Holding APS Leadership, Staff and School Board Accountable for the Boundary Mess

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH

It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.

Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools.

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH

It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.

Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools.

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"

"No no, that's not it either. We choiced junior in to Arlingtion's Underwater Basket Weaving Academy because it's so vibrant and stimulating!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have to say how I love that this post started out about how to hold the Staff and School Board accountable and devolved into a post blaming NA parents for the woes of the SA boundary process. A process NA had zero to do with.

NA bashing is getting so old, and clearly isn't getting SA anywhere.

Well, first things first. It was supposed to be a comprehensive boundary process that was supposed to include NA, at least in terms of options school placement, until they whined, were spared, and the process turned into shifting around only SA schools.

No. NA can't happen until Reed opens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have to say how I love that this post started out about how to hold the Staff and School Board accountable and devolved into a post blaming NA parents for the woes of the SA boundary process. A process NA had zero to do with.

NA bashing is getting so old, and clearly isn't getting SA anywhere.

I wouldn't say NA had NOTHING to do with it. It's the attitudes and perceptions that drove people to NA to avoid the "problem" and thereby exacerbated the situation. And NA pushback against APAH-like projects in THEIR neighborhoods, exacerbating the saturation of low-income housing in SA neighborhoods.

Kind of reaching here but I admire the effort to still blame NA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have to say how I love that this post started out about how to hold the Staff and School Board accountable and devolved into a post blaming NA parents for the woes of the SA boundary process. A process NA had zero to do with.

NA bashing is getting so old, and clearly isn't getting SA anywhere.

I wouldn't say NA had NOTHING to do with it. It's the attitudes and perceptions that drove people to NA to avoid the "problem" and thereby exacerbated the situation. And NA pushback against APAH-like projects in THEIR neighborhoods, exacerbating the saturation of low-income housing in SA neighborhoods.

Kind of reaching here but I admire the effort to still blame NA!

Dp- It takes zero effort. It is what it is.
I get that people my age in north Arlington aren’t really the root of the problem. It’s really about north Arlington boomers. Oh, and they hate their gen x and millennial neighbors. The irony is that they are screwing over younger middle class south Arlington families, much more similar to themselves.
It’s a messed up dynamic.
Meanwhile ah stooges and developers reap the benefit.
Oh well...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have to say how I love that this post started out about how to hold the Staff and School Board accountable and devolved into a post blaming NA parents for the woes of the SA boundary process. A process NA had zero to do with.

NA bashing is getting so old, and clearly isn't getting SA anywhere.

Well, first things first. It was supposed to be a comprehensive boundary process that was supposed to include NA, at least in terms of options school placement, until they whined, were spared, and the process turned into shifting around only SA schools.

No. NA can't happen until Reed opens.

Uh yeah it can, and that was the plan until last spring when aps bobbled the ball, accidentally a spreadsheet showing their hand, and pulled the plug because the whole process was a foregone conclusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH

It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.

Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools.

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"

It’s funny to me that there are so many posts across various threads that imply that: A. all people who live in north Arlington weighed the pros and cons of living there vs. south Arlington, and B. made a morally suspect choice in choosing the north.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have to say how I love that this post started out about how to hold the Staff and School Board accountable and devolved into a post blaming NA parents for the woes of the SA boundary process. A process NA had zero to do with.

NA bashing is getting so old, and clearly isn't getting SA anywhere.

Well, first things first. It was supposed to be a comprehensive boundary process that was supposed to include NA, at least in terms of options school placement, until they whined, were spared, and the process turned into shifting around only SA schools.

No. NA can't happen until Reed opens.

Uh yeah it can, and that was the plan until last spring when aps bobbled the ball, accidentally a spreadsheet showing their hand, and pulled the plug because the whole process was a foregone conclusion.

DP. The plan was originally to redraw all boundaries in 2018, but then phase them in over a few years and revisit boundaries for the quadrant around Reed in 2020. The consequence of this would have been a process not terribly dissimilar to what we have now, where the main focus in 2018 would be around Fleet and everything else would be tentative and not to be implemented until 2021, after the staff reviewed based on more recent data in 2020. The only difference would have been more communities yelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH

It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.

Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools.

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"

It’s funny to me that there are so many posts across various threads that imply that: A. all people who live in north Arlington weighed the pros and cons of living there vs. south Arlington, and B. made a morally suspect choice in choosing the north.

It seems the NA bashers want no families to move to NA, yet take the tax dollars. Hypocritical?

[Anonymous]

NA is a cost center for Arlington, as is all residential housing. A 2 million dollar house doesn't generate enough property tax to offset the costs associated with a family living there. We are all subsidized by commercial real estate and childless millennials living in the R-B corridor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NA is a cost center for Arlington, as is all residential housing. A 2 million dollar house doesn't generate enough property tax to offset the costs associated with a family living there. We are all subsidized by commercial real estate and childless millennials living in the R-B corridor

The truth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just have to say how I love that this post started out about how to hold the Staff and School Board accountable and devolved into a post blaming NA parents for the woes of the SA boundary process. A process NA had zero to do with.

NA bashing is getting so old, and clearly isn't getting SA anywhere.

I wouldn't say NA had NOTHING to do with it. It's the attitudes and perceptions that drove people to NA to avoid the "problem" and thereby exacerbated the situation. And NA pushback against APAH-like projects in THEIR neighborhoods, exacerbating the saturation of low-income housing in SA neighborhoods.

Kind of reaching here but I admire the effort to still blame NA!

OK, then. What has NA done to HELP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH

It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.

Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools.

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"

It’s funny to me that there are so many posts across various threads that imply that: A. all people who live in north Arlington weighed the pros and cons of living there vs. south Arlington, and B. made a morally suspect choice in choosing the north.

It seems the NA bashers want no families to move to NA, yet take the tax dollars. Hypocritical?

HUH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH

It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.

Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools.

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"

It’s funny to me that there are so many posts across various threads that imply that: A. all people who live in north Arlington weighed the pros and cons of living there vs. south Arlington, and B. made a morally suspect choice in choosing the north.

Why? Only a moron wouldn't wonder why the same house costs twice as much in NA. No one buys a house in either place with the intention of raising children without being aware of these differences. It's only morally suspect when NA parents tell SA parents to send their children to a segregated neighborhood schools they themselves wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH

It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.

Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools.

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"

It’s funny to me that there are so many posts across various threads that imply that: A. all people who live in north Arlington weighed the pros and cons of living there vs. south Arlington, and B. made a morally suspect choice in choosing the north.

Why? Only a moron wouldn't wonder why the same house costs twice as much in NA. No one buys a house in either place with the intention of raising children without being aware of these differences. It's only morally suspect when NA parents tell SA parents to send their children to a segregated neighborhood schools they themselves wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

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