APS Boundary tool--anyone get it to work yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an out-there idea, but why doesn't arlington invite some charters to operate? Then it would be their issue to find the space and create compelling curricula for parents to want to send their kids there? Seems that it would take some burden off the overcrowded schools, and help parents pick educations that better fit their needs.

NO!

From my perspective I am very thankful that we do not have charter schools in Arlington, and I hope we never do. Charter schools divert taxpayer funds away from the schools and children that need those funds most, and in many cases charter schools fuel disparities in socioeconomic diversity across school systems all while enriching private companies and individuals. Additionally, if charter schools were introduced without first addressing socioeconomic disparity at the neighborhood schools, the likelihood is that the neighborhood schools would become less diverse and poverty even more concentrated in a handful of already disadvantaged neighborhoods schools.

Neighborhood schools, while they may have advantages, also have many disadvantages, including the very large disadvantage of the difficulty in addressing school capacity imbalances. So if we want neighborhood schools, we also have to accept that boundaries can and do change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is an out-there idea, but why doesn't arlington invite some charters to operate? Then it would be their issue to find the space and create compelling curricula for parents to want to send their kids there? Seems that it would take some burden off the overcrowded schools, and help parents pick educations that better fit their needs.

NO!

From my perspective I am very thankful that we do not have charter schools in Arlington, and I hope we never do. Charter schools divert taxpayer funds away from the schools and children that need those funds most, and in many cases charter schools fuel disparities in socioeconomic diversity across school systems all while enriching private companies and individuals. Additionally, if charter schools were introduced without first addressing socioeconomic disparity at the neighborhood schools, the likelihood is that the neighborhood schools would become less diverse and poverty even more concentrated in a handful of already disadvantaged neighborhoods schools.

Neighborhood schools, while they may have advantages, also have many disadvantages, including the very large disadvantage of the difficulty in addressing school capacity imbalances. So if we want neighborhood schools, we also have to accept that boundaries can and do change.

absolutely 100% agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

I think there is one unit with FARM's. It near the island. I plan to start lobbying the board to create an Island out of the Western Pike.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

the eastern units around the Pike. They are contiguous to the yorktown island, and thus fair game for sending to Yorktown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

the eastern units around the Pike. They are contiguous to the yorktown island, and thus fair game for sending to Yorktown.

Those are zoned WL and can only be moved to Wakefield.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

the eastern units around the Pike. They are contiguous to the yorktown island, and thus fair game for sending to Yorktown.

Those are zoned WL and can only be moved to Wakefield.

Not according to the boundary tool. I was able to rezone those to Yorktown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

the eastern units around the Pike. They are contiguous to the yorktown island, and thus fair game for sending to Yorktown.

Those are zoned WL and can only be moved to Wakefield.

Not according to the boundary tool. I was able to rezone those to Yorktown.

On the EASTERN Pike? Penrose? No that's wakefield

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

the eastern units around the Pike. They are contiguous to the yorktown island, and thus fair game for sending to Yorktown.

Those are zoned WL and can only be moved to Wakefield.

Not according to the boundary tool. I was able to rezone those to Yorktown.

Me to. So long as you move one by the island first, it gives you a choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

the eastern units around the Pike. They are contiguous to the yorktown island, and thus fair game for sending to Yorktown.

Those are zoned WL and can only be moved to Wakefield.

Not according to the boundary tool. I was able to rezone those to Yorktown.

On the EASTERN Pike? Penrose? No that's wakefield

Yep, all of those. As long as you can make the borders contiguous, you can move all of those to Yorktown.

[Anonymous]

Ah. I see! Thanks for posting that!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard the collective is the YHS zone that is fighting against diversifying and adding brown kids to their school. They are out in force on these boards minority bashing.

They are the ones arguing to get the million dollar home white kids over to their school so they won't have more apartment kids bussed over.

Which scenarios would actually add much diversity to Yorktown? Since the units moved have to be contiguous to the existing boundary, its not exactly like you can add neighborhoods off columbia pike to yorktown. Which areas in play would add actual diversity, even in income?

the eastern units around the Pike. They are contiguous to the yorktown island, and thus fair game for sending to Yorktown.

Those are zoned WL and can only be moved to Wakefield.

Not according to the boundary tool. I was able to rezone those to Yorktown.

On the EASTERN Pike? Penrose? No that's wakefield

I just moved all the PU's along the eastern pike that are currently W-L to Yorktown and moved Arlington Forest into Wakefield and came out to all greens, except for the first year remains yellow at Wakefield. Advantages: the kids on the eastern pike are already bus riders no matter which of the three HS they would attend. Arlington Forest would be reunited (the southside is already zoned Wakefield and the northside kids already attend MS at Kenmore), plus this better balances the demographics between Wakefield, YHS, and W-L. This would not be a seismic shift for anyone, but it also won't push Wakefield above 50% FARM's while making W-L less economically diverse. And only a part of one of those Arlington Forest PU's is in the walk zone, but it's the very edge of the walk zone.

[Anonymous]

Is this like a video game or something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this like a video game or something?

Yes, and the winners get increased property values and access to better public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this like a video game or something?

It's getting to play racist tyrant for the day. It is absolutely the most ineffective, dumbest tool I've ever seen.

People acting in their self-interest of course----commenting on neighborhoods and schools that have nothing to do with themselves .