Is Nottingham going to be the new option school in Arlington or its still being decided?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

How would a South Arlington school come to Key?

I was confused by that too. For better or worse it will likely be a neighborhood school. Which means it will serve NE Arlington.
BTW immersion is an east/west split so there are already South Arlington Families at Key.

I think what that PP meant was, that they are worried about their home values, if South Arlington KIDS come to Key.
Which is disgusting! Shame on those people.
And FYI Key has been the immersion school for southeast Arlington for a long time, you can be dead certain you have a lot of South Arlington kids at Key already.

The pp has to be a troll. No one would say that in real life.

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I don't know. I have had two Nott. parents tonight tell me that they don't want to be a choice school b/s it will create 22 buses and their properties will decrease b/c they will, "be bussing in other kids." WTH does that mean? I had to find a way to excuse myself from their convo.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

How would a South Arlington school come to Key?

I was confused by that too. For better or worse it will likely be a neighborhood school. Which means it will serve NE Arlington.
BTW immersion is an east/west split so there are already South Arlington Families at Key.

I think what that PP meant was, that they are worried about their home values, if South Arlington KIDS come to Key.
Which is disgusting! Shame on those people.
And FYI Key has been the immersion school for southeast Arlington for a long time, you can be dead certain you have a lot of South Arlington kids at Key already.

The pp has to be a troll. No one would say that in real life.

Of course they’re trolling, just like the post after yours.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Can we agree that neither a change in Key to neighborhood nor a change in MckinTuckNottDiscov to option will decrease property values? The premise is ridiculous.

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Although I don't agree with the tone of the PP here, I do believe property values will have a negative effect. People will pay a premium to "walk" to their neighborhood school.

I agree as well. But it will be impossible to know the impact for sure. I don’t think their property values will decrease but they may not increase at the rate they would have had their walkable school remained a neighborhood school. Should APS really care about property values? Not really it’s job. Should the CB care? They should care that all of the overcrowding, lack of funds to build schools and the SB who can’t seem to make a plan will lead to a lower percentpion of APS schools. If that happens, all residential property values could take a hit. Again, not a real dollar hit per se. But a dampening of price increases.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. I have had two Nott. parents tonight tell me that they don't want to be a choice school b/s it will create 22 buses and their properties will decrease b/c they will, "be bussing in other kids." WTH does that mean? I had to find a way to excuse myself from their convo.

Were they perhaps referring to VPI classes - all option elementary schools are required to have them.

VPI kids and South Arlington kids. Things do indeed look dire for Nottingham home values!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Honestly, APS probably should move the BRAND NEW science lab, because to not do so will likely stifle FUTURE parent donations and contributions to schools.

The CURRENT parents at ASFS donated hella money at Auctions, fundraisers, etc, which helped the schools performance, which raised its scores and Property values.

We can pretend it’s charity, but people donate to schools for the benefit of their own kids, but the positive impact spreads to other current and future students, so it’s generally a win win. By having a huge swath of people donate for a specific project and then move the ENTIRE student body two years later could curtail future donations. Why give if it really isn’t ‘your’ school, that you could be yanked from on a whim?

Yes, it’s an ugly sentiment, it would be nice if folks donated to APS as a whole or the Rohingya refugees, but school auctions etc are a vital part of school success here, at privates, at places like Palo Alto.

Generally people donate, their kids go thru the school, and voila community property and no one cares. This is s prettty exceptional circumstance, so I can definitely imagine a sour taste and a closed checkbook in the future.

Wonder if Key school had fundraisers for their playground? Similar dynamics could be at play.

It would be nice if disparity between schools was reinforced by donations and auctions, but I don’t think APS as a whole will benefit from cutting it down.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Honestly, APS probably should move the BRAND NEW science lab, because to not do so will likely stifle FUTURE parent donations and contributions to schools.

The CURRENT parents at ASFS donated hella money at Auctions, fundraisers, etc, which helped the schools performance, which raised its scores and Property values.

We can pretend it’s charity, but people donate to schools for the benefit of their own kids, but the positive impact spreads to other current and future students, so it’s generally a win win. By having a huge swath of people donate for a specific project and then move the ENTIRE student body two years later could curtail future donations. Why give if it really isn’t ‘your’ school, that you could be yanked from on a whim?

Yes, it’s an ugly sentiment, it would be nice if folks donated to APS as a whole or the Rohingya refugees, but school auctions etc are a vital part of school success here, at privates, at places like Palo Alto.

Generally people donate, their kids go thru the school, and voila community property and no one cares. This is s prettty exceptional circumstance, so I can definitely imagine a sour taste and a closed checkbook in the future.

