APS Construction - Never believe their schedules

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The schools in south Arlington are good. Snowflakes will do just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SOUTH ARLINGTON LIBERATION ARMY!

Because the kids of south Arlington can literally go pound rocks.

https://www.arlnow.com/2016/04/12/parents-calling-for-improvements-to-rocky-yard-at-elementary-school/

Viva SALA!

OMG - they're actually gonna fix it!



https://www.arlnow.com/2016/04/15/aps-to-make-short-term-fixes-to-rocky-fields-at-claremont-immersion/



Now they need to do something about the forest of dead trees around Wakefield. Seriously people. If you plant a tree, you have to water it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The schools in south Arlington are good. Snowflakes will do just fine.

On this we agree, mostly. The problem is that kids of different backgrounds and different socioeconomic statuses are not going to school together, with a few exceptions, and that is bad for everyone of every race, religion, color, SES. Kids who grow up in bubbles of privilege, or conversely of poverty, don't have the same breadth of knowledge, of understanding, as those who grow up in more diverse areas. And if your kid, regardless of race/ethnicity/color/SES gets squirmy if they walk into a room where most people are not exactly the same as them, then it's a problem for you, for your children, for us all. What kind of future are we looking at?

[Anonymous]

Arlington is a small county and it would be easy to balance both the school demographics and the allocation of resources here if the powers that be in North Arlington were so inclined. They aren't, and that won't change any time soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington is a small county and it would be easy to balance both the school demographics and the allocation of resources here if the powers that be in North Arlington were so inclined. They aren't, and that won't change any time soon.

Not by bussing. This county is all about walkablility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington is a small county and it would be easy to balance both the school demographics and the allocation of resources here if the powers that be in North Arlington were so inclined. They aren't, and that won't change any time soon.

Not by bussing. This county is all about walkablility.

When it provides cover for tolerating disparities, perhaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington is a small county and it would be easy to balance both the school demographics and the allocation of resources here if the powers that be in North Arlington were so inclined. They aren't, and that won't change any time soon.

Not by bussing. This county is all about walkablility.

When it provides cover for tolerating disparities, perhaps.

Eh, it costs a lot of money to bus kids around when they would otherwise be walking. I do think there are some coverups, but I don't think this is one of them.

[Anonymous]

the only real cover up - is that they don't have room for this many kids. Not right now and certainly not in the future.
They can't even be concerned about demographics.
It's total bullshit that people are choosing to send their kids to ATS instead of Jamestown or wherever, but if we crunch the numbers- they need those Kids to choice out in order for those north Arlington elementaries to stay at or under capacity.
Each neighborhood has a certain number of kids admitted to ATS correct? Similar to HB?
What do those schools look like if all the kids stay put?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: the only real cover up - is that they don't have room for this many kids. Not right now and certainly not in the future.
They can't even be concerned about demographics.
It's total bullshit that people are choosing to send their kids to ATS instead of Jamestown or wherever, but if we crunch the numbers- they need those Kids to choice out in order for those north Arlington elementaries to stay at or under capacity.
Each neighborhood has a certain number of kids admitted to ATS correct? Similar to HB?
What do those schools look like if all the kids stay put?

No, it's straight lottery with no set-asides for geographic areas. Just luck of the draw. Allegedly, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: the only real cover up - is that they don't have room for this many kids. Not right now and certainly not in the future.
They can't even be concerned about demographics.
It's total bullshit that people are choosing to send their kids to ATS instead of Jamestown or wherever, but if we crunch the numbers- they need those Kids to choice out in order for those north Arlington elementaries to stay at or under capacity.
Each neighborhood has a certain number of kids admitted to ATS correct? Similar to HB?
What do those schools look like if all the kids stay put?

No, it's straight lottery with no set-asides for geographic areas. Just luck of the draw. Allegedly, anyway.

Huh.