Tuckahoe by the numbers - how can it stay a neighborhood school?

[Anonymous]

This is so self serving, hopefully the Board will see it for what it us. The Board has to make hard decisions and they really aren’t in a position to bend to N Arlington they way they have in the past. The Board is really in a pickle, Arlington ya under pressure. How can Arlington court businesses which we need with schools such A mess?

[Anonymous]

I don't think it is per-se wrong for the PTA to be organizing a lobbying effort- certainly the other PTA's have done similar things. (e.g. ASFS PTA with respect to the choice changes last year, Claremont PTA asking last year for the neighborhood preference policy to be revoked, Campbell PTA lobbying that they be allowed to stay in their location.)

That being said- I think they have gone way over the top and should have lost all credibility. Unfortunately it seems like mass hysteria and aggressive organized numbers often prevail in APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe should form a second PTA. One PTA that represents the close walkers and another PTA for those who can't wait to go to Reed, McKinley and Nottingham. By the numbers the Tuckahoe walkers are in the minority. What about a PTA recall...is that even possible?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are APS resources and the Tuckahoe website being used to lobby for options that aren't inclusive of all APS students? It looks like APS the SB and Tuckahoe administration are endorsing the non-inclusive views of the Tuckahoe PTA.

Can the PTA use APS resources to push a position? They have a few pages just about this change?

https://tuckahoe.apsva.us/aps-survey-information-please-read-take-surveys/

Crazy.

Send a letter to APS and the Tuckahoe principal about it. They are lobbying for a position that isn't even in the best interest of all the families in their boundary. It's pretty disgusting.

Just curious: are you a current Tuckahoe parent? I'm not, but I can't imagine anyone who currently goes there not feeling connected to the school and hoping to be moved to another school (unless they were just moved to Tuckahoe during the last boundary change).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it is per-se wrong for the PTA to be organizing a lobbying effort- certainly the other PTA's have done similar things. (e.g. ASFS PTA with respect to the choice changes last year, Claremont PTA asking last year for the neighborhood preference policy to be revoked, Campbell PTA lobbying that they be allowed to stay in their location.)

That being said- I think they have gone way over the top and should have lost all credibility. Unfortunately it seems like mass hysteria and aggressive organized numbers often prevail in APS.

Yeah, but it’s funny they are posting anti-APS screeds on an APS web site. So glad we got out of APS before the mismanagement reached totally epic proportions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it is per-se wrong for the PTA to be organizing a lobbying effort- certainly the other PTA's have done similar things. (e.g. ASFS PTA with respect to the choice changes last year, Claremont PTA asking last year for the neighborhood preference policy to be revoked, Campbell PTA lobbying that they be allowed to stay in their location.)

That being said- I think they have gone way over the top and should have lost all credibility. Unfortunately it seems like mass hysteria and aggressive organized numbers often prevail in APS.

There are multiple interests/opinions in the ASFS community. The PTA was very clear to not have an official stance other than “we are out of space”. Different sets of parents pushed different ideas. It was ugly, but not the PTA. And certainly not the on APS website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe should form a second PTA. One PTA that represents the close walkers and another PTA for those who can't wait to go to Reed, McKinley and Nottingham. By the numbers the Tuckahoe walkers are in the minority. What about a PTA recall...is that even possible?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are APS resources and the Tuckahoe website being used to lobby for options that aren't inclusive of all APS students? It looks like APS the SB and Tuckahoe administration are endorsing the non-inclusive views of the Tuckahoe PTA.

Can the PTA use APS resources to push a position? They have a few pages just about this change?

https://tuckahoe.apsva.us/aps-survey-information-please-read-take-surveys/

Crazy.

Send a letter to APS and the Tuckahoe principal about it. They are lobbying for a position that isn't even in the best interest of all the families in their boundary. It's pretty disgusting.

Just curious: are you a current Tuckahoe parent? I'm not, but I can't imagine anyone who currently goes there not feeling connected to the school and hoping to be moved to another school (unless they were just moved to Tuckahoe during the last boundary change).

Most of the families that are walkable to Reed are looking forward to being moved to Reed. Those are current Tuckahoe families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe should form a second PTA. One PTA that represents the close walkers and another PTA for those who can't wait to go to Reed, McKinley and Nottingham. By the numbers the Tuckahoe walkers are in the minority. What about a PTA recall...is that even possible?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are APS resources and the Tuckahoe website being used to lobby for options that aren't inclusive of all APS students? It looks like APS the SB and Tuckahoe administration are endorsing the non-inclusive views of the Tuckahoe PTA.

