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Anonymous wrote:I don't usually comment on these threads, but I'm a minority and my kids go to Nottingham. This narrative about Nottingham parents screwing over McKinley in the redistricting process needs to stop. It was a very small handful of PTA busybodies who put together that "official" Nottingham position that no planning units should be sent to our school. The vast majority of Nottingham parents had no idea this position was being developed and they CERTAINLY did not approve of it or advocate for it. I'm tired of Nottingham as a whole being cast as the villain in these conversations.
The school is lovely and my kids are thriving. The parents are ambitious and involved and smart--like most people in this area. We have been welcomed with open arms into this community! It is not a den of racists.
Also, there's nothing inaccurate about this. Nottingham parents DID screw McK. Not ALL Nottingham parents, but enough. I don't remember a huge contingent of Nottingham parents showing up to board meetings saying please, let us absorb those planning units!
Signed, a former Nottingham now McK parent who is honestly probably happier that my kid is at McK
Everyone is always saying how happy they are at McK, it seems like a great school. So why is there so much bitterness? What's the point, if you and your kids are happy?
Nottingham was at 147% of capacity prior to Discovery opening. So guess what, Nottingham suffered for several years prior to Discovery opening. My children had "brunch" for lunch - at 10am because of the limited seating and capacity issues. So just because there isn't a bunch of bitter Nottingham parents on here complaining about how overcrowded Nottingham was prior to Discovery, it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Agreed. We were at Nottingham during those overcrowding years, and no one at the other schools, especially not McKinley, gave a shit about what our kids were going through. Yet they all expected us to then go to bat for them, even when it meant our school still potentially being overcrowded. I feel for the families who went from Tuckahoe to McKinley because they never got relief, but the rest? Selfish hypocrites who have reaped what they sowed.
?? This person is crazy. The School Board wasn't considering boundary changes and McKinley and Tuckahoe were also over capacity before the construction. Nobody was asking Nott. parents to go to bat for them (well, maybe the Tuckahoe units in flux, but they gave that up after the "we don't want you here" petition. People were expecting everyone to act like people with a conscience, though.
OP - I really don't know if this is representative of a lot of Nottingham parents, but they are the ones represented here who most consistently make nasty comments that make me glad we are at another school (nope, not Nottingham, McKinley or Tuckahoe). Please keep that in the back of your head b/c this has been going on for years.
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