Wonder if Key school had fundraisers for their playground? Similar dynamics could be at play.

It would be nice if disparity between schools was reinforced by donations and auctions, but I don’t think APS as a whole will benefit from cutting it down.

I have no idea what your last sentence means.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Can we agree that neither a change in Key to neighborhood nor a change in MckinTuckNottDiscov to option will decrease property values? The premise is ridiculous.

+1

Although I don't agree with the tone of the PP here, I do believe property values will have a negative effect. People will pay a premium to "walk" to their neighborhood school.

I think making Key neighborhood will increase property values. A walkable neighborhood school 2 blocks from the metro and 2 stops from DC.

That’s possible, although property values are sky high there already. I think it will be a good, but not great, neighborhood school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Honestly, APS probably should move the BRAND NEW science lab, because to not do so will likely stifle FUTURE parent donations and contributions to schools.

The CURRENT parents at ASFS donated hella money at Auctions, fundraisers, etc, which helped the schools performance, which raised its scores and Property values.

We can pretend it’s charity, but people donate to schools for the benefit of their own kids, but the positive impact spreads to other current and future students, so it’s generally a win win. By having a huge swath of people donate for a specific project and then move the ENTIRE student body two years later could curtail future donations. Why give if it really isn’t ‘your’ school, that you could be yanked from on a whim?

Yes, it’s an ugly sentiment, it would be nice if folks donated to APS as a whole or the Rohingya refugees, but school auctions etc are a vital part of school success here, at privates, at places like Palo Alto.

Generally people donate, their kids go thru the school, and voila community property and no one cares. This is s prettty exceptional circumstance, so I can definitely imagine a sour taste and a closed checkbook in the future.

Wonder if Key school had fundraisers for their playground? Similar dynamics could be at play.

It would be nice if disparity between schools was reinforced by donations and auctions, but I don’t think APS as a whole will benefit from cutting it down.

I have no idea what your last sentence means.

Sorry forgot a not. Was saying that donations to wealthy schools widened achievement gap with more struggling schools, but stifling donations by destabilizing school communities could cause top performing schools to decline, which would soften home values and funding for all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Honestly, APS probably should move the BRAND NEW science lab, because to not do so will likely stifle FUTURE parent donations and contributions to schools.

The CURRENT parents at ASFS donated hella money at Auctions, fundraisers, etc, which helped the schools performance, which raised its scores and Property values.

We can pretend it’s charity, but people donate to schools for the benefit of their own kids, but the positive impact spreads to other current and future students, so it’s generally a win win. By having a huge swath of people donate for a specific project and then move the ENTIRE student body two years later could curtail future donations. Why give if it really isn’t ‘your’ school, that you could be yanked from on a whim?

Yes, it’s an ugly sentiment, it would be nice if folks donated to APS as a whole or the Rohingya refugees, but school auctions etc are a vital part of school success here, at privates, at places like Palo Alto.

Generally people donate, their kids go thru the school, and voila community property and no one cares. This is s prettty exceptional circumstance, so I can definitely imagine a sour taste and a closed checkbook in the future.

Wonder if Key school had fundraisers for their playground? Similar dynamics could be at play.

It would be nice if disparity between schools was reinforced by donations and auctions, but I don’t think APS as a whole will benefit from cutting it down.

This is utter BS and you have no clue. Twenty plus years of parents donated to ASFS to enhance the facility, not just the current families. When my 21 year old DS started at the school it was basically a blank slate and the courtyard was nothing but concrete and dirt. Years worth of PTA auctions and fundraisers enabled the school to become what the current families inherited. Same goes for the extensive gardens and aquarium. By your logic, the parents of my sons classmates should have taken, for example, the turtle pond, with them to middle school and my youngest son and his classmates should have taken that huge gorgeous aquarium with them to middle school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Honestly, APS probably should move the BRAND NEW science lab, because to not do so will likely stifle FUTURE parent donations and contributions to schools.

The CURRENT parents at ASFS donated hella money at Auctions, fundraisers, etc, which helped the schools performance, which raised its scores and Property values.

We can pretend it’s charity, but people donate to schools for the benefit of their own kids, but the positive impact spreads to other current and future students, so it’s generally a win win. By having a huge swath of people donate for a specific project and then move the ENTIRE student body two years later could curtail future donations. Why give if it really isn’t ‘your’ school, that you could be yanked from on a whim?

Yes, it’s an ugly sentiment, it would be nice if folks donated to APS as a whole or the Rohingya refugees, but school auctions etc are a vital part of school success here, at privates, at places like Palo Alto.

