APS Construction - Never believe their schedules

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry PP whose kid will have to have gym in a trailer for 2 years. My child gets to go to a school with a great schools rating of 2 where the pta can offer very few enrichment activities because the fees are out if reach for most kids. How are all of those robotics classes and after school sports leagues going for you? Luckily my child will learn some lessons about privilege and relating to those who are different than us.

Another S Atlington mom

Our N Arlington school has just one enrichment class: tennis at the Y. Sounds like your school has more than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not true. McKinley is a school built for 684 kids. It will have 712 kids in it next year. Probably more the following year. There will still be trailers. Maybe not two six plexes like this year, but still some trailers. If you look at the More Seats for More Students website, this fact is confirmed in multiple presentations. In any event, I think you are missing the point of the posts above. It isn't about the trailers and nobody is saying that Tuckahoe and Glebe should stay overcrowded. People are saying that enrollment needs to be shifted to other N. Arlington schools like Jamestown and Discovery that are below capacity to achieve better enrollment balance. Every school should at least be AT capacity before we start pushing any school OVER capacity.

Right. No one is asking for special treatment. I'm not sure why that one mom is getting so worked up. Parents are asking for balance, which is what McKinley had requested all along. When numbers shifted in the past (like Ashlawn's higher enrollment), APS has adjusted boundary changes to help equalize overenrollment. McKinley was going to send 2 planning units to Ashlawn in the original plan.

One more point regarding the fields, you need to understand that the fields won't magically be available in January. You talk about November and December, but they would be used a lot Sept-November. Then, after the construction equipment leaves, McKinley will be left with an unusable dirt pit. According to the construction planners, fields can't be used for a year after construction, so we are looking at spring 2018.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry PP whose kid will have to have gym in a trailer for 2 years. My child gets to go to a school with a great schools rating of 2 where the pta can offer very few enrichment activities because the fees are out if reach for most kids. How are all of those robotics classes and after school sports leagues going for you? Luckily my child will learn some lessons about privilege and relating to those who are different than us.

Another S Atlington mom

Our N Arlington school has just one enrichment class: tennis at the Y. Sounds like your school has more than that.

Well by all means, why don't you come on down and transfer into Randolph? Better yet, why not trade places? I'm sure some underprivileged child would love to try tennis with all the little Larlos of North Arlington.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry PP whose kid will have to have gym in a trailer for 2 years. My child gets to go to a school with a great schools rating of 2 where the pta can offer very few enrichment activities because the fees are out if reach for most kids. How are all of those robotics classes and after school sports leagues going for you? Luckily my child will learn some lessons about privilege and relating to those who are different than us.

Another S Atlington mom

Our N Arlington school has just one enrichment class: tennis at the Y. Sounds like your school has more than that.

Well by all means, why don't you come on down and transfer into Randolph? Better yet, why not trade places? I'm sure some underprivileged child would love to try tennis with all the little Larlos of North Arlington.

If you want to transfer, why don't you transfer to the schools that have capacity? Oh yeah, that's right.

[Anonymous]

Her point is still valid. You are complaining about stuff that is really trivial in the scheme of things. It is maddening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her point is still valid. You are complaining about stuff that is really trivial in the scheme of things. It is maddening.

Who are you talking to? I get that you think you are better than the folks complaining about the boundary change/construction fiasco, but it still has nothing to do with schools in S. Arlington. If you think there are more worthy causes, by all means, put your effort there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry PP whose kid will have to have gym in a trailer for 2 years. My child gets to go to a school with a great schools rating of 2 where the pta can offer very few enrichment activities because the fees are out if reach for most kids. How are all of those robotics classes and after school sports leagues going for you? Luckily my child will learn some lessons about privilege and relating to those who are different than us.

Another S Atlington mom

Our N Arlington school has just one enrichment class: tennis at the Y. Sounds like your school has more than that.

Well by all means, why don't you come on down and transfer into Randolph? Better yet, why not trade places? I'm sure some underprivileged child would love to try tennis with all the little Larlos of North Arlington.

If you want to transfer, why don't you transfer to the schools that have capacity? Oh yeah, that's right.

Discovery has capacity and accepts transfers county wide.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry PP whose kid will have to have gym in a trailer for 2 years. My child gets to go to a school with a great schools rating of 2 where the pta can offer very few enrichment activities because the fees are out if reach for most kids. How are all of those robotics classes and after school sports leagues going for you? Luckily my child will learn some lessons about privilege and relating to those who are different than us.

