What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of worrying about losing an established school, you all should be lobbying for the Sb to change its decision to make reed a neighborhood school. As an option school, it would draw primarily from the surrounding neighborhood bc no one really far away will send their kid there. Make it an el school like Campbell. You all are in a tizzy because of reed.

Give up this stupid idea. NW is significantly overcrowded right now. Even if they take away Nottingham or Tuckahoe in exchange for Reed, that still nets NW an extra 200 much-needed seats. Giving up one of the largest-capacity schools in the area would be terrible for all of us who live up there, so stop harping on it.

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Anonymous wrote:OFFICIALLY DELAYED:

Elementary School Planning Initiative Draft Analysis Delayed
Because of internet connectivity issues at the Syphax Education Center this evening, staff has been unable to post the Elementary School Planning Initiative Draft Analysis. The analysis will be posted tomorrow.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

OK, so where is it?!

Seriously? What difference does it really make if you saw the analysis yesterday vs next week? You will get it and have time to provide feedback. Chill TF down.

Oh really. You mean like how the SB came up with a completely different version for the HS situation last year at the 23rd hour? or how now APS tells the residents in NW Washington that they will have to lose another neighborhood school b/c of Reed?

Chill. Your kids will be fine wherever they land.

Go away. You don't get to tell people what they can and can't worry about.

You go away. Your hysteria is annoying and doesn’t help anything.

I'm not hysterical. I have been around APS long enough to know this is a marathon and not a sprint. But, they either have some agenda they aren't disclosing or are making it up as they go along. Either way, I don't want my kid sitting in a school with 20 trailers because APS decided to take away a neighborhood school near me. I'm not one of these people worried about my particular school. I see how many homes are being torn down around me and being replaced with ones that will certainly house kids. The NW Quadrant continues to see a tremendous growth in the K-5 age group because of this. Even once Reed opens, there will be plenty of kids to fill all of the neighborhood seats and then some.

So you keep worrying about people's hysteria and we will let you know when APS blindsides you.

Sounds like a lot of drama for having to wait a few extra hours for some analysis document.

If you're so breezy and chill, what are you even doing here?

Right now at this moment, I'm laughing at the neurotic b*tches who can't even deal with some document being delayed a day. When the analysis comes out I will review it and provide feedback. Until then...

Okay. Well, check back in when they announce their surprise and your school is on the list!

My kid's school is on the list.

Okay then, take your breezy self out of this thread and wait patiently for staff to release their report.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Instead of worrying about losing an established school, you all should be lobbying for the Sb to change its decision to make reed a neighborhood school. As an option school, it would draw primarily from the surrounding neighborhood bc no one really far away will send their kid there. Make it an el school like Campbell. You all are in a tizzy because of reed.

Give up this stupid idea. NW is significantly overcrowded right now. Even if they take away Nottingham or Tuckahoe in exchange for Reed, that still nets NW an extra 200 much-needed seats. Giving up one of the largest-capacity schools in the area would be terrible for all of us who live up there, so stop harping on it.

And P.S., I'm a Nottingham parent who lives about as far from Reed as the zone goes, so there's no chance we're going there. I love Nottingham, but if I had to choose between giving up Reed and giving up Nottingham, I would give up Nottingham in a heartbeat because I'm not a moron who can't do math.

[Anonymous]

Reed. Ick. Can we not talk about that debacle here? Plenty of other threads for that. I try to avoid being reminded of how Westover sold out its neighbors. Keep your Reed propaganda on those threads, please.

[Anonymous]

It should be no surprise that this is a sh!tshow like everything else. Can't make their own deadlines? Just move it. Can't make that one, either? Oops, internet connectivity.

I assume that, going forward, APS will extend these same courtesies to parents and students who are unable to meet deadlines. No? That's different? Of course.

There aren't enough eyerolls to convey my utter contempt for APS staff at this point. It is a total ship of fools. This entire process has been a joke. The time wasted is ridiculous, starting with the entire elementary walkability focus group sham – when they were really just hoping to be able to justify moving an option school to NW Arlington all along. Data didn't support that? Well, who cares. Keeping up this ruse of community involvement is just insulting and so is pretending this is about diversity in NW Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should be no surprise that this is a sh!tshow like everything else. Can't make their own deadlines? Just move it. Can't make that one, either? Oops, internet connectivity.

I assume that, going forward, APS will extend these same courtesies to parents and students who are unable to meet deadlines. No? That's different? Of course.

