APS middle school boundary process

[Anonymous]

Loved the old guy from Maywood last night who spoke up about diversity now that his kids are all grown up. From Lilly white Maywood, classic.

[Anonymous]

They should redraw walk zones to 1 mile,but they refuse for some reason.

[Anonymous]

I say--let Swanson be overcrowded. Pretty much every remaining planning unit has complained in the last 3 months about the possibility of being redistricted to Kenmore or Williamsburg. So, just tell your kids to enjoy their walk to school and then squeeze them into the building. This is your doing. Please don't whine about it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say--let Swanson be overcrowded. Pretty much every remaining planning unit has complained in the last 3 months about the possibility of being redistricted to Kenmore or Williamsburg. So, just tell your kids to enjoy their walk to school and then squeeze them into the building. This is your doing. Please don't whine about it now.

No. This is not my doing. I live close enough to Swanson that my planning unit was never under consideration. Hurray the people aren’t trying to flee, but there I st isn’t room for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say--let Swanson be overcrowded. Pretty much every remaining planning unit has complained in the last 3 months about the possibility of being redistricted to Kenmore or Williamsburg. So, just tell your kids to enjoy their walk to school and then squeeze them into the building. This is your doing. Please don't whine about it now.

No. This is not my doing. I live close enough to Swanson that my planning unit was never under consideration. Hurray the people aren’t trying to flee, but there I st isn’t room for everyone.

Then go blame your fellow Swanson families who are shouting to stay there rather than the Williamsburg families who, frankly, have been pretty silent in this whole thing. Everyone likes to demonize them but really, look where the noise is coming from. The only Williamsburg families who got vocal in this were the handful who would have been moved to Swanson under a couple of maps despite being less than a mile from Williamsburg (and those maps wouldn't have balanced the schools from a diversity standpoint, it would have just made Swanson the single-digit ED school instead of Williamsburg). Other than that, you're getting nothing. No one there is saying we don't want more PUs coming in, no one is trying to keep others out, heck, the Nottingham PTA didn't even take a position on the boundary issue, they stayed neutral. Yes, it's easy to do that when you know your kids are going to be fine either way, but they haven't been fighting the options that aren't as favorable to them. But I guess it's easier to blame them than your own neighbors, your kids' friends' families, the parents you worked with on the PTA, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should redraw walk zones to 1 mile,but they refuse for some reason.

Because transportation costs would skyrocket but they wouldn't get more money from the CB to cover it so they'd have to pull money from the classrooms to fund it. Do you want more buses, or do you want your kids studying from the current editions of textbooks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should redraw walk zones to 1 mile,but they refuse for some reason.

Because transportation costs would skyrocket but they wouldn't get more money from the CB to cover it so they'd have to pull money from the classrooms to fund it. Do you want more buses, or do you want your kids studying from the current editions of textbooks?

If the cb has enough money to find AH and illegal immigrants, they can buy books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should redraw walk zones to 1 mile,but they refuse for some reason.

Because transportation costs would skyrocket but they wouldn't get more money from the CB to cover it so they'd have to pull money from the classrooms to fund it. Do you want more buses, or do you want your kids studying from the current editions of textbooks?

The don't need textbooks anymore. They have personal learning devices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say--let Swanson be overcrowded. Pretty much every remaining planning unit has complained in the last 3 months about the possibility of being redistricted to Kenmore or Williamsburg. So, just tell your kids to enjoy their walk to school and then squeeze them into the building. This is your doing. Please don't whine about it now.

No. This is not my doing. I live close enough to Swanson that my planning unit was never under consideration. Hurray the people aren’t trying to flee, but there I st isn’t room for everyone.

Cry me a river. They're making Kenmore the most crowded and poorest of all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should redraw walk zones to 1 mile,but they refuse for some reason.

Because transportation costs would skyrocket but they wouldn't get more money from the CB to cover it so they'd have to pull money from the classrooms to fund it. Do you want more buses, or do you want your kids studying from the current editions of textbooks?

If the cb has enough money to find AH and illegal immigrants, they can buy books.

But the CB doesn't. It's been a long-standing issue for APS, that the CB keeps allowing projects that put increased strain on the schools but then refuses to send additional money to meet the needs it has created. There is no way the CB is going to increase funding just so fewer kids have to walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should redraw walk zones to 1 mile,but they refuse for some reason.

Because transportation costs would skyrocket but they wouldn't get more money from the CB to cover it so they'd have to pull money from the classrooms to fund it. Do you want more buses, or do you want your kids studying from the current editions of textbooks?

The don't need textbooks anymore. They have personal learning devices.

You know that they still need to pay for licenses for all of the educational apps they use on those personal learning devices, right?

[Anonymous]

I don't always agree with him, but James Lander's comments resonated with me last night. He made the point that what the SB has consistently heard is that no one, regardless of race, income, etc., wants their kids bussed, and no one who is complaining is volunteering to have their kid transfer & be bussed for diversity's sake.

I think the SB's hands are tied here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't always agree with him, but James Lander's comments resonated with me last night. He made the point that what the SB has consistently heard is that no one, regardless of race, income, etc., wants their kids bussed, and no one who is complaining is volunteering to have their kid transfer & be bussed for diversity's sake.

I think the SB's hands are tied here.

Yes, exactly. The burden should always be on someone else to fix, no one's willing to take it on themselves.

I was looking at elementary boundaries last night, contemplating what might happen when they open the Reed School, and realized that with the PUs now broken up, we will probably be rezoned into a different elementary school when our youngest will be starting fourth grade (so probably no grandfathering there). That makes me sad, because we've been at our elementary school for years, it's our community and I hate the idea of not finishing our elementary years there. But I also see a whole host of reasons why it would be the most sensible option, and I get that it's not all about me and what I want, it's about everyone. So when those maps come out and they have us moving to a different school, I will keep my mouth shut and accept it because it's the right choice, even if it's not what i want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loved the old guy from Maywood last night who spoke up about diversity now that his kids are all grown up. From Lilly white Maywood, classic.

Jackwagon, he has kids in school currently. He's a respected member of the community and co-chair of the Arlington Civic Federation School's Committee. Also, if he's been in Arlington long enough it's entirely possible that he's watched the area he lives in and the schools his home is zoned to become less and less diverse. He's allowed to feel how he feels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should redraw walk zones to 1 mile,but they refuse for some reason.

Because transportation costs would skyrocket but they wouldn't get more money from the CB to cover it so they'd have to pull money from the classrooms to fund it. Do you want more buses, or do you want your kids studying from the current editions of textbooks?

The don't need textbooks anymore. They have personal learning devices.

You know that they still need to pay for licenses for all of the educational apps they use on those personal learning devices, right?

Yes, and just where do you think they're cutting the budget to do so? Transportation. And it's why APS pays for fewer field trips. Who needs to GO anywhere, when you can just look at it online?