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

[Anonymous]

honestly all this discussion just reaffirms how happy I am to be districted to Wakefield.

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Anonymous wrote:honestly all this discussion just reaffirms how happy I am to be districted to Wakefield.

I was just about to post exactly the same thing.

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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"?

Facility

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Anonymous wrote:honestly all this discussion just reaffirms how happy I am to be districted to Wakefield.

I was just about to post exactly the same thing.

Me too. Though, we live between 50 and Columbia Pike, so who knows? For right now, I'm happy that this may not affect us.

Isn't Wakefield under capacity?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:honestly all this discussion just reaffirms how happy I am to be districted to Wakefield.

I was just about to post exactly the same thing.

Me too. Though, we live between 50 and Columbia Pike, so who knows? For right now, I'm happy that this may not affect us.

Isn't Wakefield under capacity?

It is for now, but won't be for long. I think there's a plan to add seats there too through "internal modifications." I follow all this pretty closely and it's still hard for me to keep track though, so I could be wrong.

We are south of Columbia Pike, so I suspect solidly Wakefield under any circumstance. Viva SALA!

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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.

not too late to push for Central Library swap.

[Anonymous]

I thought the plan for Kenmore was to make it 1300 choice HS in the short term without all the facilities, but then when the MS could be relocated it grows in size and becomes a comprehensive (including all facilities) high school. If that is the case, I would be fine with my kids (currently zoned for Yorktown) going there. I wouldn't want my kids (nor do I think anyone else should) to go to a neighborhood HS that doesn't have comparable facilities to the other 3 HS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:honestly all this discussion just reaffirms how happy I am to be districted to Wakefield.

I was just about to post exactly the same thing.

Me too. Though, we live between 50 and Columbia Pike, so who knows? For right now, I'm happy that this may not affect us.

Isn't Wakefield under capacity?

It is for now, but won't be for long. I think there's a plan to add seats there too through "internal modifications." I follow all this pretty closely and it's still hard for me to keep track though, so I could be wrong.

We are south of Columbia Pike, so I suspect solidly Wakefield under any circumstance. Viva SALA!

Yes, the plan is for Wakefield to have internal modifications to increase capacity by about 250 students. This same thing happened at WL the summer of 2015.

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Anonymous wrote:honestly all this discussion just reaffirms how happy I am to be districted to Wakefield.

when the school is so bad it has no where to go bad up

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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/

Holy hell. This is in Buckingham, zoned Barrrett. Just keep building more AH in the poorest neighborhoods zoned to Title 1 schools. HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING?

https://www.arlnow.com/2017/04/27/crime-report-robbery-in-buckingham/

Middle of the day violent crime. Yay--more Affordable housing in Buckingham. Can we fire the entire County AND School Boards?!?!!! They are unilaterally turning A-town into Sh*t-town.

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Anonymous wrote:honestly all this discussion just reaffirms how happy I am to be districted to Wakefield.

when the school is so bad it has no where to go bad up

No, she meant where the parents aren't assholes.

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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"?

PP from earlier. This is why I suggested making another hb. if not then do a blind lottery from all PUs near WL, which would include ours. Then have a public drawing. Of course some balancing should be done it too dump all farms kids there. Efforts should be made to replicate WL's current demographics. If you don't know who ch school you will end up intou will most likely support equitable treatment for jenmore.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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"?

PP from earlier. This is why I suggested making another hb. if not then do a blind lottery from all PUs near WL, which would include ours. Then have a public drawing. Of course some balancing should be done it too dump all farms kids there. Efforts should be made to replicate WL's current demographics. If you don't know who ch school you will end up intou will most likely support equitable treatment for jenmore.

I wouldn't mind having another HB mod,e program- clearly there's demand, and with high school enrollment growing And the chances of getting into HB are proportionally even smaller. But I thought during the last go-round, when the decoision was made to move to Rosslyn, it was also decided that HB needs to be capped at around 700 (800?) kids (6th through 12th graders) or the model won't work. I don't know how we would get 1300 high school seats out of an HB unless something was changed.

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seriously!

[Anonymous]

Make a fourth comprehensive HS at Kenmore or the VHC site. Figure out the ES/MS locations and traffic calming measures.

In the mean time, add a second 800-seat HB at the Ed Center. For any additional kids beyond that (500 if the 1300 is accurate), add some seats to Yorktown and Wakefield and adjust boundaries.