APS: New High School forum tonight 7-9 pm at Yorktown

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Anonymous wrote:It almost seems like what should be required from the North to succeed in getting the Kenmore 4th Comprehensive High School is an actual commitment from enough parents in high real estate areas to send their kids there.

Would this help keep the HSs balanced?

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^ Brilliant!

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Anonymous wrote:I want to hear more about the magical high school redistricting plan that is going to balance out socioeconomic levels by introducing this new school at Kenmore in the South. Tell me, what parents from the North are going to be accepting the redistricting of their snowflakes from W-L to Kenmore with no stadium, no pool, and apparently a major pedestrian safety issue? Isn't Kenmore located so far to the south that balancing out rich/poor this way will be basically impossible?

Moreover, even if you're not committed to trying to balance this stuff out, aren't you in fact making things demonstrably worse by moving a bunch of poorer kids out of W-L to Kenmore? Doesn't this just de-diversify W-L?

Meh, move a bunch of the eastern Yorktown neighborhoods there along with part of W-L.

This. Check a map. They only way to rebalance would cut a swath through the north western part of the county. You'd have to ship a bunch of PU's currently zoned Yorktown to the new Kenmore. It's not hard to see how it works. Now go tell all the people that "bought into Yorktown" that they will now be attending a very racially and economically diverse high school that doesn't have some of the basics.... and lawsuits in 3..2..1...
Can't wait to see the articles in the Post. We already look like a bunch of assholes after the most recent redistricting debacle and then the whole sign fiasco at Ytown. What have we got to lose? We've shown our asses.

Isn't Arlington supposed to be liberal? Start walking the walk by moving part of Yorktown and W-L to Kenmore HS. Otherwise, maybe you hypocrites should relocate those statutes torn down in New Orleans to Westover and Cherrydale.

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I live in 22207 and would be happy to go to Kenmore. We are considering transferring our kids there for middle school already.

Some people are saying no pool/no stadium. It seems like there is plenty of space with 32 acres. I do, however, like Barbara Kanninen's idea of practice fields at each school and only 2 countywide stadiums (because if we are playing each other, we only need 2).

Don't think everyone in North Arlington are rich, racist jerks.

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Everyone I know would give their right arm before they sent their kids to Kenmore or Wakefield. What is the point of living in North Arlington if these are your school choices?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know would give their right arm before they sent their kids to Kenmore or Wakefield. What is the point of living in North Arlington if these are your school choices?

You won't have to travel as far to visit your old friends when you move to McLean?

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Anonymous wrote:In Fairfax County, where I grew up, we had pools at rec centers and not in high schools. I'm sure this is unpopular, but I think it's stupid that the Arlington high schools were built with pools to begin with. I understand they're a public benefit, but the county put themselves in this "amenities" situation.

Bottom line is, the county is ineffectively using and allocating the land they currently have. The speed of development isn't helping either. I wish they would have stepped back and slowed down 10 years ago before it became this dire.

Ditto. And it just keeps coming: https://www.arlnow.com/2017/04/26/red-cross-building-to-be-replaced-by-affordable-housing-townhomes/

For the love of God! Did you miss the addict treatment center that is being built in Courthouse?!?!!! That's also bringing some wonderful people to the area just like the new homeless center that has increased homeless around my street by 75%.

Share the love - I'm tired of all the affordable housing being dumped on Columbia Pike!! I live on the east end, so I have it much better than those folks past Arlington Mill, but it gets dicey looking down there by the Shell, as others have mentioned.

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Yep and that is why this seems like another way for North Arlington to get theirs at the expense of most of S Arlington. If Kenmore is the plan those orange shirts will be right back out there with reinforcements from N Arlington trying to influence and/ or obstructing true balanced redistributing. Best idea so far seems HB east and HB west

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Anonymous wrote:Yep and that is why this seems like another way for North Arlington to get theirs at the expense of most of S Arlington. If Kenmore is the plan those orange shirts will be right back out there with reinforcements from N Arlington trying to influence and/ or obstructing true balanced redistributing. Best idea so far seems HB east and HB west

Maybe by the time they're deciding on program and boundary, the school board could be replaced by people with spines?

I don't see how adding a choice program, meaning most students will need to be bused, is going to have the support of a neighborhood that keeps pointing out that there is traffic on Carlyn Springs Road.

Anyway, the SB is going to do what NVD wants, so that means the Ed Center.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep and that is why this seems like another way for North Arlington to get theirs at the expense of most of S Arlington. If Kenmore is the plan those orange shirts will be right back out there with reinforcements from N Arlington trying to influence and/ or obstructing true balanced redistributing. Best idea so far seems HB east and HB west

Then both of those HBs need to enroll a lot more students than the current 700 or so and I guarantee that there will be a lot of whining and complaining about that too and since the SB basically won't touch the current HB's numbers, I don't see it happening.

Please explain to me how a 4,000 student WL benefits any student who attends it.

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I'd want to see a map of the proposed 4th high school boundary. I'd want to see which PU's and see a break down of the numbers of free and reduced lunch.
I want to know what exactly the demographics of this new school will look like. I'd want a commitment from the SB about which Yorktown units will be moved to the new school.
That fight needs to be had before south Arlington agrees to Kenmore.

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I'm in a Yorktown unit not far from WL boundaries and I would fight tooth & nail if we were redistricted to a less-than school.

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And now we see how we have 4000 kids at W-L. Selfish Yorktown turds.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in a Yorktown unit not far from WL boundaries and I would fight tooth & nail if we were redistricted to a less-than school.

Are you defining less-than by facilities or school demographics? What would keep you from "fighting tooth and nail"?

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This thread truly shows the mentality of people in Arlington and why APS is so messed up. It is the parents. The School Board is just the mouthpiece.