APS middle school boundary process
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Anonymous
It is a very good school, with not-overwhelming problems. People talk a lot of smack due to who knows what motivations, and other people believe that smack. Teachers- mostly great, like any other Arlington middle school; drugs- a few kids, maybe more than other middle schools because of easy money; gangs- no. |
Anonymous
As the poster you referenced, if Reid Goldstein actually puts out a viable alternative proposal to address his concerns, I will give him credit for that. As for the poster you're responding to as a supposed counterpoint, sure, go ahead and bus kids all over the place in the name of whatever goal you'd like. As a Williamsburg parent, I have no problem with them adding more kids to that school. But part of presenting a solution means identifying who you think should be bused. Which of the communities that have specifically said they would rather go to a more-crowded school within walking distance than a less-crowded school by bus should have to move? That's the hard part of the SB's job, and the part that everyone likes to criticize them for but no one's willing to stand up and do themselves, even just to throw out a possibility in a community forum. |
Anonymous
If families were doing everything possible not to go there, the Williamsburg area wouldn't have some of the highest home values in the area. Don't take anonymous internet posters as necessarily representative of the population as a whole. |
Anonymous
| I thought for sure that they would do the right thing. I am just shocked at how this process has gone. We are leaving the county. I’m absolutely disgusted. |
Anonymous
As evidenced by this thread, there is no objective “right thing.” |
Anonymous
Cool. Fewer kids in the system is better for everyone else. |
Anonymous
The right thing certainly isn't putting one school at 111% capacity while the next one over is at 89%. Disgusting. |
Anonymous
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I just watched the public hearing.
I honestly feel like people are way overwrought about needing to go to middle school with their elementary school friends. Do these people never move? This is a transient area. I'm curious if these hysterical parents plan to apply to HB. My friends changed from elementary school to middle school. My DH moved constantly. I fully expect that my children will be going to a different middle school than many of their elementary school friends. While I get that alignment is nice to have- I don't get the overwhelming angst. |
Anonymous
Snowflake culture. Their children are far too precious to cope with the slightest adversity. Combine that with an unhealthy dose of privilege so that they have no clue what actual adversity looks like, and you end up with people crying at board meetings over which very good school their child will get to go to. |
Anonymous
A lovely family, with more children then we, is buying our house. |
Anonymous
You decided in the last few days to leave the county over this and already have a buyer for your house? That's a load of bullshit. |
Anonymous
I suspect that it is mostly about logistics. Williamsburg is out of the way for most families where both parents work, esp if both parents are in DC. Your kid misses the bus-- WMS is a lot of backtracking. And you can easily swing by Swanson or Stratford on the way home and pick up your kid from an afterschool activity or check-in. Not so much with WMS. Also, Swanson and Stratford are accessible via public transport, while WMS is not (or at least not as easily). And with DC traffic, those extra 15-20 min can make a big difference when you are trying to make a morning meeting in DC or a 6pm pickup time. |
Anonymous
I cannot find this. Could you someone please post a link? Thanks! |
Anonymous
https://www.apsva.us/post/school-board-meeting-nov-30-2017/ |
Anonymous
Thank you! |