hill and low income housing behind Lee Heights units, so they had to be the "diversity" for Williamsburg and Yorktown. But the Lee Heights units are practically across the street from Stratford, so that's where they will be going in every proposal.

Hi neighbor! Yes, that's right. There's no way that area could not go to Stratford because you are so close. I was speaking more of the Hall's Hill area further down Lee Highway which was planned to continue at Glebe/Williamsburg even though almost all the others from Glebe were Swanson or Stratford.

Then move some Donaldson Run PU so that WV isn't so under capacity. I am not talking about the diversity issue just an over crowding one. Some if the DR ones used to feed into WB so the parents wouldn't care.

Stratford isn't projected to be over capacity, so you'd be moving kids to Williamsburg to solve a problem that doesn't exist, while taking away the availability of transfer options to Williamsburg for students at Kenmore, Swanson and Jefferson who might want to transfer as well as the possibility of a choice program. And don't forget that it would make the diversity problem even worse, driving up Stratford's ED %.

The problem with this "plan" is that the kids who are going to transfer to Williamsburg from Kenmore/Jefferson/Gunston or even Swanson aren't going to be ED or help with the diversity at WMS. Whatever. If this is the only plan available to keep my kids out of an overcrowded economically challenged school, I'll take it.

[Anonymous]

The "transfers" aren't going to happen. It's an off the cuff remark to settle the masses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The "transfers" aren't going to happen. It's an off the cuff remark to settle the masses.

This is where my money is.

[Anonymous]

Mine too. The only program that could be instituted at Williamsburg to change the ED rations is the bilingual program. Tannia Talento will have a fit if any of the lower income families she claims to represent have to take a bus from S. A all the way to the north. Won't happen. And the local community will have a fit because of the increase in buses in the neighborhood. If the middle school bilingual program is split between Gunston and Williamsburg, then the move would do nothing for diversity since all the lower income kids in the south would still go to Gunston. Only north arlington parents will send their kids to Williamsburg for a bilingual middle school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The "transfers" aren't going to happen. It's an off the cuff remark to settle the masses.

This is where my money is.

Ding, ding, ding!! Basically they just want you to STFU about your overcrowding and disparate resources. Nothing to see here folks. Better to lie and cover up than address problems. Somebody has some awards to win!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The "transfers" aren't going to happen. It's an off the cuff remark to settle the masses.

This is where my money is.

Ding, ding, ding!! Basically they just want you to STFU about your overcrowding and disparate resources. Nothing to see here folks. Better to lie and cover up than address problems. Somebody has some awards to win!

Underenrolled and near zero FARMS! The 22213 crew does it again!