APS Closing Nottingham

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s fair to say it must be disappointing to Nottingham. It is disappointing. I agree. It’s when they start to go ballistic and say that PEOPLE WILL DIE and SCHOOLS WILL BE DISASTEROUSLY OVERCROWDED that the Nottingham people lost me. It’s a reasonable decision. And it doesn’t need extensive public debate. But it is disappointing for families nearby. I get that.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

How about he sad about the millions of wasted taxpayer money? They built cardinal and discovery and now are closing a perfectly good school walking distance to both.

[Anonymous]

I am okay with this. Not my school, but mine has been through stuff too. Kids will be fine.

[Anonymous]

As a parent with children in one of the S. Arlington schools that hasn't been renovated since the 1990's I welcome this decision. It completely makes sense for APS to have a swing space, much like the Wilson school used to be (which was used back when Nottingham was last renovated by the way). Will it be annoying for my kids to be across the county for a few years if it happens while they are still at the school? Yes. But most families at our high poverty, title 1 school don't have tons of after school activities that parents are rushing to, and parents or caregivers walk or drive to pick up their children now. Honestly, a long bus ride that's provided for free lengthens the free childcare provided by the school system, an option that isn't available to us now. My children are in extended day and the majority are picked up within an hour of when school is out. The bus ride may cover a lot of that time. I'm sure it will be challenging for some families who need extended day who don't have transportation to get to temporary school, so that's something that will need to be worked on/talked about. But it's definitely a minority of kids in our school who do extended day. I'd rather be solution-oriented than bury my head in the sand because of one concern.

I also think it's incredibly tone-deaf to go on and on about how overcrowded all of the nearby highly-rated schools to Nottingham will be. S. Arlington schools are already way more over-crowded with kids with many more academic, social, linguistic and economic needs. And are projected to be more so. And when the NW becomes more crowded again NES can transition back to a neighborhood school. Yes maybe it will take a few years after the need starts. Is that comparable to schools with huge renovation needs that are already overcrowded waiting 30+ years for a renovation? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

How about he sad about the millions of wasted taxpayer money? They built cardinal and discovery and now are closing a perfectly good school walking distance to both.

Meh. We’ve wasted more on worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

Not everyone is, and many of those who are have to cross major roads to walk to a different school. Including the road where three people died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a parent with children in one of the S. Arlington schools that hasn't been renovated since the 1990's I welcome this decision. It completely makes sense for APS to have a swing space, much like the Wilson school used to be (which was used back when Nottingham was last renovated by the way). Will it be annoying for my kids to be across the county for a few years if it happens while they are still at the school? Yes. But most families at our high poverty, title 1 school don't have tons of after school activities that parents are rushing to, and parents or caregivers walk or drive to pick up their children now. Honestly, a long bus ride that's provided for free lengthens the free childcare provided by the school system, an option that isn't available to us now. My children are in extended day and the majority are picked up within an hour of when school is out. The bus ride may cover a lot of that time. I'm sure it will be challenging for some families who need extended day who don't have transportation to get to temporary school, so that's something that will need to be worked on/talked about. But it's definitely a minority of kids in our school who do extended day. I'd rather be solution-oriented than bury my head in the sand because of one concern.

I also think it's incredibly tone-deaf to go on and on about how overcrowded all of the nearby highly-rated schools to Nottingham will be. S. Arlington schools are already way more over-crowded with kids with many more academic, social, linguistic and economic needs. And are projected to be more so. And when the NW becomes more crowded again NES can transition back to a neighborhood school. Yes maybe it will take a few years after the need starts. Is that comparable to schools with huge renovation needs that are already overcrowded waiting 30+ years for a renovation? No.

THANK YOU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

Not everyone is, and many of those who are have to cross major roads to walk to a different school. Including the road where three people died.

Crossing guards. Problem solved.

You seriously can’t brainstorm solutions to problems without saying “no” like a two year old?

Your personal life must be terrible. (Maybe that’s why you have time to comment on here every five minutes. Because no one wants to talk to you IRL. 😂)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

Not everyone is, and many of those who are have to cross major roads to walk to a different school. Including the road where three people died.

Pretty gross how you are exploiting deaths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

How about he sad about the millions of wasted taxpayer money? They built cardinal and discovery and now are closing a perfectly good school walking distance to both.

“Wasted”? How could APS have predicted the pandemic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a parent with children in one of the S. Arlington schools that hasn't been renovated since the 1990's I welcome this decision. It completely makes sense for APS to have a swing space, much like the Wilson school used to be (which was used back when Nottingham was last renovated by the way). Will it be annoying for my kids to be across the county for a few years if it happens while they are still at the school? Yes. But most families at our high poverty, title 1 school don't have tons of after school activities that parents are rushing to, and parents or caregivers walk or drive to pick up their children now. Honestly, a long bus ride that's provided for free lengthens the free childcare provided by the school system, an option that isn't available to us now. My children are in extended day and the majority are picked up within an hour of when school is out. The bus ride may cover a lot of that time. I'm sure it will be challenging for some families who need extended day who don't have transportation to get to temporary school, so that's something that will need to be worked on/talked about. But it's definitely a minority of kids in our school who do extended day. I'd rather be solution-oriented than bury my head in the sand because of one concern.

I also think it's incredibly tone-deaf to go on and on about how overcrowded all of the nearby highly-rated schools to Nottingham will be. S. Arlington schools are already way more over-crowded with kids with many more academic, social, linguistic and economic needs. And are projected to be more so. And when the NW becomes more crowded again NES can transition back to a neighborhood school. Yes maybe it will take a few years after the need starts. Is that comparable to schools with huge renovation needs that are already overcrowded waiting 30+ years for a renovation? No.

You have an underpopulated school in your own backyard that no one wants to send their kids to because it’s full of FARMS kids. It’s one thing to choose overcrowding, another to be needlessly forced into it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

Not everyone is, and many of those who are have to cross major roads to walk to a different school. Including the road where three people died.

Pretty gross how you are exploiting deaths.

Pretty gross how you are pretending it doesn’t matter, or some amount of deaths is acceptable so long as you get a nice space to ride out your LEED Gold renovation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How disappointing for the people living nearby who thought they were able to walk to school.

Yeah I don’t understand the glee in which people are so enthusiastic about closing a neighborhood school. This is happening because of APS mismanagement. Disappointing is the right word here.

How sad can they be when they’re still in walking distance of another school?

Not everyone is, and many of those who are have to cross major roads to walk to a different school. Including the road where three people died.

Crossing guards. Problem solved.

You seriously can’t brainstorm solutions to problems without saying “no” like a two year old?

Your personal life must be terrible. (Maybe that’s why you have time to comment on here every five minutes. Because no one wants to talk to you IRL. 😂)

And where are we finding the money to hire these crossing guards, when we can’t get enough to hire bus drivers or extended day?

Just remember that the same people in charge of solving these problems are hoping to make it a policy that new Syphax staff get 45 paid days off and have just asked for over six figures for new real estate when the majority of their employees are still working from home. I know where their priorities are and it’s not the safety of children.