Who said there isn't a North-South divide?

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Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

You really must have low expectations.

It’s a commonly used phrase in n Arlington.

Especially when speaking to those in South Arlington. Sounds much better than “shut up and accept what you’re given.”

You got it. It’s easy for the N Arlington mommy to say to the S Arlington mommy.

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Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

Also, are there any other factors we're allowed to consider? What if her spouse works in Tysons? What is she has family or a best friend in McLean? Is she allowed to choose where to live based on anything other than the optics of her job?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

Also, are there any other factors we're allowed to consider? What if her spouse works in Tysons? What is she has family or a best friend in McLean? Is she allowed to choose where to live based on anything other than the optics of her job?

Nature of her job...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

Maybe one that wasn't the newest, most extravagant, and among the least integrated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

Also, are there any other factors we're allowed to consider? What if her spouse works in Tysons? What is she has family or a best friend in McLean? Is she allowed to choose where to live based on anything other than the optics of her job?

Nature of her job...

Only when parents act like brats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

Maybe one that wasn't the newest, most extravagant, and among the least integrated.

So Nottingham or Jamestown wouldn’t have earned this kind of criticism?

[Anonymous]

So just reading over an email on our neighborhood listserv, and Penrose, hold onto your hats! An office building is going to be repurposed to Affordable Housing! You can thank the Planning Commission. The owner of the building wanted to demolish the building and build town homes. But we can't have that land go to "waste" along Columbia Pike, so Affordable Housing it will be. Just 7 stories of it, probably all family-sized units. Will it be zoned Fleet or Hoffman-Boston? Apparently, we can't have any schools in South Arlington that aren't Title 1.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

Maybe one that wasn't the newest, most extravagant, and among the least integrated.

So Nottingham or Jamestown wouldn’t have earned this kind of criticism?

Probably would've, those are also cloistered enclaves. The point is, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. And yes, the optics are terrible. I'm a bit baffled why she moved to the same county she administers. It's a conflict of interest waiting to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So just reading over an email on our neighborhood listserv, and Penrose, hold onto your hats! An office building is going to be repurposed to Affordable Housing! You can thank the Planning Commission. The owner of the building wanted to demolish the building and build town homes. But we can't have that land go to "waste" along Columbia Pike, so Affordable Housing it will be. Just 7 stories of it, probably all family-sized units. Will it be zoned Fleet or Hoffman-Boston? Apparently, we can't have any schools in South Arlington that aren't Title 1.

Wait what? Why can’t the owner decide what happens to the land? What building? Can we get a little more info?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So just reading over an email on our neighborhood listserv, and Penrose, hold onto your hats! An office building is going to be repurposed to Affordable Housing! You can thank the Planning Commission. The owner of the building wanted to demolish the building and build town homes. But we can't have that land go to "waste" along Columbia Pike, so Affordable Housing it will be. Just 7 stories of it, probably all family-sized units. Will it be zoned Fleet or Hoffman-Boston? Apparently, we can't have any schools in South Arlington that aren't Title 1.

Wait what? Why can’t the owner decide what happens to the land? What building? Can we get a little more info?

Because all of the land in the county falls under the Comprehensive Master Plan that specifies how every parcel can be used and what the building restrictions are on it. You think anyone can just build anything wherever they want?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.

All Arlington schools are great!

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.

Can someone please translate this??

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone.

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?

Maybe one that wasn't the newest, most extravagant, and among the least integrated.

So Nottingham or Jamestown wouldn’t have earned this kind of criticism?

Probably would've, those are also cloistered enclaves. The point is, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. And yes, the optics are terrible. I'm a bit baffled why she moved to the same county she administers. It's a conflict of interest waiting to happen.

Discovery is a great choice. Always under-enrolled, no trailers allowed and never will become an option school. If we had known these things we would live there as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So just reading over an email on our neighborhood listserv, and Penrose, hold onto your hats! An office building is going to be repurposed to Affordable Housing! You can thank the Planning Commission. The owner of the building wanted to demolish the building and build town homes. But we can't have that land go to "waste" along Columbia Pike, so Affordable Housing it will be. Just 7 stories of it, probably all family-sized units. Will it be zoned Fleet or Hoffman-Boston? Apparently, we can't have any schools in South Arlington that aren't Title 1.

Wait what? Why can’t the owner decide what happens to the land? What building? Can we get a little more info?

Because all of the land in the county falls under the Comprehensive Master Plan that specifies how every parcel can be used and what the building restrictions are on it. You think anyone can just build anything wherever they want?

Well no shit, but I’m not seeing the difference in Zoning residential multi family. Why not allow th’s, but green light apts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So just reading over an email on our neighborhood listserv, and Penrose, hold onto your hats! An office building is going to be repurposed to Affordable Housing! You can thank the Planning Commission. The owner of the building wanted to demolish the building and build town homes. But we can't have that land go to "waste" along Columbia Pike, so Affordable Housing it will be. Just 7 stories of it, probably all family-sized units. Will it be zoned Fleet or Hoffman-Boston? Apparently, we can't have any schools in South Arlington that aren't Title 1.

Wait what? Why can’t the owner decide what happens to the land? What building? Can we get a little more info?

Because all of the land in the county falls under the Comprehensive Master Plan that specifies how every parcel can be used and what the building restrictions are on it. You think anyone can just build anything wherever they want?

Well no shit, but I’m not seeing the difference in Zoning residential multi family. Why not allow th’s, but green light apts?

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