APS Elementary boundaries superintendent recommendation

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah that rate is way too low. It doesn’t include farms kids from immersion that stay at new Key either from what I can tell.

OMG. Yep sure it doesn’t. So Title 1 school. Is that by design?

They aren’t consolidating poor kids on purpose. If they were they would throw Woodbury park in there just for fun. It’s because the choice is either to have a high FARMS rate school at Key or to send kids from Rosslyn to Taylor. There aren’t any other options unless we are going to try to work out some upper/lower school situation with ASFS.

They could send kids from Rosslyn to long branch. They could also send the kids from Ashlawn (the Ashlawn tail) to taylor, and have asfs take more of Rosslyn. Or send the Ashlawn tail to long branch and have asfs take more of Rosslyn.
Or they could do an upper/lower school— which I’ve heard most people express support of.
There are lots of options. Aps is too stubborn to do anything even remotely efficiently. Two years from now they will say they can’t balance demographics at key because they don’t want to move any of the planning units that are at key since they just moved them. Ridiculous!

Long Branch isn’t really an option because they are already relatively higher FARMs (moving Rosslyn there would just make them 50% instead) and will need to absorb the new Red Cross development when it comes online https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/former-red-cross-headquarters-site-to-be-redeveloped/

Sending the Ashlawn tail to Taylor isn’t any better than Rosslyn. It’s the same situation of an urban walkable area going to an inaccessible school.

Upper/lower is the only somewhat viable option and they obviously aren’t going to make that happen on a tight timeframe. The choice is Rosslyn to Taylor or New Key as high FARMs.

Isn’t that development in the Barrett walk zone? I’m really disappointed by how we are ok with bussing walkers during a historic budget shortfall.

Yes, it is in the walk zone for Barrett, which is currently full and also already has a 60% FARMs rate. I guess it could go to Barrett if we want that school to be 70%+ FARMs.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah that rate is way too low. It doesn’t include farms kids from immersion that stay at new Key either from what I can tell.

OMG. Yep sure it doesn’t. So Title 1 school. Is that by design?

They aren’t consolidating poor kids on purpose. If they were they would throw Woodbury park in there just for fun. It’s because the choice is either to have a high FARMS rate school at Key or to send kids from Rosslyn to Taylor. There aren’t any other options unless we are going to try to work out some upper/lower school situation with ASFS.

They could send kids from Rosslyn to long branch. They could also send the kids from Ashlawn (the Ashlawn tail) to taylor, and have asfs take more of Rosslyn. Or send the Ashlawn tail to long branch and have asfs take more of Rosslyn.
Or they could do an upper/lower school— which I’ve heard most people express support of.
There are lots of options. Aps is too stubborn to do anything even remotely efficiently. Two years from now they will say they can’t balance demographics at key because they don’t want to move any of the planning units that are at key since they just moved them. Ridiculous!

Long Branch isn’t really an option because they are already relatively higher FARMs (moving Rosslyn there would just make them 50% instead) and will need to absorb the new Red Cross development when it comes online https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/former-red-cross-headquarters-site-to-be-redeveloped/

Sending the Ashlawn tail to Taylor isn’t any better than Rosslyn. It’s the same situation of an urban walkable area going to an inaccessible school.

Upper/lower is the only somewhat viable option and they obviously aren’t going to make that happen on a tight timeframe. The choice is Rosslyn to Taylor or New Key as high FARMs.

Isn’t that development in the Barrett walk zone? I’m really disappointed by how we are ok with bussing walkers during a historic budget shortfall.

Yes, it is in the walk zone for Barrett, which is currently full and also already has a 60% FARMs rate. I guess it could go to Barrett if we want that school to be 70%+ FARMs.

Does it make things more segregated? And protect the wealthy neighborhoods’ home values? Then yes, that is what they’ll do. Welcome to APS!

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Maybe they could do an upper/lower for long branch and Barrett. I didn’t realize Barrett was a title 1 school.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they could do an upper/lower for long branch and Barrett. I didn’t realize Barrett was a title 1 school.

