APS Closing Nottingham

[Anonymous]

They should knock down Nottingham and put up affordable housing

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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.

Concerned families can volunteer. Again, problem solved.

so the parents have to do the school divisions' job - and if they don't or can't, then their kids aren't safe? umm, no that's not how this works

Um, that’s exactly how this works, sweetie.

Actually some of us feel differently and aren’t privileged enough to have all the time in the world to volunteer as a crossing guard every AM. But hey maybe SA SAHM can come do it!

Sorry. We're busy doing it for our own schools.

name the schools where parents volunteer as crossing guards please

I don't need to name them. Parents walk their kids to all of them, serving as extra protection or as crossing guards in absence of them; parents and school staff helped perform this function at TJ (don't know if they still do) when the construction for Fleet changed traffic patterns and access to TJMS.
And again, deflecting with focus on meaningless details. Even without precedent, no reason your school couldn't be the first. Except, of course, your lack of time because of your necessary employment.

I like the idea of a highly walkable school where parents can walk with their kids to and from school… hmmm, anyone know of any schools like that? Perhaps one that is almost entirely walkable now?

[Anonymous]

Nottie mommies acting like their school’s on the interstate.

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Anonymous wrote:Nottie mommies acting like their school’s on the interstate.

Right! It isn’t! That’s the whole problem with sending a dozen busses and hundreds of cars to/from it every day! Glad we can finally agree!

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It is worth it just to watch the Notties tying themselves in knots. Traffic studies! APS data! So much drama. They are not changing their minds. Nottingham is spending all this time and energy. For nothing. But our entertainment!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should knock down Nottingham and put up affordable housing

No, they can't do that. Too many cars added to the neighborhood.

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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.

Concerned families can volunteer. Again, problem solved.

so the parents have to do the school divisions' job - and if they don't or can't, then their kids aren't safe? umm, no that's not how this works

Um, that’s exactly how this works, sweetie.

Actually some of us feel differently and aren’t privileged enough to have all the time in the world to volunteer as a crossing guard every AM. But hey maybe SA SAHM can come do it!

Sorry. We're busy doing it for our own schools.

name the schools where parents volunteer as crossing guards please

I don't need to name them. Parents walk their kids to all of them, serving as extra protection or as crossing guards in absence of them; parents and school staff helped perform this function at TJ (don't know if they still do) when the construction for Fleet changed traffic patterns and access to TJMS.
And again, deflecting with focus on meaningless details. Even without precedent, no reason your school couldn't be the first. Except, of course, your lack of time because of your necessary employment.

I like the idea of a highly walkable school where parents can walk with their kids to and from school… hmmm, anyone know of any schools like that? Perhaps one that is almost entirely walkable now?

Yes - Randolph!

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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.

Concerned families can volunteer. Again, problem solved.

so the parents have to do the school divisions' job - and if they don't or can't, then their kids aren't safe? umm, no that's not how this works

Um, that’s exactly how this works, sweetie.

Actually some of us feel differently and aren’t privileged enough to have all the time in the world to volunteer as a crossing guard every AM. But hey maybe SA SAHM can come do it!

Sorry. We're busy doing it for our own schools.

name the schools where parents volunteer as crossing guards please

I don't need to name them. Parents walk their kids to all of them, serving as extra protection or as crossing guards in absence of them; parents and school staff helped perform this function at TJ (don't know if they still do) when the construction for Fleet changed traffic patterns and access to TJMS.
And again, deflecting with focus on meaningless details. Even without precedent, no reason your school couldn't be the first. Except, of course, your lack of time because of your necessary employment.

I like the idea of a highly walkable school where parents can walk with their kids to and from school… hmmm, anyone know of any schools like that? Perhaps one that is almost entirely walkable now?

Yes - Randolph!

Barcroft is also highly walkable!
Fleet, too; though it was even more so in its former location.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nottie mommies acting like their school’s on the interstate.

Right! It isn’t! That’s the whole problem with sending a dozen busses and hundreds of cars to/from it every day! Glad we can finally agree!

Oh sweetheart, the interstate doesn’t have stop signs.

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Anonymous wrote:To update, They have put in 4 way stops in those places where people were tragically hit, though if they were there in the 1st place, it wouldn’t have happened

that doesn't fix the issue in the middle of the block where the N'ham mom was killed getting back into her car

Maybe we can put crossing guards up and down the block? Like every 10 feet as if we are holding a parade?

or they could do a traffic study and fix the dangerous road and not overload the area with hundreds of more cars every day.

but thx for playing.

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Anonymous wrote:It is worth it just to watch the Notties tying themselves in knots. Traffic studies! APS data! So much drama. They are not changing their minds. Nottingham is spending all this time and energy. For nothing. But our entertainment!

glad it's so entertaining to you to watch people who don't want more of their neighbors to die.

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Anonymous wrote:To update, They have put in 4 way stops in those places where people were tragically hit, though if they were there in the 1st place, it wouldn’t have happened

that doesn't fix the issue in the middle of the block where the N'ham mom was killed getting back into her car

Sometimes there just isn't any 100% solution. Maybe you should lobby to just close the street entirely. Then no more pedestrians will get hit by a car.

well we don't have to make it worse by adding 100s of more cars to the street.

[Anonymous]

Can we just tell crazy NES mommy that she wins? Then sit back and smile as her beloved school gets taken over?

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Anonymous wrote:Can we just tell crazy NES mommy that she wins? Then sit back and smile as her beloved school gets taken over?

Who is crazy NES mommy? I hate to tell you there are a lot more than one person opposing this plan and we are not crazy for wanting safe streets and schools that are not overcrowded

[Anonymous]

If this goes through and it probably will-it’s going to be very interesting when APS pushes half the school population out if Discovery, Tuckahoe and Cardinal to make room for the Nottingham kids to come in. Or packs the kids at those schools into trailers.

Maybe at that point the rest of N Arl will see the folly of this plan. But it will be too late. Wake up and oppose this plan —or you can continue to make fun ann gloat and suffer the consequences yourselves.