APS Closing Nottingham

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

It also does make sense to use it as an option school.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I’m sure this is all driven by some 7-year grudge that APS holds against Nottingham. Not the need to renovate schools or the fact that even the Nottingham families on here admit that families have gone private in droves. Do you realize how crazy you sound?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We get it, the McCrazies are now the ones who hate this ape group. Now, back to the topic of Nottingham....

Is this what you APEs tell yourselves in your insular privileged little group? You really have no idea how the rest of Arlington perceives you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get it, the McCrazies are now the ones who hate this ape group. Now, back to the topic of Nottingham....

Is this what you APEs tell yourselves in your insular privileged little group? You really have no idea how the rest of Arlington perceives you?

It would see they are perceived quite well given their founder is going to be on the school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get it, the McCrazies are now the ones who hate this ape group. Now, back to the topic of Nottingham....

Is this what you APEs tell yourselves in your insular privileged little group? You really have no idea how the rest of Arlington perceives you?

It would see they are perceived quite well given their founder is going to be on the school board.

Only because she was running against a child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

It also does make sense to use it as an option school.

I love the idea of moving Campbell up there in a few years. Those seats are desperately needed as neighborhood seats in that part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

They were going to redo all the boundaries but then with Covid everyone demanded the bare minimum - including squeezing as many people into Cardinal as possible because it would be too traumatic to change schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

It also does make sense to use it as an option school.

I love the idea of moving Campbell up there in a few years. Those seats are desperately needed as neighborhood seats in that part of the county.

How can the Campbell program be moved? You can’t relocate the outdoor environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

Good post. Yes, the simplest and least expensive option would have been moved ATS to the Reed School (no Cardinal). Adding another neighborhood school in an area already dense with neighborhood schools was unwise. It's time to rectify mistakes, not make new ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

It also does make sense to use it as an option school.

I love the idea of moving Campbell up there in a few years. Those seats are desperately needed as neighborhood seats in that part of the county.

How can the Campbell program be moved? You can’t relocate the outdoor environment.

There's no "outdoor environment" at the current Nottingham site? I am guessing expeditionary learning activities can be done, well, outside, and that's not specific to one school that's next to a nature center. I'm sure Campbell is a wonderful program, but it's a countywide program located in a spot that's not convenient to most of the county. The seats in that building are needed as neighborhood seats.

[Anonymous]

Newsflash. Nottingham is not convenient to most of the county either!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash. Nottingham is not convenient to most of the county either!

But we don’t need seats there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

+1. Exactly. What APS keeps missing is that, if the south-based option schools move north into a place as inconvenient as Nottingham, they will likely just become more attractive to local parents and do very little to alleviate the overcrowding in the south. Someone on here posted that ATS is more popular with parents north of 50 which surprised me. That’s our “marquee” option, and it’s just shuffling around kids who have already have a seat at a uncrowded neighborhood school? Makes you wonder why we need it at all.

Let’s put it this way- if Nottingham becomes option, people in that pocket who were not at all interested in option schools will suddenly become very interested. Unless you plan to rig the lotto so those people get last choice, it’s likely the school will end up getting repopulated with people in the immediate area. Especially if it’s for something as weird as Campbell that doesn’t have an innate draw. And if you’re rigging the lotto what does that say about fair access and equity?

But then again, I’m sure APS will have some blather about equity and racism that isn’t rooted in any realty and ignores the southern parents that just want their kids to have good local schools. It’s easier to start these side shows than, for example, try to convince the Fairlington area Boomers that they should drive a little bit further for their fitness classes for the greater good of their young neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aps is playing the long con….

They wanted to convert Nottingham to an option school seven years ago when they first started talking about “school moves”; that was squashed by the school board.

They made really irresponsible boundaries that left Nottingham largely empty when they opened cardinal.

They use the fact that the school “is empty” to justify turning it into swing space. In three years, I would bet money they propose moving campbell or mpsa there to create more seats in south Arlington. Ta da! Nottingham is an option school!

I am so glad I’m not the only nut who thought this.

[Anonymous]

If Nottingham hadn't fought so hard against being an option school 7 years ago, and had allowed the board to make it an option school since that was the best plan geographically, we could have avoided a bunch of the school reshuffling nonsense that's happened since then. But noooooo, Nottingham was too precious. Love how the PP above turned this into the fault of Cardinal/McKinley, when the problem happened in the first place because of selfish Nottingham parents.

Now the school is dreadfully underenrolled and even now Nottingham parents cannot seem to accept reality. Under 400 kids!! A kindergarten enrollment last year at 50 kids -- that's just 2 classes -- and similar numbers in another higher grade. The plan is not to scrap the school, but to use it on a temporary basis to help other schools in the community while the Nottingham kids go to other walkable nearby schools like Discovery! And even then, listen to these parents squeal as though their families are being torn apart and some terrible injustice has been done to them.

Have some perspective and just deal. Worse things have happened in Arlington. Your kids will be perfectly fine. As well as your property values. smdh