APS 2021-2022 boundary-adjustments

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Anonymous wrote:What would happen if we did it like everywhere else and had sensible feeder bounders? 2 MS to each HS.

So TJ and Gunston to Wakefield
Swanson and Kenmore to WL
Hamm and Williamsburg to Yorkdown

What are the demographics under that scenario?

Now that we have 6 MSs, that seems like the approach that would make sense, though APS is not big on that.

The neighborhood that WL is located in is zoned for Hamm. I think maybe having Kenmore go to Yorktown, and having all of Hamm go to WL would make more sense.

These are bigger changes than what they should do this year though -- the projections are horrible. Seriously ridiculously off. They predicted that Innovation would be at 98% capacity (that was the justification for not moving all of ASFS there, which would have left a lot of flexibility for a future rezoning since then they could have said that innovation wasn't the new school but asfs was). Innovation has less than 400 kids! That's at 4/6th capacity. ASFS is at 80% capacity. They thought it was going to be over capacity this year. Who knows if thats just COVID and the kids are coming back, but the projections are WRONG. We should not be disrupting kids who have already had a tough time during the pandemic using numbers that are this off. They should change as little as possible, and then kick it down the line at least two years until they figure out who is coming back from private.

I agree with you that a complete overhaul is needed. APS knows it; but they've been kicking that can down the road for years already. But I also agree that doing it now based on weird enrollment patterns from COVID and VL, etc. is a bad idea and will only cause more frustration and chaos in a few years. They simply need to acknowledge that they should build a fourth high school and go ahead and build it for heaven's sake. NOT a special program. NOT a virtual academy. NOT another small option school. Just build a friggin' comprehensive high school and give all of our kids reprieve from crowded, large high schools.

Nevertheless, I don't know that I agree with you re having all of Hamm go to WL and having Kenmore go to YHS. Have you really thought about that and what that entails? It entails hundreds of students south of 50 and on the west side of the County bussing up to YHS while most of the NE corner goes to centrally located WL. Nice for you - I assume you're in that little Hamm area. Though I honestly don't get why WL seems to be the holy grail of Arlington and everyone seems to prefer to be zoned there.

We are never getting a 4th high school in our lifetime. They will point to current drop as justification to not build it and hold up DL and Tech as ways to manage any return of population growth. Imagine all Freshmen in a huge introductory English course via DL, lectured at like online university. That’s the fallback if they need space. Count on it.

We all like to trash APS here; and sure APS makes it easy and gives us lots of material. But come on. "in our lifetime"? Either the system tanks and people withdraw until enrollment evens out, OR, they put it off as long as possible and try shift schedules or massive DL to avoid it. All those alternatives are going to be disastrous admissions of failure, and that will become apparent after a year or two. If that happens the system will find the political will to build the high school because the alternative would be to admit that APS is second-rate and more like ACPS than FFX. The central office and County Board can't abide that; their entire self-concept is based on Arlington being special and better. Now, I think recent years show us they are more concerned with the perception of being better than the actual reality, but reality has a way of catching up and breaking through perceptions like that. When that happens they'll decide to do something about it.

The problem with your theory is the fact that APS never admits failure.

Do you really think they won’t cast evening shift schedules (“more flexible for students and families”) and DL (“education for the 21st century”) as positives?

The County Board does not prioritize schools anymore, as the population becomes more young DINKs in apartments and condos. Only 30% of Households have families, schools are no longer important to the Arlington Way. Getting to save $millions by not building a huge new high school (and shoulder the risk that student population could decline again since millennials are having fewer kids and thus have empty new built classrooms). They want the easy way out, and there is no downside for them by not building, saving money, and warehousing kids on the Ed Center and at home, rather than in adequate classrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:What would happen if we did it like everywhere else and had sensible feeder bounders? 2 MS to each HS.

So TJ and Gunston to Wakefield
Swanson and Kenmore to WL
Hamm and Williamsburg to Yorkdown

What are the demographics under that scenario?

Now that we have 6 MSs, that seems like the approach that would make sense, though APS is not big on that.

The neighborhood that WL is located in is zoned for Hamm. I think maybe having Kenmore go to Yorktown, and having all of Hamm go to WL would make more sense.