Can the PTA use APS resources to push a position? They have a few pages just about this change?

https://tuckahoe.apsva.us/aps-survey-information-please-read-take-surveys/

Crazy.

Send a letter to APS and the Tuckahoe principal about it. They are lobbying for a position that isn't even in the best interest of all the families in their boundary. It's pretty disgusting.

Just curious: are you a current Tuckahoe parent? I'm not, but I can't imagine anyone who currently goes there not feeling connected to the school and hoping to be moved to another school (unless they were just moved to Tuckahoe during the last boundary change).

Most of the families that are walkable to Reed are looking forward to being moved to Reed. Those are current Tuckahoe families.

Are you one of them?

[Anonymous]

Tuckahoe needs a new PTA because the families who will be rezoned to Reed/Nottingham/McKinley should want a great option school nearby. ATS is impossible to get into. If we listen to the Tuckahoe PTA, they will try to fill it to capacity with unnatural acts. Really think about who the Tuckahoe PTA is representing. Parents who live a few blocks from Tuckahoe? Or the entire Tuckahoe PTA community?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe should form a second PTA. One PTA that represents the close walkers and another PTA for those who can't wait to go to Reed, McKinley and Nottingham. By the numbers the Tuckahoe walkers are in the minority. What about a PTA recall...is that even possible?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are APS resources and the Tuckahoe website being used to lobby for options that aren't inclusive of all APS students? It looks like APS the SB and Tuckahoe administration are endorsing the non-inclusive views of the Tuckahoe PTA.

Can the PTA use APS resources to push a position? They have a few pages just about this change?

https://tuckahoe.apsva.us/aps-survey-information-please-read-take-surveys/

Crazy.

Send a letter to APS and the Tuckahoe principal about it. They are lobbying for a position that isn't even in the best interest of all the families in their boundary. It's pretty disgusting.

Just curious: are you a current Tuckahoe parent? I'm not, but I can't imagine anyone who currently goes there not feeling connected to the school and hoping to be moved to another school (unless they were just moved to Tuckahoe during the last boundary change).

Most of the families that are walkable to Reed are looking forward to being moved to Reed. Those are current Tuckahoe families.

Are you one of them?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe needs a new PTA because the families who will be rezoned to Reed/Nottingham/McKinley should want a great option school nearby. ATS is impossible to get into. If we listen to the Tuckahoe PTA, they will try to fill it to capacity with unnatural acts. Really think about who the Tuckahoe PTA is representing. Parents who live a few blocks from Tuckahoe? Or the entire Tuckahoe PTA community?

The school board has said that new option schools are not being considered. If an option school is shifted to Tuckahoe it would be an existing one, like ATS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe needs a new PTA because the families who will be rezoned to Reed/Nottingham/McKinley should want a great option school nearby. ATS is impossible to get into. If we listen to the Tuckahoe PTA, they will try to fill it to capacity with unnatural acts. Really think about who the Tuckahoe PTA is representing. Parents who live a few blocks from Tuckahoe? Or the entire Tuckahoe PTA community?

Just out of curiosity, what makes for a "great" option school? ATS? Any of the others?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe needs a new PTA because the families who will be rezoned to Reed/Nottingham/McKinley should want a great option school nearby. ATS is impossible to get into. If we listen to the Tuckahoe PTA, they will try to fill it to capacity with unnatural acts. Really think about who the Tuckahoe PTA is representing. Parents who live a few blocks from Tuckahoe? Or the entire Tuckahoe PTA community?

Just out of curiosity, what makes for a "great" option school? ATS? Any of the others?

Plenty of great ones in APS that could move to Tuckahoe. ATS just happens to be 'close' What about expanding an existing one that is filled to capacity? Or is that off the table?

[Anonymous]

what position exactly are they pushing? the only thing you've included here is a list of suggested considerations? isn't that what APS asked for in the survey? why is that advocacy against anyone's interests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what position exactly are they pushing? the only thing you've included here is a list of suggested considerations? isn't that what APS asked for in the survey? why is that advocacy against anyone's interests?

That it doesn’t matter where an option school goes, as long as it isn’t Tuckahoe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what position exactly are they pushing? the only thing you've included here is a list of suggested considerations? isn't that what APS asked for in the survey? why is that advocacy against anyone's interests?

If you read the whole discussion before jumping in to criticize people, you would have seen the letter sent by the PTA to the SB advocating for Tuckahoe to remain a neighborhood school (which necessarily would come at the expense of other interests). There is a whole page on the Tuckahoe website under the PTA link with similar advocacy.