Thoreau AAP

[Anonymous]

Agree! As a LJ parent I'm very happy that a move was done which will decrease the crowding! Instead of focusing one the world is ending, maybe direct your anger in a more productive way...a way that supports current LJ kids and families and makes it a better school instead of this obsession on what should have been (in your opinion).

[Anonymous]

Focus on the future. What will each school look like in the fall?

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.

You seem to want to squelch discussion. Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point. Stop with the yelling and all caps posts. It’s rather belligerent.

The decision will not be reversed. But, you can keep grasping at straws.

[Anonymous]

These are all different posters by the way. Does it not tell you something that many, many people see this as your issue and that you’re sadly obsessed?

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.

You seem to want to squelch discussion. Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point. Stop with the yelling and all caps posts. It’s rather belligerent.

"You seem to want to squelch discussion" - Not likely as long as you are around BUT we are done with the discussion. It's like Trump talking about the election a year after it was done. Move on..

"Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point" - Who gives a F about a revisit. My kid and most of us here are done in two years. Revisit all you want for all I care.

"It’s rather belligerent" - I'm not the pp you responded to so I won't respond to your "belligerent comment... Oh wait, wait! Here's a good one.. Go look in the mirror. You will understand what belligerent is.

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Anonymous wrote:Either way, parents and county residents should carefully monitor the impact of this decision to see just how much it accelerates the concentration of poverty at certain schools and leads to overcrowding at another. My property value deserves nothing less.

Fixed that for you.

You are both arrogant and incorrect in assuming that everyone looks at such decisions through the same narrow lens of financial self-interest that you do.

I don’t care about any impact other than the kids at the school my kid will be attending. (After all, decisions at other elementary schools don’t affect us so we don’t worry about them. My kid picked lj so that’s what I care about. If lj has issues years from now I can’t worry about that either. I take each issue as it comes.

NP.... no kids at either school but following the discussion on and off.....Funny how this PP admits to only caring about LJ because her kid is there. Why would she expect others to care about schools that their kids do not attend..... Keeps going on and on to TM parents of what will become of LJ because of the (already final) Decision....like they should care if their kids are at TM now. How hypocritical. Interesting thread.

[Anonymous]

We watched what FCPS did to Annandale and it's sad they are going to undermine Jackson the same way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We watched what FCPS did to Annandale and it's sad they are going to undermine Jackson the same way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksSPZTZES0

[Anonymous]

A letter sent to the Arlington school board - very relevant to the recent actions of the Fairfax school board as well.

https://www.crossedsabres.org/opinion-2/2016/12/07/open-letter-to-the-school-board/

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.

You seem to want to squelch discussion. Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point. Stop with the yelling and all caps posts. It’s rather belligerent.

"You seem to want to squelch discussion" - Not likely as long as you are around BUT we are done with the discussion. It's like Trump talking about the election a year after it was done. Move on..

"Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point" - Who gives a F about a revisit. My kid and most of us here are done in two years. Revisit all you want for all I care.

"It’s rather belligerent" - I'm not the pp you responded to so I won't respond to your "belligerent comment... Oh wait, wait! Here's a good one.. Go look in the mirror. You will understand what belligerent is.

In case you haven't noticed, people are still talking about removing Trump and how unfair that election was.

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.

You seem to want to squelch discussion. Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point. Stop with the yelling and all caps posts. It’s rather belligerent.

"You seem to want to squelch discussion" - Not likely as long as you are around BUT we are done with the discussion. It's like Trump talking about the election a year after it was done. Move on..

"Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point" - Who gives a F about a revisit. My kid and most of us here are done in two years. Revisit all you want for all I care.

"It’s rather belligerent" - I'm not the pp you responded to so I won't respond to your "belligerent comment... Oh wait, wait! Here's a good one.. Go look in the mirror. You will understand what belligerent is.

In case you haven't noticed, people are still talking about removing Trump and how unfair that election was.

Your issue that you can't let die isn't quite the same as the issue as to who was elected president of the U.S. I know you feel it is the same; it is not.

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Anonymous wrote:Btw, to the person always arguing that lj kids should have been rezoned to Poe to keep Oakton pyramid kids in lj....Poe is one of three MSs in FCPS that is 6th grade through 8th grade. Moving kids there would create a lot of problems involving elementary school reconfiguration.

