APS School Bd Mtg

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In a best case scenario, Ed center could be gutted and remodeled to house a full pre-K to 8th grade Montessori program. It would increase traffic but may resolve some of the complaints of the WL parents over a mega high school. The entire career center site could be used for a 4th comprehensive high school. There is no perfect solution.

You must mean elementary school parents. Many W-L parents support growing the school within reason, and with the necessary facilities to support a larger population.

Ofd course current parents support growing the school. It won't be over sized until they are long gone .

Bingo. And then there houses stay in bounds for resale. Of course they support it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a best case scenario, Ed center could be gutted and remodeled to house a full pre-K to 8th grade Montessori program. It would increase traffic but may resolve some of the complaints of the WL parents over a mega high school. The entire career center site could be used for a 4th comprehensive high school. There is no perfect solution.

You must mean elementary school parents. Many W-L parents support growing the school within reason, and with the necessary facilities to support a larger population.

The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

My taxes are paying for your kids' school. Why are you the only one that gets a say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

My taxes are paying for your kids' school. Why are you the only one that gets a say?

BS, they don't raise appraisals as fast for the olds as young families who are buying homes at full freight. And most of these families are buying homes worth much more than shack and are paying more than their fair share of taxes, and we pay more than enough for the ridiculous senior programs at places liike Madison (freaking ghost town at a prime location and so much land) and supporting the police and city services from all the DINKs partying in Clarendon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a best case scenario, Ed center could be gutted and remodeled to house a full pre-K to 8th grade Montessori program. It would increase traffic but may resolve some of the complaints of the WL parents over a mega high school. The entire career center site could be used for a 4th comprehensive high school. There is no perfect solution.

You must mean elementary school parents. Many W-L parents support growing the school within reason, and with the necessary facilities to support a larger population.

The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

The ES and MS parents were polled by W-L's PTA, those in the W-L school pyramid, and the majority supported growing W-L in a addition to building a 4th high school and boundary changes.

[Anonymous]

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The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

But the parents of older kids are the ones who have lived with high school aged kids and know what does and doesn't cause problems.

Remember how during the Stratford/Wilson debate, all those parents of second graders were worried about where kids would have recess at Wilson?

Middle school. Recess.

(That's not to say that there weren't other reasons to decide against Wilson MS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

But the parents of older kids are the ones who have lived with high school aged kids and know what does and doesn't cause problems.

Remember how during the Stratford/Wilson debate, all those parents of second graders were worried about where kids would have recess at Wilson?

Middle school. Recess.

(That's not to say that there weren't other reasons to decide against Wilson MS)

I may not have teenagers, but I do know that distance learning and shifts are a crap idea and are a cop out we will have to utilize because APS kicked the can for too long. Also, I was a teenager who went to a mega school. It was a magnet school, and even as someone who was part of the smaller program within a very large school, it was not a positive experience for me. Many were fine, but I was not. Remains to be seen whether my children are like me in this regard, but we moved to Arlington because I hoped to avoid finding out the hard way. We'll put in for HB and if that doesn't work I guess we'll explore private options.

[Anonymous]

The poor planning in APS (lots of bells and whistles, and bragging about class sizes and teacher salaries, while neglecting capital needs and student achievement at the MS/HS levels) has been obvious for years. We were happy to get out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

But the parents of older kids are the ones who have lived with high school aged kids and know what does and doesn't cause problems.

Remember how during the Stratford/Wilson debate, all those parents of second graders were worried about where kids would have recess at Wilson?

Middle school. Recess.

(That's not to say that there weren't other reasons to decide against Wilson MS)

I may not have teenagers, but I do know that distance learning and shifts are a crap idea and are a cop out we will have to utilize because APS kicked the can for too long. Also, I was a teenager who went to a mega school. It was a magnet school, and even as someone who was part of the smaller program within a very large school, it was not a positive experience for me. Many were fine, but I was not. Remains to be seen whether my children are like me in this regard, but we moved to Arlington because I hoped to avoid finding out the hard way. We'll put in for HB and if that doesn't work I guess we'll explore private options.

No one is proposing high school in shifts or distance learning as a solution. They were talked about earlier but never should have been brought up in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

But the parents of older kids are the ones who have lived with high school aged kids and know what does and doesn't cause problems.

Remember how during the Stratford/Wilson debate, all those parents of second graders were worried about where kids would have recess at Wilson?

Middle school. Recess.

(That's not to say that there weren't other reasons to decide against Wilson MS)

I may not have teenagers, but I do know that distance learning and shifts are a crap idea and are a cop out we will have to utilize because APS kicked the can for too long. Also, I was a teenager who went to a mega school. It was a magnet school, and even as someone who was part of the smaller program within a very large school, it was not a positive experience for me. Many were fine, but I was not. Remains to be seen whether my children are like me in this regard, but we moved to Arlington because I hoped to avoid finding out the hard way. We'll put in for HB and if that doesn't work I guess we'll explore private options.

No one is proposing high school in shifts or distance learning as a solution. They were talked about earlier but never should have been brought up in the first place.

Get real. WTF do you think "early college" is?

[Anonymous]

I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The ES parents and preschool parents should be the ONLY ones with any say since it will be our kids who have to live with the decisions.

But the parents of older kids are the ones who have lived with high school aged kids and know what does and doesn't cause problems.

Remember how during the Stratford/Wilson debate, all those parents of second graders were worried about where kids would have recess at Wilson?

Middle school. Recess.

(That's not to say that there weren't other reasons to decide against Wilson MS)

I may not have teenagers, but I do know that distance learning and shifts are a crap idea and are a cop out we will have to utilize because APS kicked the can for too long. Also, I was a teenager who went to a mega school. It was a magnet school, and even as someone who was part of the smaller program within a very large school, it was not a positive experience for me. Many were fine, but I was not. Remains to be seen whether my children are like me in this regard, but we moved to Arlington because I hoped to avoid finding out the hard way. We'll put in for HB and if that doesn't work I guess we'll explore private options.

No one is proposing high school in shifts or distance learning as a solution. They were talked about earlier but never should have been brought up in the first place.

Get real. WTF do you think "early college" is?

Then write the board and let them know it's a bad idea. I will too. Early College has not been voted on and it's not on tonight's agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Get real. WTF do you think "early college" is?

Then write the board and let them know it's a bad idea. I will too. Early College has not been voted on and it's not on tonight's agenda.

Write the Board NOW, today, this afternoon and urge them NOT to vote tonight on renewing Murphy's contract. There is zero need to do this now. Press Lander to do the right thing as he did four years ago. Press Tallento not to suck up to NVD. There is no way that they can look at this and in good faith think they gave sufficient notice for public comment. Never mind that he's done an awful job and not held his staff to account for their poor work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget? I want to run. Enough of this crap. I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.