Arlington school boundary petition

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Anonymous wrote:Lyon Village residents should hold their fire and save their energy. Wait til the middle school/high school boundary discussions, when your special dispensation to bus your children miles away to Williamsburg/Yorktown is on the table. Prepare for some boundary changes.

TJ seems like a logical destination for Lyon Village. It's basically contiguous with Ashton Heights which goes there. If they're busing the kids to Yorktown, they could probably relieve capacity crunch in the north by busing them slightly further to Wakefield.

Pretty sure u are talking about Lyon Park which is adjacent to AH and goes to TJ middle.

The post keeps popping up, but it is erroneous so no need to "correct" it. None of those neighborhoods are bused to Yorktown. They all currently go to W-L. In a couple years, who knows.

[Anonymous]

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There is a troll(s)/or extremely misinformed person in this and the W-L v Yorktown thread who is claiming, to paraphrase, that W-L is inferior to Yorktown, and s(he) doesn't understand why someone would specifically choose a house in the W-L district. Also, that same person may be trolling about how wealthy Lyon Village kids are bused to "superior" Williamsburg and Yorktown as some sort of privilege.

The facts: Lyon Village families moved for the schools, and they are Key/ASFS, Swanson, and Washington-Lee (not Yorktown). Lyon Village is two blocks from W-L. I don't know where these trolls came from, but until this week discussions about Arlington schools have been much more civil.

In a couple years expect quite a few Yorktown neighborhoods to be moved into W-L. Most people won't mind. 200 plus Yorktown students transfer to W-L right now. But I guess nasty language is the norm from now on, and we can expect more of it.

You aren't 100% correct on your facts. Half of Lyon Village at the elementary school level is Taylor Elem boundary--the other half is ASFS/Key.

I know. Thanks for mentioning it. I forgot to mention the western half of Lyon Village is Taylor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who lives in S. Arlington, happy with most of the neighborhood schools there, aperfectly comfortable sending my kids to Wakefield, I find this hilarious. That is all.

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What if Taylor were the LV default for parents who don't want immersion? Would that make people happy?

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread: There is no place to put another school along the Orange Line. (I wish there were.) I think taking over Key for a plain vanilla school would be a mistake; the lower-income native Spanish speakers should not have to travel further to attend Key. Like the proposals to change Hoffman-Boston, it's pretty arrogant to decide that you're going to take a disadvantaged group's school away because you've decided something else should go there instead.

What has happened to the Wilson School site that makes it no longer available?

good question. at the boundary meeting tonight, people asked for clarification as to why choice schools were off the table (so, for example, is it really impracticable so not worth considering?), but the speaker was unable to speak to even that question, much less any specifics re: the choice schools. for example, why ATS gets 220 extra seats when the boundary schools are so overcrowded. or why ASFS is still considered a "choice" school when it actually functions now as a boundary school given that scant few have or will get in via lottery in the future.

ATS is slated to get those seats b/c they can fill them without the cascading boundary changes a new neighborhood school would cause. With waitlists of 100 per grade those seats will fill immediately and draw more kids out of the already over-crowded schools with no muss, no fuss. Makes perfect sense.

But there are already cascading boundary changes even with those seats filled. that's the entire point of the More Seats for More Students project.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if Taylor were the LV default for parents who don't want immersion? Would that make people happy?

Taylor's operating at around 120% capacity already. there's no room. they need a neighborhood school for the LV/southeastern portion of the taylor boundary.

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Why not make either the Key or ASF site a neighborhood school, and then move the deplaced choice program to the new school being built on the Williamsburg site?

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Anonymous wrote:Why not make either the Key or ASF site a neighborhood school, and then move the deplaced choice program to the new school being built on the Williamsburg site?

Why not read the thread before commenting?

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There was talk about a facebook page about this issue last night at the meeting. Does anyone have the link?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if Taylor were the LV default for parents who don't want immersion? Would that make people happy?

Taylor's operating at around 120% capacity already. there's no room. they need a neighborhood school for the LV/southeastern portion of the taylor boundary.

But Taylor won't be that packed when the new Wmbrg elementary opens, and I suspect a fair number of LV folks send their kids to ASFS because they don't want immersion, not because they do want something sciencetacular.

I like the thought of moving ASFS to the new school, assuming people would consider that a benefit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread: There is no place to put another school along the Orange Line. (I wish there were.) I think taking over Key for a plain vanilla school would be a mistake; the lower-income native Spanish speakers should not have to travel further to attend Key. Like the proposals to change Hoffman-Boston, it's pretty arrogant to decide that you're going to take a disadvantaged group's school away because you've decided something else should go there instead.

What has happened to the Wilson School site that makes it no longer available?

good question. at the boundary meeting tonight, people asked for clarification as to why choice schools were off the table (so, for example, is it really impracticable so not worth considering?), but the speaker was unable to speak to even that question, much less any specifics re: the choice schools. for example, why ATS gets 220 extra seats when the boundary schools are so overcrowded. or why ASFS is still considered a "choice" school when it actually functions now as a boundary school given that scant few have or will get in via lottery in the future.

ATS is slated to get those seats b/c they can fill them without the cascading boundary changes a new neighborhood school would cause. With waitlists of 100 per grade those seats will fill immediately and draw more kids out of the already over-crowded schools with no muss, no fuss. Makes perfect sense.

But there are already cascading boundary changes even with those seats filled. that's the entire point of the More Seats for More Students project.

Those seats haven't been built yet so, no, they aren't filled yet.

[Anonymous]

Response to 08.01am I've read every comment on this thread and attended the meeting last night too. Still, I can't understand why they don't provide a neighborhood school in the LV/Rosslyn area and/or Westover area where they lack a neighborhood school. It seems to me that they are building a school at Williamsburg simply because of available acreage, not because that area needs another neighborhood school. Nearby schools (Taylor, Nottingham, Jamestown, Tuckahoe) are overcrowded partly because of overflow of kids from LV and Westover because those neighborhoods lack a neighborhood option.

My suggestion is to make one or more current choice schools a neighborhood school (ATS, Key, AFS and throw Walter Reed into the equation too), and move the displaced program to the Williamsburg site.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if Taylor were the LV default for parents who don't want immersion? Would that make people happy?

Taylor's operating at around 120% capacity already. there's no room. they need a neighborhood school for the LV/southeastern portion of the taylor boundary.

But Taylor won't be that packed when the new Wmbrg elementary opens, and I suspect a fair number of LV folks send their kids to ASFS because they don't want immersion, not because they do want something sciencetacular.

I like the thought of moving ASFS to the new school, assuming people would consider that a benefit.

And you'd be wrong. Physician with wife that holds a PhD in Biochem. We did want science and really all of the US should be focusing on science at a young age. A huge reason US ranks so low on worldwide education action ratings.

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And you'd be wrong. Physician with wife that holds a PhD in Biochem. We did want science and really all of the US should be focusing on science at a young age. A huge reason US ranks so low on worldwide education action ratings.

I didn't say no families wanted it for the science, I said not all of them did.

I think all of the U.S. should focus on reading comprehension and logic.

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And you'd be wrong. Physician with wife that holds a PhD in Biochem. We did want science and really all of the US should be focusing on science at a young age. A huge reason US ranks so low on worldwide education action ratings.

I didn't say no families wanted it for the science, I said not all of them did.

I think all of the U.S. should focus on reading comprehension and logic.

Maybe they can create a choice 'law-focus elementary school' for the kids that can't hack science.

God knows--the US sure isn't cutting it globally in math and science:

Students in the United States performed near the middle of the pack. On average 16 other industrialized countries scored above the United States in science, and 23 scored above us in math