Another S Atlington mom

Our N Arlington school has just one enrichment class: tennis at the Y. Sounds like your school has more than that.

Well by all means, why don't you come on down and transfer into Randolph? Better yet, why not trade places? I'm sure some underprivileged child would love to try tennis with all the little Larlos of North Arlington.

Well I finished elementary school decades ago and I'm not looking for enrichment classes for anyone in my family - it's not a priority for me. But thanks anyway.

Hopefully your child doesn't also learn how to be so bitter.

[Anonymous]

It's South Arlington, folks, not the south side of Chicago. The schools are fine, at a minimum. Plus, in a few years, all the white women forcing their husbands to move to Arlington will have effectively seized the South Arlington schools and transformed them in their images. Adios, diversity and hello conformist tools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's South Arlington, folks, not the south side of Chicago. The schools are fine, at a minimum. Plus, in a few years, all the white women forcing their husbands to move to Arlington will have effectively seized the South Arlington schools and transformed them in their images. Adios, diversity and hello conformist tools.

It's will be glorious!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry PP whose kid will have to have gym in a trailer for 2 years. My child gets to go to a school with a great schools rating of 2 where the pta can offer very few enrichment activities because the fees are out if reach for most kids. How are all of those robotics classes and after school sports leagues going for you? Luckily my child will learn some lessons about privilege and relating to those who are different than us.

Another S Atlington mom

Our N Arlington school has just one enrichment class: tennis at the Y. Sounds like your school has more than that.

Well by all means, why don't you come on down and transfer into Randolph? Better yet, why not trade places? I'm sure some underprivileged child would love to try tennis with all the little Larlos of North Arlington.

Well I finished elementary school decades ago and I'm not looking for enrichment classes for anyone in my family - it's not a priority for me. But thanks anyway.

Hopefully your child doesn't also learn how to be so bitter.

Ladies! Ladies! Calm down...
No need to be bitter.
Let the MONA's have their tennis club, so Larlo/Larla are comfortable playing with Buffy and Mitsy at the club.


SOUTH ARLINGTON LIBERATION ARMY will be holding ninja/Kung fu/dance combat after school enrichment. That way our kids are prepared, when are "Takin' it to the Streets".
MONA's and their kids are also invited, but they need to provide their own flattened cardboard boxes.
And don't be bringin' your lulu lemon yoga mats. You can't do a proper head spin on that crap.


VIVA SALA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's South Arlington, folks, not the south side of Chicago. The schools are fine, at a minimum. Plus, in a few years, all the white women forcing their husbands to move to Arlington will have effectively seized the South Arlington schools and transformed them in their images. Adios, diversity and hello conformist tools.

Oh FFS. What are you even talking about? I wanted to live in PG County, but couldn't get my husband on board. So we compromised with South Arlington.

And in my worldview "diversity" doesn't mean 80% and higher poverty or 80% ELL students. That's not "diversity," it's segregation.

This isn't just about children of privilege in South Arlington. It's about ALL of our kids and how their needs are not being met to the best of our ability. Peer to peer interactions should not be discounted. Not because wealthy or white children are superior and all should conform to their ways, but BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. What better way to teach our kids this lesson than by allowing them the opportunity to be educated alongside children from life circumstances that are different from their own. If you want to promulgate fear and mistrust of the "other" there is no better way than to continue down the path we're on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's South Arlington, folks, not the south side of Chicago. The schools are fine, at a minimum. Plus, in a few years, all the white women forcing their husbands to move to Arlington will have effectively seized the South Arlington schools and transformed them in their images. Adios, diversity and hello conformist tools.

Oh FFS. What are you even talking about? I wanted to live in PG County, but couldn't get my husband on board. So we compromised with South Arlington.

And in my worldview "diversity" doesn't mean 80% and higher poverty or 80% ELL students. That's not "diversity," it's segregation.

This isn't just about children of privilege in South Arlington. It's about ALL of our kids and how their needs are not being met to the best of our ability. Peer to peer interactions should not be discounted. Not because wealthy or white children are superior and all should conform to their ways, but BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. What better way to teach our kids this lesson than by allowing them the opportunity to be educated alongside children from life circumstances that are different from their own. If you want to promulgate fear and mistrust of the "other" there is no better way than to continue down the path we're on.

Word.

[Anonymous]

I am seriously considering starting a chapter if SALA.
Anyone legit interested?

[Anonymous]

* of SALA