Which APS elementary schools should close?

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Anonymous wrote:The option schools.

You mean close the high performing schools that are full and super popular with waiting lists, while there are under enrolled elem schools that no one wants to go to (ahem Drew). lol, no.

The programs are super popular because middle class families don't want to send their children to the low-performing schools. Not everyone can access those programs and the busing is a drain on our resources.

so again you really want to close the highest performing and most popular schools? we should be opening more of them, not less.

close the low performing neighborhood schools that no one wants to go to.

AMAC has joined the conversation. The Mary Coup didn't work so now they'll go after the Title I schools.

PP here. I don't even know what AMAC is (I assume montessori?), so I can assure you I'm not part of it.

So then you’re like a clueless Northie who wants to keep your extra schools open? At the expense of a school like Drew?!??

Explain why Drew has to stay open when it can't fill itself. Other than politics and optics.

Because the SB is afraid to expand the Drew boundary.

It's not on Drew to "fill itself." The school board sets boundaries and the current boundares maintain segregation and inequities across the county.

Oh puhlease

The neighborhood surrounding Drew has been historically underinvested in for hundreds of years. The whole county, not just the school board, needs to address this.

The neighborhood surrounding Drew has barely any kids.

587 kids in the Drew zone attend an APS elementary school. (358 attend Drew. 229 attend another APS school.) You call that "hardly any kids?" I'll help you out with a list of schools that have fewer kids attending them: Tuckahoe (429), Randolph (391), Nottingham (382), Long Branch (387), Jamestown (436), Innovation (451), Hoffman Boston (483), Glebe (535), Discovery (495), Carlin Springs (486), Barrett (507), Barcroft (432), Ashlawn (530), [b]Arlington Science Focus (558), and Fleet (536). Bolded schools are in north Arlington but have fewer students than live in the Drew zone.

So 39% of the kids in Drew zone at an APS school have found a way to not go to Drew. I wonder how many more living in the zone are going to a private school instead of Drew. The point is, APS can redraw the boundaries but if families don't want to go there they will find another school.

I think there is one more year left on ES that got in when those in Drew's neighborhood had guaranteed admission to Claremont and Hoffman Boston. I think that ended in 2020 so current 3rd graders no longer had guaranteed admission. I would like to see if if shifted.

I thought the 2018/2019 kindergarteners were the last group that had guaranteed admission. Those kids are in MS now.

Yes you are correct. No more neighborhood preference for Claremont for any neighborhood after this year of graduating 5th graders.

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MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

So MPSA will be protected while APS decides boundaries for everyone else and decide which school to close. Thanks APS school board for showing us your true priorities!

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Close Nottingham, horrible administration from 9 years of experience. Dumb as rocks

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

So MPSA will be protected while APS decides boundaries for everyone else and decide which school to close. Thanks APS school board for showing us your true priorities!

+1. BZS said they’re doing a policy to manage school closures. But she voted to give MPSA exactly what they want.

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Anonymous wrote:Close Nottingham, horrible administration from 9 years of experience. Dumb as rocks

Not dumb - evil

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

So MPSA will be protected while APS decides boundaries for everyone else and decide which school to close. Thanks APS school board for showing us your true priorities!

+1. BZS said they’re doing a policy to manage school closures. But she voted to give MPSA exactly what they want.

Did anyone vote against?

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Anonymous wrote:Close Nottingham, horrible administration from 9 years of experience. Dumb as rocks

Not dumb - evil

Yes, a better description!

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

So MPSA will be protected while APS decides boundaries for everyone else and decide which school to close. Thanks APS school board for showing us your true priorities!

+1. BZS said they’re doing a policy to manage school closures. But she voted to give MPSA exactly what they want.

Mary and Miranda voted against the CIP

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Anonymous wrote:Close Nottingham, horrible administration from 9 years of experience. Dumb as rocks

Not dumb - evil

Yes, a better description!

but if Nottingham closes they would just move EG to another school to terrorize more sped kids

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

So MPSA will be protected while APS decides boundaries for everyone else and decide which school to close. Thanks APS school board for showing us your true priorities!

+1. BZS said they’re doing a policy to manage school closures. But she voted to give MPSA exactly what they want.

Mary and Miranda voted against the CIP

so MK's opposition to the CIP is part of why CDT and her minions tried to block MK from being chair right? Why is CDT so entrenched in favor of this CIP?

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

I hope this is the last of the small cohort specialty school projects that do not give us bang for the buck. If not, after the Montessori K-12 program, IB parents will demand their own small, specialized K-12 IB school; the Spanish Immersion parents will want their own small K-12 immersion program. ATS parents will demand the same.

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should move to Nottingham. Considering it was going to be a swing space anyhow, and if ANYWHERE will have continued open seats, it's N Arlington.

I think it a done deal. But Notties have a few years to fight a good fight. From the CIP email :

"Renovating the legacy Career Center building for the relocation of the Montessori Public School of Arlington (MPSA), for opening in SY 2028-29"

I hope this is the last of the small cohort specialty school projects that do not give us bang for the buck. If not, after the Montessori K-12 program, IB parents will demand their own small, specialized K-12 IB school; the Spanish Immersion parents will want their own small K-12 immersion program. ATS parents will demand the same.

But those are the parents paying attention. Parents whose kids are not in those cohort and ARE paying attention leave for private.

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Anonymous wrote:Close Nottingham, horrible administration from 9 years of experience. Dumb as rocks

Not dumb - evil

Yes, a better description!

but if Nottingham closes they would just move EG to another school to terrorize more sped kids

Can you provide more context here? - Current NES parent without current visibility into this area, but anticipate we may in the future