These are bigger changes than what they should do this year though -- the projections are horrible. Seriously ridiculously off. They predicted that Innovation would be at 98% capacity (that was the justification for not moving all of ASFS there, which would have left a lot of flexibility for a future rezoning since then they could have said that innovation wasn't the new school but asfs was). Innovation has less than 400 kids! That's at 4/6th capacity. ASFS is at 80% capacity. They thought it was going to be over capacity this year. Who knows if thats just COVID and the kids are coming back, but the projections are WRONG. We should not be disrupting kids who have already had a tough time during the pandemic using numbers that are this off. They should change as little as possible, and then kick it down the line at least two years until they figure out who is coming back from private.

I agree with you that a complete overhaul is needed. APS knows it; but they've been kicking that can down the road for years already. But I also agree that doing it now based on weird enrollment patterns from COVID and VL, etc. is a bad idea and will only cause more frustration and chaos in a few years. They simply need to acknowledge that they should build a fourth high school and go ahead and build it for heaven's sake. NOT a special program. NOT a virtual academy. NOT another small option school. Just build a friggin' comprehensive high school and give all of our kids reprieve from crowded, large high schools.

Nevertheless, I don't know that I agree with you re having all of Hamm go to WL and having Kenmore go to YHS. Have you really thought about that and what that entails? It entails hundreds of students south of 50 and on the west side of the County bussing up to YHS while most of the NE corner goes to centrally located WL. Nice for you - I assume you're in that little Hamm area. Though I honestly don't get why WL seems to be the holy grail of Arlington and everyone seems to prefer to be zoned there.

We are never getting a 4th high school in our lifetime. They will point to current drop as justification to not build it and hold up DL and Tech as ways to manage any return of population growth. Imagine all Freshmen in a huge introductory English course via DL, lectured at like online university. That’s the fallback if they need space. Count on it.

We all like to trash APS here; and sure APS makes it easy and gives us lots of material. But come on. "in our lifetime"? Either the system tanks and people withdraw until enrollment evens out, OR, they put it off as long as possible and try shift schedules or massive DL to avoid it. All those alternatives are going to be disastrous admissions of failure, and that will become apparent after a year or two. If that happens the system will find the political will to build the high school because the alternative would be to admit that APS is second-rate and more like ACPS than FFX. The central office and County Board can't abide that; their entire self-concept is based on Arlington being special and better. Now, I think recent years show us they are more concerned with the perception of being better than the actual reality, but reality has a way of catching up and breaking through perceptions like that. When that happens they'll decide to do something about it.

The problem with your theory is the fact that APS never admits failure.

Do you really think they won’t cast evening shift schedules (“more flexible for students and families”) and DL (“education for the 21st century”) as positives?

The County Board does not prioritize schools anymore, as the population becomes more young DINKs in apartments and condos. Only 30% of Households have families, schools are no longer important to the Arlington Way. Getting to save $millions by not building a huge new high school (and shoulder the risk that student population could decline again since millennials are having fewer kids and thus have empty new built classrooms). They want the easy way out, and there is no downside for them by not building, saving money, and warehousing kids on the Ed Center and at home, rather than in adequate classrooms.

I was merely pointing out that APS (and Arlington CO, for that matter) never admit failure.
They absolutely will - already ARE and have been - pitching DL and shift schedules (under the banner of equity, particularly for "those for whom it works better" - aka Latinos and other low-income, hard-working immigrants who APS believes don't need or want to go to college). They've already started that path by implementing their own (failing) Virtual academy for this year. They haven't admitted its failure, only apologized for the "inconveniences" that have occurred so far and pleaded for everyone's patience while they resolve the remaining issues.

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I would think it would be difficult to predict this year considering how Covid has affected enrollment numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:I would think it would be difficult to predict this year considering how Covid has affected enrollment numbers.

You would think, except these decimated numbers bolster their plans to not have to build a 4th school, and they can redo boundaries to make loud parents happy, and when it all goes to sht they can say “pandemic set me up” in Marion Barry voice

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Anonymous wrote:It would make sense to try to align the TJ neighborhoods to WL so that kids can continue IB and for general alignment issues. But if they can't move all 3 neighborhoods (Alcova, AH, Penrose) due to numbers then its gonna be tough for whoever gets left behind.

But including Alcova, without Barcroft, doesn’t make sense since it goes Barcroft ES. That’s why Barcroft/Alcova are linked. Otherwise you leave the kids from Barcroft ES going to a different MS than their ES cohorts and then a different HS than their MS cohorts, too.