Long branch is 33%, combining them would end up with 50% overall with the Red Cross development. Barrett and Ashlawn would be better, but mostly it’s time to accept that the “South Arlington” school problem is moving to schools in central Arlington as well because of concentrated affordable housing in the R-B corridor.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

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Does it make things more segregated? And protect the wealthy neighborhoods’ home values? Then yes, that is what they’ll do. Welcome to APS!

How about you have a come to Jesus talk with our chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, because he seems to prioritize keeping kids near their assigned schools. Something about access to extracurricular activities or other nonsense. I’m sure you know better and can educate him.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

It has nothing to do with McKinley. Many of the current APS families in 16090 want to stay at Glebe because they don't want to change schools in the middle of a pandemic. Go watch the work session videos because Lisa Stengle explicitly said that they talked to families in 16090 who are currently at Glebe and they don't want to move right now. I get that the preschool parents in 16090 are pitching a fit because god forbid your kids might have to move from Glebe to Reed in 1st grade, but go talk to your neighbors about why they don't want to uproot their kids right now. Distance learning sucks and we'll probably still be doing it through the end of 2021. At the very least, families want to keep their kids with the teachers and support staff that their kids already know because it is extremely difficult to build rapport with new teachers over MS Teams.

Everything is getting re-drawn in two years. Whatever they do now is just temporary to get through the pandemic. That has been made crystal-clear by both Duran and the School Board.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

It has nothing to do with McKinley. Many of the current APS families in 16090 want to stay at Glebe because they don't want to change schools in the middle of a pandemic. Go watch the work session videos because Lisa Stengle explicitly said that they talked to families in 16090 who are currently at Glebe and they don't want to move right now. I get that the preschool parents in 16090 are pitching a fit because god forbid your kids might have to move from Glebe to Reed in 1st grade, but go talk to your neighbors about why they don't want to uproot their kids right now. Distance learning sucks and we'll probably still be doing it through the end of 2021. At the very least, families want to keep their kids with the teachers and support staff that their kids already know because it is extremely difficult to build rapport with new teachers over MS Teams.

Everything is getting re-drawn in two years. Whatever they do now is just temporary to get through the pandemic. That has been made crystal-clear by both Duran and the School Board.

And they made crystal clear in 2016 that the 2018 boundaries would be comprehensive and balance enrollment. Then on 2018 they promised it in 2020. If you have been here long, you would know APS has selective memory and often makes things crystal clear that never happens.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

It has nothing to do with McKinley. Many of the current APS families in 16090 want to stay at Glebe because they don't want to change schools in the middle of a pandemic. Go watch the work session videos because Lisa Stengle explicitly said that they talked to families in 16090 who are currently at Glebe and they don't want to move right now. I get that the preschool parents in 16090 are pitching a fit because god forbid your kids might have to move from Glebe to Reed in 1st grade, but go talk to your neighbors about why they don't want to uproot their kids right now. Distance learning sucks and we'll probably still be doing it through the end of 2021. At the very least, families want to keep their kids with the teachers and support staff that their kids already know because it is extremely difficult to build rapport with new teachers over MS Teams.

Everything is getting re-drawn in two years. Whatever they do now is just temporary to get through the pandemic. That has been made crystal-clear by both Duran and the School Board.

And they made crystal clear in 2016 that the 2018 boundaries would be comprehensive and balance enrollment. Then on 2018 they promised it in 2020. If you have been here long, you would know APS has selective memory and often makes things crystal clear that never happens.

JFC who are you people? There is a freakin PANDEMIC.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

It has nothing to do with McKinley. Many of the current APS families in 16090 want to stay at Glebe because they don't want to change schools in the middle of a pandemic. Go watch the work session videos because Lisa Stengle explicitly said that they talked to families in 16090 who are currently at Glebe and they don't want to move right now. I get that the preschool parents in 16090 are pitching a fit because god forbid your kids might have to move from Glebe to Reed in 1st grade, but go talk to your neighbors about why they don't want to uproot their kids right now. Distance learning sucks and we'll probably still be doing it through the end of 2021. At the very least, families want to keep their kids with the teachers and support staff that their kids already know because it is extremely difficult to build rapport with new teachers over MS Teams.

