APS boundary process this fall?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who is going to be doing all of these boundary adjustments now that they eliminated the planning dept?

Probably hire an out of state consultant. They’ll do all the legwork, with staff and school board input.

I really hope so. APS makes too many stupid decisions and listens to the loudest rather than the neediest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlnow just reported on the new boundary policy. A 15% under or over capacity delta is required to trigger a boundary discussion that would be limited to only the affected schools. So there would be no new systemwide boundaries for an equity rational, the impetus for the current boundary process in FCPS

I am confused how this works in reality.

If Williamsburg is 15 percent under rolled, they have to pull from nearby schools. How do you limit the boundary adjustments to only the affected school? There has to be somewhere to take from or give to.

Same thing they did to W-L in 2018. The online boundary tool will only allow certain adjacent and/or contiguous planning units to move. That way a very limited number of adjacent schools are affected.

So they put a policy in place to go back and tell some of the Hamm people they have to move to Williamsburg.

So exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlnow just reported on the new boundary policy. A 15% under or over capacity delta is required to trigger a boundary discussion that would be limited to only the affected schools. So there would be no new systemwide boundaries for an equity rational, the impetus for the current boundary process in FCPS

I am confused how this works in reality.

If Williamsburg is 15 percent under rolled, they have to pull from nearby schools. How do you limit the boundary adjustments to only the affected school? There has to be somewhere to take from or give to.

Same thing they did to W-L in 2018. The online boundary tool will only allow certain adjacent and/or contiguous planning units to move. That way a very limited number of adjacent schools are affected.

So they put a policy in place to go back and tell some of the Hamm people they have to move to Williamsburg.

So exhausting.

If it’s a limited boundary move, the consultants could limit it to any of the adjacent middle schools to Hamm. So no need to jump to conclusions

[Anonymous]

Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

Hahaha. That’s not happening. We see major public school flight and that’s trending one direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Actually the easiest thing would be to provide transportation to Williamsburg for targeted transfers. We’d be there in a heartbeat. I work school hours can’t make the pickup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

How about move Hb’s middle school program to Williamsburg and expand the highschool portion at the heights building? That’s an easy button if I ever heard one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

How about move Hb’s middle school program to Williamsburg and expand the highschool portion at the heights building? That’s an easy button if I ever heard one!

HB is the opposite of WMS, good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

How about move Hb’s middle school program to Williamsburg and expand the highschool portion at the heights building? That’s an easy button if I ever heard one!

HB is the opposite of WMS, good luck with that.

School within a schools can be different programs. This is a good use of excess middle school seats to relieve high school overcrowding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

It’s not MY plan. It’s the school boards. And you don’t understand. The people with means are leaving the schools (going private) not leaving the tax base. THAT is the plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

How about move Hb’s middle school program to Williamsburg and expand the highschool portion at the heights building? That’s an easy button if I ever heard one!

Add more sped hs kids to HB? Should help maintain the downward trend in test scores. Yay!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

How about move Hb’s middle school program to Williamsburg and expand the highschool portion at the heights building? That’s an easy button if I ever heard one!

HB is the opposite of WMS, good luck with that.

School within a schools can be different programs. This is a good use of excess middle school seats to relieve high school overcrowding.

You don’t understand HB at all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry the handful of tuckahoe planning units and the one Nottingham one aren’t going to be enough. Time to get some more people currently in zone to Williamsburg to start using public again.

What? You want more students to return to public just so Williamsburg isn’t underenrolled?

That is the last thing APS wants, all their long term plans are based on declining enrollment, and pushing those with means to private is one of their best tools. They stay and pay taxes but no student costs!

Seriously, the easiest thing is to just move immersion or setup some kind of option sub-school at WMS that will attract students to the location. Maybe a tech hub like mini AT?

Good plan. All the people with the means to do so should leave the school system. That won’t have any effect on the quality of the schools and the support for them.

How about move Hb’s middle school program to Williamsburg and expand the highschool portion at the heights building? That’s an easy button if I ever heard one!

HB is the opposite of WMS, good luck with that.

School within a schools can be different programs. This is a good use of excess middle school seats to relieve high school overcrowding.

You don’t understand HB at all

DP. Doesn’t HB have open campus? Coming and going from WMS to/from the Lee Harrison Center throughout the day would cause chaos. But they could implement student ID checks at the entrances to check for who is an HB vs WMS student.

W-L is introducing ID badge checks. Probably a good idea since students walk to / from the annex throughout the day, and seniors have open campus.