As posted a few times already, that's what the current situation for Alcova is. Alcova already breaks away from Barcroft after ES. Barcroft goes to Kenmore and Alcova already goes to TJ. So, keeping Alcova with Arl Hts and other WL neighborhoods would actually let Alcova students continue to HS with a larger cohort.

Right, which is why it would be wrong to do it to Barcroft, who would then be in the situation you’re describing where they move separately from ES to MS to HS. Move Barcroft and Alcova together to W-L. Alcova stays TJ for MS and Barcroft stays Kenmore. Then both neighborhoods get split up the same number of times rather than transferring the pain from only Alcova to only Barcroft. It’s not ideal, but seems a bit more fair than just fixing the issue for Alcova by making it worse for Barcroft. This way they both travel from MS to HS with neighborhood cohorts, plus they might reconnect with ES friends.

I see no logic in your argument. Spread the pain to more rather than minimizing it for those who already endure it? And what you're saying just isn't true. Barcroft does not split off from its ES cohorts - it follows everyone except Alcova to KMS (Alcova is the only part of Barcroft Elementary that leaves for TJ).

I don't think anyone has suggested moving Barcroft to WL, except you (or whoever) who suggests keeping barcroft and alcova hand-in-hand. I don't even see why Barcroft would even be in consideration for WL at all in the first place. It currently aligns with other Kenmore units from elementary and to Wakefield; it is very convenient to Wakefield; other neighborhoods are closer to WL and already go to TJ.

Moving Alcova's HS does not impact Barcroft in the least. Moving Arl Hts and Penrose to WL significantly isolates Alcova a second time going to WHS. FWIW, the only reason Alcova is still at Barcroft ES is because the principal (wisely) advocated to APS leadership for it to stay because she needs more native English speakers for her English language learners. So, Alcova's just a pawn caught in the middle of it all. Those kids should matter, too, and be given a break: either send them to WL with Arl Hts and Penrose, or send units other than Arl Hts and Penrose and Douglas Park to to WL.



I fail to see how moving Alcova to WL makes it more difficult for Barcroft - nothing changes for Barcroft in that scenario. Barcroft currently follows cohorts all the way through.

Most of Kenmore does not go to Wakefield, they go to W-L

And therefore Barcroft follows cohorts all the way through - there are units that go ES to MS to HS with the Barcroft neighborhood (which is a fairly sizeable population of students on its own, BTW). And Barcroft and Alcova are already in the same situation matriculating to HS (except the Barcroft cohort is probably larger than the Alcova cohort); but Barcroft has the advantage by far when matriculating to MS.

I just don't see why Barcroft is even in this conversation.

Sounds to me someone from Barcroft is advocating to be redistricted to WL.

I jumped in when Alcova lady said split them off to W-L. Why? There’s a much higher % of kids at Kenmore that go W-L than Wakefield. There’s a smaller number of kids from TJ zoned to W-L. My kid lost most of his friends, who were zoned TJ, after the transition to MS. And is now facing losing most of his MS friends who are zoned W-L unless he gets a transfer. So yeah, moving Barcroft to W-L makes a lot of sense to me for a personal reason, and for alignment/stability/diversity.

This is also why it makes sense to move the planning units in Boulevard Manor back to WL as well. They were zoned to Yorktown recently. That means that Ashlawn students split off and go to Swanson above Wilson and Kenmore below Wilson. Then, in high school, the kids who went to Kenmore split and Bluemont goes to WL and Boulevard Manor goes to Yorktown. There is a small cohort that goes Swanson -> Yorktown but it just makes the friend options that move through to middle and then to high school very small at Ashlawn.

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ASFS is at 80% capacity.

Does anyone know the enrollment numbers at ASFS, and it's building capacity now that Innovation is here?

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How much whiter can they make the schools?

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Anonymous wrote:What would happen if we did it like everywhere else and had sensible feeder bounders? 2 MS to each HS.

So TJ and Gunston to Wakefield
Swanson and Kenmore to WL
Hamm and Williamsburg to Yorkdown

What are the demographics under that scenario?

Now that we have 6 MSs, that seems like the approach that would make sense, though APS is not big on that.

The neighborhood that WL is located in is zoned for Hamm. I think maybe having Kenmore go to Yorktown, and having all of Hamm go to WL would make more sense.