Everything is getting re-drawn in two years. Whatever they do now is just temporary to get through the pandemic. That has been made crystal-clear by both Duran and the School Board.

And they made crystal clear in 2016 that the 2018 boundaries would be comprehensive and balance enrollment. Then on 2018 they promised it in 2020. If you have been here long, you would know APS has selective memory and often makes things crystal clear that never happens.

JFC who are you people? There is a freakin PANDEMIC.

Perhaps it's the McK parent telling people on NextDoor that ALL of McKinley supports the "move us, not them" plan (blatant lie).

FYI: If you think the 2 year down the road change will actually happen, I have a bridge to see you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

It has nothing to do with McKinley. Many of the current APS families in 16090 want to stay at Glebe because they don't want to change schools in the middle of a pandemic. Go watch the work session videos because Lisa Stengle explicitly said that they talked to families in 16090 who are currently at Glebe and they don't want to move right now. I get that the preschool parents in 16090 are pitching a fit because god forbid your kids might have to move from Glebe to Reed in 1st grade, but go talk to your neighbors about why they don't want to uproot their kids right now. Distance learning sucks and we'll probably still be doing it through the end of 2021. At the very least, families want to keep their kids with the teachers and support staff that their kids already know because it is extremely difficult to build rapport with new teachers over MS Teams.

Everything is getting re-drawn in two years. Whatever they do now is just temporary to get through the pandemic. That has been made crystal-clear by both Duran and the School Board.

And they made crystal clear in 2016 that the 2018 boundaries would be comprehensive and balance enrollment. Then on 2018 they promised it in 2020. If you have been here long, you would know APS has selective memory and often makes things crystal clear that never happens.

JFC who are you people? There is a freakin PANDEMIC.

Perhaps it's the McK parent telling people on NextDoor that ALL of McKinley supports the "move us, not them" plan (blatant lie).

FYI: If you think the 2 year down the road change will actually happen, I have a bridge to see you.

And a pandemic where kids aren’t even physically in a building right now! Seems like next year is the best time to move people. Don’t give me this is already too hard on families. Kids will all be getting to know one another again so it should matter even less that kids are new.

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Moving buildings while we are all out is the perfect time.

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And they made crystal clear in 2016 that the 2018 boundaries would be comprehensive and balance enrollment. Then on 2018 they promised it in 2020. If you have been here long, you would know APS has selective memory and often makes things crystal clear that never happens.

JFC who are you people? There is a freakin PANDEMIC.



ACTUALLY
- 2016 was HS boundaries. Remember Arl. Forest?
- 2017 was MS boundaries. Too many kids at Gunston, not enough at DH and Williamsburg, did they add a program?
- 2018 was boundaries a handful of elementary schools including ABINGDON. Families pushed hard to leave them alone. Board moved Henry parents to Drew instead and NOW Abingdon wants a solution they could have had in 2019-20. Did anyone remind the Board that staff was right?

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Does it make things more segregated? And protect the wealthy neighborhoods’ home values? Then yes, that is what they’ll do. Welcome to APS!

How about you have a come to Jesus talk with our chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, because he seems to prioritize keeping kids near their assigned schools. Something about access to extracurricular activities or other nonsense. I’m sure you know better and can educate him.

How many extracurricular activities do Title 1 schools have compared to schools with wealthy PTAs? It’s almost as if someone believes all the schools are equal and have equitable funding streams that create these opportunities.

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Anonymous wrote:Moving buildings while we are all out is the perfect time.

But why did we move all these programs to find ourselves without balanced capacity and without prioritizing all the walk zones? And having to move programs yet again?