There aren't enough eyerolls to convey my utter contempt for APS staff at this point. It is a total ship of fools. This entire process has been a joke. The time wasted is ridiculous, starting with the entire elementary walkability focus group sham – when they were really just hoping to be able to justify moving an option school to NW Arlington all along. Data didn't support that? Well, who cares. Keeping up this ruse of community involvement is just insulting and so is pretending this is about diversity in NW Arlington.

Spot on!!

[Anonymous]

The whole process has been such a farce. Like the walk zone review where they made it seem like they were trying to expand walk zones and find the most walkable schools, so they encouraged everyone to identify walkable planning units both outside and in the current walk zones that could be walkable with certain safety improvements. That wasn't really to expand the walk zones, and the fact that the SB doesn't have the authority to make most of those listed improvements should have been a big red flag that something fishy was going on. So people went in and marked up planning units as needing all kinds of additional safety measures, which only flagged for the staff that certain planning units, while technically in the walk zone, aren't really walked all that much. That means those planning units are ripe to be zoned and bused elsewhere if it helps the boundary process, and when parents protest being taken away from their supposedly walkable neighborhood school, the staff can point out that they've already acknowledged they don't walk because of safety issues APS can't do anything to remedy, so it's better for traffic to put those kids on a bus than have them all riding in cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole process has been such a farce. Like the walk zone review where they made it seem like they were trying to expand walk zones and find the most walkable schools, so they encouraged everyone to identify walkable planning units both outside and in the current walk zones that could be walkable with certain safety improvements. That wasn't really to expand the walk zones, and the fact that the SB doesn't have the authority to make most of those listed improvements should have been a big red flag that something fishy was going on. So people went in and marked up planning units as needing all kinds of additional safety measures, which only flagged for the staff that certain planning units, while technically in the walk zone, aren't really walked all that much. That means those planning units are ripe to be zoned and bused elsewhere if it helps the boundary process, and when parents protest being taken away from their supposedly walkable neighborhood school, the staff can point out that they've already acknowledged they don't walk because of safety issues APS can't do anything to remedy, so it's better for traffic to put those kids on a bus than have them all riding in cars.

And they didn't even bother talking to the County about this before they started. Turns out there is a huge wait list for such kind of improvements APS was asking parents if they needed to walk to school. Oops.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The whole process has been such a farce. Like the walk zone review where they made it seem like they were trying to expand walk zones and find the most walkable schools, so they encouraged everyone to identify walkable planning units both outside and in the current walk zones that could be walkable with certain safety improvements. That wasn't really to expand the walk zones, and the fact that the SB doesn't have the authority to make most of those listed improvements should have been a big red flag that something fishy was going on. So people went in and marked up planning units as needing all kinds of additional safety measures, which only flagged for the staff that certain planning units, while technically in the walk zone, aren't really walked all that much. That means those planning units are ripe to be zoned and bused elsewhere if it helps the boundary process, and when parents protest being taken away from their supposedly walkable neighborhood school, the staff can point out that they've already acknowledged they don't walk because of safety issues APS can't do anything to remedy, so it's better for traffic to put those kids on a bus than have them all riding in cars.

And they didn't even bother talking to the County about this before they started. Turns out there is a huge wait list for such kind of improvements APS was asking parents if they needed to walk to school. Oops.

That's the point -- they didn't talk to the county because they didn't need to talk to the county because this was never about getting additional safety measures to improve walkability. It was figuring out where they could take away unused walkability.

[Anonymous]

APS just revised their website to address the extended day issue, so bullshit they can't post the analysis due to connectivity issues. Bunch of liars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS just revised their website to address the extended day issue, so bullshit they can't post the analysis due to connectivity issues. Bunch of liars.

They better get this up fast! Next they will tell us they are on different servers or some other lie to cover-up the first internet connectivity lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS just revised their website to address the extended day issue, so bullshit they can't post the analysis due to connectivity issues. Bunch of liars.

Is the Extended Day office at Syphax too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS just revised their website to address the extended day issue, so bullshit they can't post the analysis due to connectivity issues. Bunch of liars.

So glad I am not the only one calling bullshit on this "connectivity issue." Sorry, APS. If you're going to play games, you've got to be smarter than this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS just revised their website to address the extended day issue, so bullshit they can't post the analysis due to connectivity issues. Bunch of liars.

Is the Extended Day office at Syphax too?

I highly doubt the Extended Day program has its own servers just for registration located at a separate site. But that's neither here nor there. If they can update their website for this, that means they have the ability to update their website generally, which means they have the ability to get the analysis document to wherever they have the internet connectivity to do that and get it posted.

[Anonymous]

At what time should we all assume they won't be posting today either?

It cannot take all day to get the internet up and running. We all know something else is going on. When do they say it won't be today? And what excuse do they use?