These are bigger changes than what they should do this year though -- the projections are horrible. Seriously ridiculously off. They predicted that Innovation would be at 98% capacity (that was the justification for not moving all of ASFS there, which would have left a lot of flexibility for a future rezoning since then they could have said that innovation wasn't the new school but asfs was). Innovation has less than 400 kids! That's at 4/6th capacity. ASFS is at 80% capacity. They thought it was going to be over capacity this year. Who knows if thats just COVID and the kids are coming back, but the projections are WRONG. We should not be disrupting kids who have already had a tough time during the pandemic using numbers that are this off. They should change as little as possible, and then kick it down the line at least two years until they figure out who is coming back from private.

I agree with you that a complete overhaul is needed. APS knows it; but they've been kicking that can down the road for years already. But I also agree that doing it now based on weird enrollment patterns from COVID and VL, etc. is a bad idea and will only cause more frustration and chaos in a few years. They simply need to acknowledge that they should build a fourth high school and go ahead and build it for heaven's sake. NOT a special program. NOT a virtual academy. NOT another small option school. Just build a friggin' comprehensive high school and give all of our kids reprieve from crowded, large high schools.

Nevertheless, I don't know that I agree with you re having all of Hamm go to WL and having Kenmore go to YHS. Have you really thought about that and what that entails? It entails hundreds of students south of 50 and on the west side of the County bussing up to YHS while most of the NE corner goes to centrally located WL. Nice for you - I assume you're in that little Hamm area. Though I honestly don't get why WL seems to be the holy grail of Arlington and everyone seems to prefer to be zoned there.

We are never getting a 4th high school in our lifetime. They will point to current drop as justification to not build it and hold up DL and Tech as ways to manage any return of population growth. Imagine all Freshmen in a huge introductory English course via DL, lectured at like online university. That’s the fallback if they need space. Count on it.

We all like to trash APS here; and sure APS makes it easy and gives us lots of material. But come on. "in our lifetime"? Either the system tanks and people withdraw until enrollment evens out, OR, they put it off as long as possible and try shift schedules or massive DL to avoid it. All those alternatives are going to be disastrous admissions of failure, and that will become apparent after a year or two. If that happens the system will find the political will to build the high school because the alternative would be to admit that APS is second-rate and more like ACPS than FFX. The central office and County Board can't abide that; their entire self-concept is based on Arlington being special and better. Now, I think recent years show us they are more concerned with the perception of being better than the actual reality, but reality has a way of catching up and breaking through perceptions like that. When that happens they'll decide to do something about it.

The problem with your theory is the fact that APS never admits failure.

Do you really think they won’t cast evening shift schedules (“more flexible for students and families”) and DL (“education for the 21st century”) as positives?

The County Board does not prioritize schools anymore, as the population becomes more young DINKs in apartments and condos. Only 30% of Households have families, schools are no longer important to the Arlington Way. Getting to save $millions by not building a huge new high school (and shoulder the risk that student population could decline again since millennials are having fewer kids and thus have empty new built classrooms). They want the easy way out, and there is no downside for them by not building, saving money, and warehousing kids on the Ed Center and at home, rather than in adequate classrooms.

CDT already mentioned how great DL was because it allowed student to work during the day or help care for younger sibling. I was stunned.

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Anonymous wrote:ASFS is at 80% capacity.

Does anyone know the enrollment numbers at ASFS, and it's building capacity now that Innovation is here?

Don't know the final numbers but at the PTA meeting in August, they said that there were 450 kids at ASFS, and 375 at innovation. Building capacity of ASFS is 550-ish, Innovation is 600-ish. Both still have trailers too.

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Anonymous wrote:ASFS is at 80% capacity.

Does anyone know the enrollment numbers at ASFS, and it's building capacity now that Innovation is here?

Don't know the final numbers but at the PTA meeting in August, they said that there were 450 kids at ASFS, and 375 at innovation. Building capacity of ASFS is 550-ish, Innovation is 600-ish. Both still have trailers too.

And class sizes are in the low 20s, almost like a private school now.

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Anonymous wrote:What would happen if we did it like everywhere else and had sensible feeder bounders? 2 MS to each HS.

So TJ and Gunston to Wakefield
Swanson and Kenmore to WL
Hamm and Williamsburg to Yorkdown

What are the demographics under that scenario?

Now that we have 6 MSs, that seems like the approach that would make sense, though APS is not big on that.

The neighborhood that WL is located in is zoned for Hamm. I think maybe having Kenmore go to Yorktown, and having all of Hamm go to WL would make more sense.

