APS middle school boundary process

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This pisses me off. I will have a 6th and 8th grader in 2019.

Swanson is really far. Bus comes at 7am. Older travel teams (ms/HS) get late practice times.

I end up driving my child because we can leave the house at 7:30am. He sleeps until 7am.

Now I will have one child all the hell way out in Swanson and the other at Stratford. Two start times at two different MS will NOT work.

Draw a hard line and move everyone!! This is what happened to me in Fairfax County when my boundary was changed.

They let fricking twins get into HB under the same rationale--2 kids different places.

You could request an administrative transfer for one of them?

its the beginning of the process. Don't get angry- provide feedback. I have found that at early stages, they are open to feedback. I watched the work session- the SB is particularly looking for feedback on whether to grandfather or move. Or you can ask that they allow 6th graders to stay with 8th grade siblings.
They can't let just a few 8th graders move- they either move all the 8th graders or none of them. A lot of people are opposed to kids moving for their 8th grade year.

There was a new high school in Gainesville. They gave the OPTION of currently enrolled kids zoned for new school to move to new one or stay in current one. It worked out. My nephews were a Junior and Senior both stayed. Their brother 6 years younger started at the new one since he is 6 years behind.

They can most definitely move a portion and they have shown they already have capacity for those that want to stay. Lower class sizes for those kids is a bonus. They can have the HB experience for one year. They have ti have staff in the new school anyways.

That may be great for the families at Stratford, but it puts an extra burden on the remaining Swanson & Williamsburg families since their kids will still be in overcrowded schools while there are empty seats a mile or 2 away.

[Anonymous]

^^ so that means you are advocating the 8th graders bound for Stratford move, correct? I would not care if that happened because then my child that will be a 7th grader that year would stay with his 8th grade brother vs getting shipped out while his 8th grader remained. That just seems weird to me..

[Anonymous]

Yes. I think 8th graders should move. I think the whole school should open as a 3-grade school and instantly provide relief for ALL students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I think 8th graders should move. I think the whole school should open as a 3-grade school and instantly provide relief for ALL students.

+100

They need to take a hard line.

This soft opening crap is a bunch of shit.

[Anonymous]

Will there be a webcast or anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will there be a webcast or anything?

The first one at YHS will be live-streamed.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know when they put the slideshows online. I'd love to look at it before the presentation tonight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when they put the slideshows online. I'd love to look at it before the presentation tonight.

All the information is here: https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-begins-process-resetting-middle-school-boundaries/ including a link to the presentation from the SB Work Session. I haven't seen the presentation for tonight's community meetings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when they put the slideshows online. I'd love to look at it before the presentation tonight.

All the information is here: https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-begins-process-resetting-middle-school-boundaries/ including a link to the presentation from the SB Work Session. I haven't seen the presentation for tonight's community meetings.

Thanks, pp. I don't have a horse in this race, per se, as my kids will go to TJ in almost any scenario, but it seems like this could be a time to finally really shake up the boundaries and make the socioeconomic demographics more equal across schools.

[Anonymous]

Ah, so that's what this is all about! Not over crowded schools. Let the North Arlington students mingle with the South Arlington crowd.

I prefer my hard earned, outrageous, tax dollars be spent on improved schools and curriculums not building and maintaining fleets of buses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when they put the slideshows online. I'd love to look at it before the presentation tonight.

All the information is here: https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-begins-process-resetting-middle-school-boundaries/ including a link to the presentation from the SB Work Session. I haven't seen the presentation for tonight's community meetings.

Thanks, pp. I don't have a horse in this race, per se, as my kids will go to TJ in almost any scenario, but it seems like this could be a time to finally really shake up the boundaries and make the socioeconomic demographics more equal across schools.

So you do have a fog in this fight, you want them to raise your GS rating of your zoned school.

[Anonymous]

If our DS is going to be shuffled away from his friends any way by some inane rezoning scheme we will just move to fcps.

I guess that is one way to address overcrowding

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when they put the slideshows online. I'd love to look at it before the presentation tonight.

All the information is here: https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-begins-process-resetting-middle-school-boundaries/ including a link to the presentation from the SB Work Session. I haven't seen the presentation for tonight's community meetings.

Thanks, pp. I don't have a horse in this race, per se, as my kids will go to TJ in almost any scenario, but it seems like this could be a time to finally really shake up the boundaries and make the socioeconomic demographics more equal across schools.

So you do have a fog in this fight, you want them to raise your GS rating of your zoned school.

Um, no. Not low income students have the same GS scores at TJ and at Swanson (I just looked it up). So my UMC kid will likely do fine at any school. Low income kids do better when they aren't all in one school.

Given that so many kids have to ride busses already, APS should use the rezoning process to balance things out a bit.

[Anonymous]

^^ no they should not. Kids should attend the schools closest to their homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ no they should not. Kids should attend the schools closest to their homes.

Dp- no, we should end socioeconomic segregation