Thinking about moving, so kids can go to Yorktown for HS instead of Wakefield -- pros? cons?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Without getting into Wakefield vs. Yorktown or other options, Arlington will currently let you do this for free. If you are about to be at the high school years, you can just apply to transfer and have your DC transported to Yorktown.

https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/ - and check the waiver, neither Wakefield nor Yorktown is close to 120%. No guarantees about five years from now.

That sounds like an awesome option, your child can spend an excessive amount of time traveling to and from school every day, and then be no where near his friends during non-school hours.

Hey retard. Arlington is 26 square miles. No one is commuting all day anywhere.

Wow, classy. I didn't say anything about all day, I said "excessive." How long do you think it's going to take that bus to meander all through the Wakefield zone to bring kids to and from Yorktown every day, as opposed to the time it would take to get straight to and from Wakefield? I wouldn't be too keen on my child spending 1.5-2 hours on the bus every day. After all, it's not like the Yorktown kids are going to be hauling themselves to south Arlington all the time to give their friends rides home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Without getting into Wakefield vs. Yorktown or other options, Arlington will currently let you do this for free. If you are about to be at the high school years, you can just apply to transfer and have your DC transported to Yorktown.

https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/ - and check the waiver, neither Wakefield nor Yorktown is close to 120%. No guarantees about five years from now.

That sounds like an awesome option, your child can spend an excessive amount of time traveling to and from school every day, and then be no where near his friends during non-school hours.

Huh. Selling your house and buying another one, just for a different school, is totally reasonable, but a slightly longer bus ride isn't?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Without getting into Wakefield vs. Yorktown or other options, Arlington will currently let you do this for free. If you are about to be at the high school years, you can just apply to transfer and have your DC transported to Yorktown.

https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/ - and check the waiver, neither Wakefield nor Yorktown is close to 120%. No guarantees about five years from now.

That sounds like an awesome option, your child can spend an excessive amount of time traveling to and from school every day, and then be no where near his friends during non-school hours.

Hey retard. Arlington is 26 square miles. No one is commuting all day anywhere.

You can't be serious with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Without getting into Wakefield vs. Yorktown or other options, Arlington will currently let you do this for free. If you are about to be at the high school years, you can just apply to transfer and have your DC transported to Yorktown.

https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/ - and check the waiver, neither Wakefield nor Yorktown is close to 120%. No guarantees about five years from now.

That sounds like an awesome option, your child can spend an excessive amount of time traveling to and from school every day, and then be no where near his friends during non-school hours.

Plenty of kids do this for private school, including mine who lives 3 blocks from W-L, but takes metro to private HS in DC, and has friends all over the metro area, including his friends from going to our neighborhood elementary and middle schools. I see no big deal doing this for public either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Without getting into Wakefield vs. Yorktown or other options, Arlington will currently let you do this for free. If you are about to be at the high school years, you can just apply to transfer and have your DC transported to Yorktown.

https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/ - and check the waiver, neither Wakefield nor Yorktown is close to 120%. No guarantees about five years from now.

That sounds like an awesome option, your child can spend an excessive amount of time traveling to and from school every day, and then be no where near his friends during non-school hours.

Hey retard. Arlington is 26 square miles. No one is commuting all day anywhere.

Wow, classy. I didn't say anything about all day, I said "excessive." How long do you think it's going to take that bus to meander all through the Wakefield zone to bring kids to and from Yorktown every day, as opposed to the time it would take to get straight to and from Wakefield? I wouldn't be too keen on my child spending 1.5-2 hours on the bus every day. After all, it's not like the Yorktown kids are going to be hauling themselves to south Arlington all the time to give their friends rides home.

Side note, aps bus have a shortage on bus drivers. My kid is already spending almost 2 hours a day in a bus. Couldn't imagine going from south to north Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Con to Yorktown - the drug problem (pills)

[Anonymous]

Wakefield is ghetto

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Go to bed kids. You have school in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Without getting into Wakefield vs. Yorktown or other options, Arlington will currently let you do this for free. If you are about to be at the high school years, you can just apply to transfer and have your DC transported to Yorktown.

https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/ - and check the waiver, neither Wakefield nor Yorktown is close to 120%. No guarantees about five years from now.

No bus for transfers is my understanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Con to Yorktown - the drug problem (pills)

Drugs are not a problem limited to Yorktown.

[Anonymous]

We move from S. Arlington N. Arlington because we didn't like our elementary option. We are really happy with our elementary school. That being said, WMS is very overcrowded so we are thinking of a S. ARL middle school option. We are zoned for Yorktown, but I have heard great things about Wakefield and wouldn't count it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We move from S. Arlington N. Arlington because we didn't like our elementary option. We are really happy with our elementary school. That being said, WMS is very overcrowded so we are thinking of a S. ARL middle school option. We are zoned for Yorktown, but I have heard great things about Wakefield and wouldn't count it out.

This is like looking into the possible future for my family. We are zoned to a terrible elementary, then TJ and Wakefield. We are satisfied with middle and high school but never planned to use the elementary school. Now they are making it ( Randolph) a choice school and I have no idea what that will mean. Hard to make plans. We really don't want to leave, but there is so much uncertainty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We move from S. Arlington N. Arlington because we didn't like our elementary option. We are really happy with our elementary school. That being said, WMS is very overcrowded so we are thinking of a S. ARL middle school option. We are zoned for Yorktown, but I have heard great things about Wakefield and wouldn't count it out.

This is like looking into the possible future for my family. We are zoned to a terrible elementary, then TJ and Wakefield. We are satisfied with middle and high school but never planned to use the elementary school. Now they are making it ( Randolph) a choice school and I have no idea what that will mean. Hard to make plans. We really don't want to leave, but there is so much uncertainty.

If Randolph becomes a choice school it won't be for several years so depending on the age of your child it may be a moot point. The demographics (especially the transient nature of some of the apartment communities), which are hard to change in that spot, affect the test scores, but I do know parents who are happy there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We move from S. Arlington N. Arlington because we didn't like our elementary option. We are really happy with our elementary school. That being said, WMS is very overcrowded so we are thinking of a S. ARL middle school option. We are zoned for Yorktown, but I have heard great things about Wakefield and wouldn't count it out.

This is like looking into the possible future for my family. We are zoned to a terrible elementary, then TJ and Wakefield. We are satisfied with middle and high school but never planned to use the elementary school. Now they are making it ( Randolph) a choice school and I have no idea what that will mean. Hard to make plans. We really don't want to leave, but there is so much uncertainty.

If Randolph becomes a choice school it won't be for several years so depending on the age of your child it may be a moot point. The demographics (especially the transient nature of some of the apartment communities), which are hard to change in that spot, affect the test scores, but I do know parents who are happy there.

Also, with Henry moving to TJ, Montessori to the old Henry building, making Drew a regular neighborhood school, there will be a bunch of boundary changes in S. Arlington. If they make Randolph a choice school at the same time, it's hard to say what ES you would end up zoned to. That's all supposed to happen for the 2019 school year.

[Anonymous]

I would guess you would likely end up districted to Drew or MAYBE Barcroft. My understanding is that the idea of opening Randolph up as choice is somewhat longer term than the boundary changes in 2019 (which is extremely confusing because of the coming boundary and it may not actually happen). If you live in the neighborhood and want to send your kid to Randolph (and I understand it sounds like you don't) you will likely still be able to no matter what. I have no inside information though.