These are bigger changes than what they should do this year though -- the projections are horrible. Seriously ridiculously off. They predicted that Innovation would be at 98% capacity (that was the justification for not moving all of ASFS there, which would have left a lot of flexibility for a future rezoning since then they could have said that innovation wasn't the new school but asfs was). Innovation has less than 400 kids! That's at 4/6th capacity. ASFS is at 80% capacity. They thought it was going to be over capacity this year. Who knows if thats just COVID and the kids are coming back, but the projections are WRONG. We should not be disrupting kids who have already had a tough time during the pandemic using numbers that are this off. They should change as little as possible, and then kick it down the line at least two years until they figure out who is coming back from private.

I agree with you that a complete overhaul is needed. APS knows it; but they've been kicking that can down the road for years already. But I also agree that doing it now based on weird enrollment patterns from COVID and VL, etc. is a bad idea and will only cause more frustration and chaos in a few years. They simply need to acknowledge that they should build a fourth high school and go ahead and build it for heaven's sake. NOT a special program. NOT a virtual academy. NOT another small option school. Just build a friggin' comprehensive high school and give all of our kids reprieve from crowded, large high schools.

Nevertheless, I don't know that I agree with you re having all of Hamm go to WL and having Kenmore go to YHS. Have you really thought about that and what that entails? It entails hundreds of students south of 50 and on the west side of the County bussing up to YHS while most of the NE corner goes to centrally located WL. Nice for you - I assume you're in that little Hamm area. Though I honestly don't get why WL seems to be the holy grail of Arlington and everyone seems to prefer to be zoned there.

We are never getting a 4th high school in our lifetime. They will point to current drop as justification to not build it and hold up DL and Tech as ways to manage any return of population growth. Imagine all Freshmen in a huge introductory English course via DL, lectured at like online university. That’s the fallback if they need space. Count on it.

We all like to trash APS here; and sure APS makes it easy and gives us lots of material. But come on. "in our lifetime"? Either the system tanks and people withdraw until enrollment evens out, OR, they put it off as long as possible and try shift schedules or massive DL to avoid it. All those alternatives are going to be disastrous admissions of failure, and that will become apparent after a year or two. If that happens the system will find the political will to build the high school because the alternative would be to admit that APS is second-rate and more like ACPS than FFX. The central office and County Board can't abide that; their entire self-concept is based on Arlington being special and better. Now, I think recent years show us they are more concerned with the perception of being better than the actual reality, but reality has a way of catching up and breaking through perceptions like that. When that happens they'll decide to do something about it.

The problem with your theory is the fact that APS never admits failure.

Do you really think they won’t cast evening shift schedules (“more flexible for students and families”) and DL (“education for the 21st century”) as positives?

The County Board does not prioritize schools anymore, as the population becomes more young DINKs in apartments and condos. Only 30% of Households have families, schools are no longer important to the Arlington Way. Getting to save $millions by not building a huge new high school (and shoulder the risk that student population could decline again since millennials are having fewer kids and thus have empty new built classrooms). They want the easy way out, and there is no downside for them by not building, saving money, and warehousing kids on the Ed Center and at home, rather than in adequate classrooms.

CDT already mentioned how great DL was because it allowed student to work during the day or help care for younger sibling. I was stunned.

How recently was this? Hmm, so they can cast DL as a way for families to save money on childcare for under school age children. It's a social program as well as education!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What would happen if we did it like everywhere else and had sensible feeder bounders? 2 MS to each HS.

So TJ and Gunston to Wakefield
Swanson and Kenmore to WL
Hamm and Williamsburg to Yorkdown

What are the demographics under that scenario?

Now that we have 6 MSs, that seems like the approach that would make sense, though APS is not big on that.

Wouldn’t happen because the parts of north Arlington that go to TJ would freak out.

Also I am in Columbia Forest and we are literally across the street from Wakefield and currently zoned for Kenmore. I would flip if we got re-zoned for W&L!

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Anonymous wrote:What would happen if we did it like everywhere else and had sensible feeder bounders? 2 MS to each HS.

So TJ and Gunston to Wakefield
Swanson and Kenmore to WL
Hamm and Williamsburg to Yorkdown

What are the demographics under that scenario?

Now that we have 6 MSs, that seems like the approach that would make sense, though APS is not big on that.