Generally people donate, their kids go thru the school, and voila community property and no one cares. This is s prettty exceptional circumstance, so I can definitely imagine a sour taste and a closed checkbook in the future.

Wonder if Key school had fundraisers for their playground? Similar dynamics could be at play.

It would be nice if disparity between schools was reinforced by donations and auctions, but I don’t think APS as a whole will benefit from cutting it down.

This is utter BS and you have no clue. Twenty plus years of parents donated to ASFS to enhance the facility, not just the current families. When my 21 year old DS started at the school it was basically a blank slate and the courtyard was nothing but concrete and dirt. Years worth of PTA auctions and fundraisers enabled the school to become what the current families inherited. Same goes for the extensive gardens and aquarium. By your logic, the parents of my sons classmates should have taken, for example, the turtle pond, with them to middle school and my youngest son and his classmates should have taken that huge gorgeous aquarium with them to middle school.

So your kids stayed there as long as you expected, from when you made your donation??? All the way to Middle school?

God, you boomers don’t have a clue.

Further, you have no idea the effort and cost of the new science lab, NOTHING like a freaking fish tank.

And I’m not saying it’s a charitable motivation, just that by doing this fast forced community move, in the future parents may be less inclined in the future.

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The science lab upgrade was two years ago. If the school change happens in two more years many of the families who donated will be gone. Some of the big contributors are already gone.

Anyway, the upgrade wasn’t a big deal, mostly cosmetic IMO. I don’t care about the lab but I do care about the curriculum.

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All of ASFS will be moving. There are families who live within the walk zone.

Every school will likely have new boundaries. All. Let that sink in.

Now please stop getting selfish and demanding that we move items between schools. Kids who are at one school in 2020 May get split between 2 or 3 schools depending on how the boundaries shake out. Would you want a precious mural cut in two and taken to the new schools? Aquarium cut in two?

Stop being selfish. We have a capacity crisis and we need people to stop being so parochial and think about the greater good instead of threatening to take their toys home and getting matching shirts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, neighborhood house values will go down. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.

No, they won't, hysterical cow.

Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them. Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough. Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent. Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds.

Honestly, APS probably should move the BRAND NEW science lab, because to not do so will likely stifle FUTURE parent donations and contributions to schools.

The CURRENT parents at ASFS donated hella money at Auctions, fundraisers, etc, which helped the schools performance, which raised its scores and Property values.

We can pretend it’s charity, but people donate to schools for the benefit of their own kids, but the positive impact spreads to other current and future students, so it’s generally a win win. By having a huge swath of people donate for a specific project and then move the ENTIRE student body two years later could curtail future donations. Why give if it really isn’t ‘your’ school, that you could be yanked from on a whim?

Yes, it’s an ugly sentiment, it would be nice if folks donated to APS as a whole or the Rohingya refugees, but school auctions etc are a vital part of school success here, at privates, at places like Palo Alto.

Generally people donate, their kids go thru the school, and voila community property and no one cares. This is s prettty exceptional circumstance, so I can definitely imagine a sour taste and a closed checkbook in the future.

Wonder if Key school had fundraisers for their playground? Similar dynamics could be at play.

It would be nice if disparity between schools was reinforced by donations and auctions, but I don’t think APS as a whole will benefit from cutting it down.

This is utter BS and you have no clue. Twenty plus years of parents donated to ASFS to enhance the facility, not just the current families. When my 21 year old DS started at the school it was basically a blank slate and the courtyard was nothing but concrete and dirt. Years worth of PTA auctions and fundraisers enabled the school to become what the current families inherited. Same goes for the extensive gardens and aquarium. By your logic, the parents of my sons classmates should have taken, for example, the turtle pond, with them to middle school and my youngest son and his classmates should have taken that huge gorgeous aquarium with them to middle school.

So your kids stayed there as long as you expected, from when you made your donation??? All the way to Middle school?

God, you boomers don’t have a clue.

Further, you have no idea the effort and cost of the new science lab, NOTHING like a freaking fish tank.

And I’m not saying it’s a charitable motivation, just that by doing this fast forced community move, in the future parents may be less inclined in the future.

Actually I know I plenty about the cost and effort of the current science lab. I sat in a years worth of PTA meetings at which it was discussed and we made a significant donation to it when my daughter was a fifth grader at the school. At that point it was only at the fundraising stage and my daughter never got the “benefit” of using it at all. Parents make donations to schools for all different reasons. Clearly your generation expects something in return while this “boomer” (and statistically speaking I am not one) is not motivated in that manner.

[Anonymous]

Has there been discussion of hybrid schools? Why not spread out the "option" seats to two or three schools in N. Arlington? Fairfax has schools that house both neighborhood and GT kids.