Didn’t stop FCPS from redistricting kids from Poe to Frost and Lake Braddock, neither of which has 6th grades. These hurdles only get raised when they might involve moving kids to, not from, lower SES schools. Stop manufacturing fake arguments and just acknowledge you’re happy to concentrate poverty in certain schools as long as your kids go to a different school or are in AAP.

Not the pp but I have (several times) acknowledged that! Acknowledge again! Will you PLEASE stop posting. Nobody cares..

This. Clearly the miserable lady has a kid in lj in the base program and or did have that and or just cares about her property values. Move it to the real estate section.

If that were the case, why would it bother you so much that someone was sticking up for the base parents at LJ.

Clearly this was done to appease parents who wanted to move to Thoreau and AAP parents, even more of whom will now have a choice between two schools. The views of other base parents at LJ, who won’t have a choice and whose kids will now be at a school that concentrates poverty in GenEd classes were not solicited or adequately taken into account. That has more to do with education than real estate.

We all agree and acknowledge. Anything else we need to do to stop you?

No one is bothered by someone sticking up for the base parents. It is the shoving it down our throats and going at it ad nauseum that is off putting. WE HEARD YOU. Sticking up is one thing - the inability to do anything but harp on and on and on is another. MOVE ON.

You seem to want to squelch discussion. Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point. Stop with the yelling and all caps posts. It’s rather belligerent.

"You seem to want to squelch discussion" - Not likely as long as you are around BUT we are done with the discussion. It's like Trump talking about the election a year after it was done. Move on..

"Are you worried that perhaps this bad decision may be revisited at some point" - Who gives a F about a revisit. My kid and most of us here are done in two years. Revisit all you want for all I care.

"It’s rather belligerent" - I'm not the pp you responded to so I won't respond to your "belligerent comment... Oh wait, wait! Here's a good one.. Go look in the mirror. You will understand what belligerent is.

In case you haven't noticed, people are still talking about removing Trump and how unfair that election was.

Exactly my point! What a pointless waste of time! Removal? Ain't gonna happen!

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why "get over it" is the correct response to a bad decision that shouldn't be ignored with both School Board elections and the actual implementation of the boundary shift happening next year.

Some folks really want this injustice forgotten. Soon they'll be claiming those neighborhoods went to Thoreau "forever." Or maybe they can't deal with the fact that the same SB members who claim to be social justice warriors were more than happy to consign GenEd kids at Jackson to a sub-par environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why "get over it" is the correct response to a bad decision that shouldn't be ignored with both School Board elections and the actual implementation of the boundary shift happening next year.

Some folks really want this injustice forgotten. Soon they'll be claiming those neighborhoods went to Thoreau "forever." Or maybe they can't deal with the fact that the same SB members who claim to be social justice warriors were more than happy to consign GenEd kids at Jackson to a sub-par environment.

You don't have to "get over it" altogether if you think it was wrong. Go ahead and do something about it in the real world. (suggestions have been made to make LJ the best it can be, run for school board, etc.). Those who oppose it have stated their case over and over. The decision has, in fact, been made. It IS being implemented. The point of "getting over it" is that opposers should recognize that THIS decision is done. It's not going to be reversed in the near term. So, doesn't it make sense to move on from arguing about what should have been decided on Feb. 22, and move on to what should be done next month, next fall, next year, next election?

You still have to deal with the facts -- even if you want change. The fact is that every school board member in attendance voted for it. So, you will have to get organized if you want to unseat all of them. And then come up with a plan to help your portion of FCPS.

By the way -- speaking of facts -- about 50-60 rising 8th graders are transferring from LJ to TMS for next fall (not AAP). There must be something going on (under the current situation) that 50-60 kids want to leave LJ in the middle of MS. Improving upon THAT might be a good start going forward.

[Anonymous]

To the annoying PP who keep posting against this. You don't have to "get over it". Just stop posting about it.

It's done. NOTHING you do can change it! Ever. You think in future years, anyone can reverse this decision without a big fight? You are fooling yourself.

Give it a shot however.. And, good luck.