The neighborhood that WL is located in is zoned for Hamm. I think maybe having Kenmore go to Yorktown, and having all of Hamm go to WL would make more sense.

These are bigger changes than what they should do this year though -- the projections are horrible. Seriously ridiculously off. They predicted that Innovation would be at 98% capacity (that was the justification for not moving all of ASFS there, which would have left a lot of flexibility for a future rezoning since then they could have said that innovation wasn't the new school but asfs was). Innovation has less than 400 kids! That's at 4/6th capacity. ASFS is at 80% capacity. They thought it was going to be over capacity this year. Who knows if thats just COVID and the kids are coming back, but the projections are WRONG. We should not be disrupting kids who have already had a tough time during the pandemic using numbers that are this off. They should change as little as possible, and then kick it down the line at least two years until they figure out who is coming back from private.

I agree with you that a complete overhaul is needed. APS knows it; but they've been kicking that can down the road for years already. But I also agree that doing it now based on weird enrollment patterns from COVID and VL, etc. is a bad idea and will only cause more frustration and chaos in a few years. They simply need to acknowledge that they should build a fourth high school and go ahead and build it for heaven's sake. NOT a special program. NOT a virtual academy. NOT another small option school. Just build a friggin' comprehensive high school and give all of our kids reprieve from crowded, large high schools.

Nevertheless, I don't know that I agree with you re having all of Hamm go to WL and having Kenmore go to YHS. Have you really thought about that and what that entails? It entails hundreds of students south of 50 and on the west side of the County bussing up to YHS while most of the NE corner goes to centrally located WL. Nice for you - I assume you're in that little Hamm area. Though I honestly don't get why WL seems to be the holy grail of Arlington and everyone seems to prefer to be zoned there.

We are never getting a 4th high school in our lifetime. They will point to current drop as justification to not build it and hold up DL and Tech as ways to manage any return of population growth. Imagine all Freshmen in a huge introductory English course via DL, lectured at like online university. That’s the fallback if they need space. Count on it.

We all like to trash APS here; and sure APS makes it easy and gives us lots of material. But come on. "in our lifetime"? Either the system tanks and people withdraw until enrollment evens out, OR, they put it off as long as possible and try shift schedules or massive DL to avoid it. All those alternatives are going to be disastrous admissions of failure, and that will become apparent after a year or two. If that happens the system will find the political will to build the high school because the alternative would be to admit that APS is second-rate and more like ACPS than FFX. The central office and County Board can't abide that; their entire self-concept is based on Arlington being special and better. Now, I think recent years show us they are more concerned with the perception of being better than the actual reality, but reality has a way of catching up and breaking through perceptions like that. When that happens they'll decide to do something about it.

The problem with your theory is the fact that APS never admits failure.

Do you really think they won’t cast evening shift schedules (“more flexible for students and families”) and DL (“education for the 21st century”) as positives?

The County Board does not prioritize schools anymore, as the population becomes more young DINKs in apartments and condos. Only 30% of Households have families, schools are no longer important to the Arlington Way. Getting to save $millions by not building a huge new high school (and shoulder the risk that student population could decline again since millennials are having fewer kids and thus have empty new built classrooms). They want the easy way out, and there is no downside for them by not building, saving money, and warehousing kids on the Ed Center and at home, rather than in adequate classrooms.

CDT already mentioned how great DL was because it allowed student to work during the day or help care for younger sibling. I was stunned.

This illustrates what the School Board believes is "equity." Instead of raising expectations and standards and increasing opportunities, they believe "equity" is bringing the same lower standards and expectations to the underprivileged and giving them more opportunities to stay separate from the privileged.

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This illustrates what the School Board believes is "equity." Instead of raising expectations and standards and increasing opportunities, they believe "equity" is bringing the same lower standards and expectations to the underprivileged and giving them more opportunities to stay separate from the privileged.

their definition of equity is a sick joke. SOL scores drop further for BIPOC and APS decides to double down on the root cause of that disparity...wtf???

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This illustrates what the School Board believes is "equity." Instead of raising expectations and standards and increasing opportunities, they believe "equity" is bringing the same lower standards and expectations to the underprivileged and giving them more opportunities to stay separate from the privileged.

their definition of equity is a sick joke. SOL scores drop further for BIPOC and APS decides to double down on the root cause of that disparity...wtf???

But! But! But, it's easier for them and their schedules! And who would take care of the younger kids if the older kids were in school? Access! Not quality! That's what matters!