Which APS elementary schools should close?

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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?

The chair drama makes more sense now. CDT is awful.

My guess is she wants to send her kid to MPSA.

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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?

The chair drama makes more sense now. CDT is awful.

My guess is she wants to send her kid to MPSA.

What is CDT going to do now? I will never vote for her for anything ever.

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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?

The chair drama makes more sense now. CDT is awful.

My guess is she wants to send her kid to MPSA.

What is CDT going to do now? I will never vote for her for anything ever.

Someone called her out on AEM for her rudeness and obnoxious giggles. So inappropriate.

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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

There’s a group of people here that detest everyone at Nottingham. And everything that Nottingham people do. Ignore them. They’ll never be satisfied.

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

Not dumb - evil

yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Who are these principals tho?

One of them might be Cardinal, though I've never heard anything bad about that principal anywhere. Not even on DCUM.

The other one is Nottingham. There were real complaints about them years ago, but I haven't heard anything recently. My children didn't go to either school.

EG is a fantastic principal. She is low-key and very focused on her staff. Doesn't do a lot of mingling with parents but she puts in a lot of effort to get to know her students, which is what I care about the most. I have one kid with an IEP and two without. She is thoughtful and thorough in IEP meetings. We once had a disagreement about service hours and she really listened to my concerns and conceded to what I was asking for. One of my child's teachers had a family emergency this year and the communication surrounding that was very compassionate. I think its unfair to slander her rep when so many of us are quite happy!

DP, but I remember EG when she was assistant principal at McKinley. She met with us in Kindergarten/first grade at our request bc our kid was having a rough time and we had her diagnosed by an outside psychologist. EG said the diagnosis paperwork wasn't like anything they had seen before and wanted to use a wait and see approach instead, would not get kid looked at by school doctor, either. Three therapists and countless private doctors later and we got an autism diagnosis, fighting with the school the whole way through for any accommodations and recognition of what was going on with our child. They fought us at every. single. turn. It didn't need to be that hard. I see that EG is now an autism specialist at Nottingham, wut? From your comment it sounds like maybe she has improved since our own experiences ten years ago. But man, our experience was Not. Good.

1 of dozens of stories of evil, incompetence or abuse.

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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?

The chair drama makes more sense now. CDT is awful.

My guess is she wants to send her kid to MPSA.

What is CDT going to do now? I will never vote for her for anything ever.

Someone called her out on AEM for her rudeness and obnoxious giggles. So inappropriate.

+1 it is painful to watch her. She degrades the offices. Glad to see others call out her antics.

[Anonymous]

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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

We have a child at NES with an IEP and nothing negative to report, fwiw.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

We have a child at NES with an IEP and nothing negative to report, fwiw.

not yet....

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Anonymous wrote:

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

We have a child at NES with an IEP and nothing negative to report, fwiw.

not yet....

You get to look forward to the former Compliance Specialist turned AP at Williamsburg. What a s**show that will be.

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Anonymous wrote:

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

We have a child at NES with an IEP and nothing negative to report, fwiw.

not yet....

You get to look forward to the former Compliance Specialist turned AP at Williamsburg. What a s**show that will be.

Why parents don't band together, rise up and push back is beyond me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

We have a child at NES with an IEP and nothing negative to report, fwiw.

not yet....

You get to look forward to the former Compliance Specialist turned AP at Williamsburg. What a s**show that will be.

Why parents don't band together, rise up and push back is beyond me.

She hasn't sat in on one IEP meeting yet as far as I know, so unfortunately there's not much to do yet except make noise.

Shaking my head that Duran thought it was a good idea to make her a LEA rep though.

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should close. No neighborhood school should be asked to close for an option school that serves the whitest and wealthiest students fleeing their south Arlington schools.

Close MPSA and give neighborhood schools what they need to succeed.

YES!
I've tried to be tolerant and accepting of MPSA over the years. But I'm done. Guess it doesn't matter, though, since they're getting what they want. The only thing left is expanding to the high school years. But after they get everything at the CC site, does anyone believe there's any chance they won't ultimately get that, too?

I’m so happy you lost and so happy for alol option schools, not just MPSA. I totally disagree with you and am happy that neighborhood schools finally have to get in line and accept that choice programs should get their due when it is their time. I’m tired of local ES schools get g built and seeing who has the better slide while a school like MPSA has THE worst ES building in the system. There are no second-class schools in this county and never should be. Get over yourselves, I have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MPSA should close. No neighborhood school should be asked to close for an option school that serves the whitest and wealthiest students fleeing their south Arlington schools.

Close MPSA and give neighborhood schools what they need to succeed.

YES!
I've tried to be tolerant and accepting of MPSA over the years. But I'm done. Guess it doesn't matter, though, since they're getting what they want. The only thing left is expanding to the high school years. But after they get everything at the CC site, does anyone believe there's any chance they won't ultimately get that, too?

I’m so happy you lost and so happy for alol option schools, not just MPSA. I totally disagree with you and am happy that neighborhood schools finally have to get in line and accept that choice programs should get their due when it is their time. I’m tired of local ES schools get g built and seeing who has the better slide while a school like MPSA has THE worst ES building in the system. There are no second-class schools in this county and never should be. Get over yourselves, I have.

Hi MPSA parent! We all know you angled to get the Patrick Henry building (which should have been torn down years ago) to get your dream one later. You won though for now. But you also have a lot of ill will from the wider community. APS is in a worse place because of your truly selfish advocacy. Sorry not sorry.

[Anonymous]

MPSA begging for a new building when they would have done anything, even accept a substandard building to get out of Drew, is rich