APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro

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Anonymous wrote:I hope tonight was better.

Doesn’t sound like it from the ABC7 news report. A certain Emilie Heller who agrees to be interviewed with her name attached is shown shouting at staff in multiple clips. She’s the same person who admits to being the yeller in last night’s presentation. She’s acting like a lunatic.

post a link please

https://wjla.com/news/local/youre-ignoring-us-arlington-families-speak-out-against-proposed-school-reassignments

Sadly she wasn’t directly interviewed just recorded shouting.

I would have like to her reasoned argument beyond ‘we are walkers and will now have to take a bus’

If this media frenzy helps her cause, either Key will be turned neighborhood and immersion dissolved or we get those crazy long boundaries, and thousands of kids get on a long bus ride thanks to EH.

I don't know her PU, but hopefully she ends up at Tuckahoe. Keep her away from Ashlawn.

Sorry, y'all. The article says she's in DH and that means Ashlawn. I'm also sorry that she is acting like Ashlawn is some 3rd world country that is going to scar her kids. It's all about her. She doesn't care about the 40,000 students. She only cares about 2. Also, wake up call, 200 moving together would be amazing. She willfully ignores the fact that they aren't adding 200 kids to Ashlawn while keeping current boundaries. That doesn't fit her sob story. She's really acting quite shamefully and I feel sorry for her kids. People at McK now know who is acting that way and it's going to have some consequences she didn't predict..........because, it's all about her.

[Anonymous]

Also, shame on ABC7 for giving this whiner a platform. This isn't news. It's sour grapes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also agree that APS has been very engaged and transparent. Some people confuse 'you don't listen to me' with 'you don't agree with me.'

+1,000

I think I need a shirt with that and I'll wear it to the next McK function.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All roads in Arlington lead to high schools that are mediocre-plus at best, with unimpressive college admission stats. So I’m not fully understanding the fear here.

Meh. Admissions are as unimpressive as other NoVA HSs. TJ gets the slots from this area.

[Anonymous]

Just make a decision, Arlington. Enough with the hand wringing. It’s a county of type a nerds with attitude and you can’t please them all. The option the staff is pushing is perfectly sensible. Just frickin do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also agree that APS has been very engaged and transparent. Some people confuse 'you don't listen to me' with 'you don't agree with me.'

+1,000

I think I need a shirt with that and I'll wear it to the next McK function.

Haha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just make a decision, Arlington. Enough with the hand wringing. It’s a county of type a nerds with attitude and you can’t please them all. The option the staff is pushing is perfectly sensible. Just frickin do it.

They’re going to. This has been a very compressed schedule by APS standards, and they’ve moved very directly to their recommendation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope tonight was better.

Doesn’t sound like it from the ABC7 news report. A certain Emilie Heller who agrees to be interviewed with her name attached is shown shouting at staff in multiple clips. She’s the same person who admits to being the yeller in last night’s presentation. She’s acting like a lunatic.

post a link please

https://wjla.com/news/local/youre-ignoring-us-arlington-families-speak-out-against-proposed-school-reassignments

Sadly she wasn’t directly interviewed just recorded shouting.

I would have like to her reasoned argument beyond ‘we are walkers and will now have to take a bus’

If this media frenzy helps her cause, either Key will be turned neighborhood and immersion dissolved or we get those crazy long boundaries, and thousands of kids get on a long bus ride thanks to EH.

I don't know her PU, but hopefully she ends up at Tuckahoe. Keep her away from Ashlawn.

Sorry, y'all. The article says she's in DH and that means Ashlawn. I'm also sorry that she is acting like Ashlawn is some 3rd world country that is going to scar her kids. It's all about her. She doesn't care about the 40,000 students. She only cares about 2. Also, wake up call, 200 moving together would be amazing. She willfully ignores the fact that they aren't adding 200 kids to Ashlawn while keeping current boundaries. That doesn't fit her sob story. She's really acting quite shamefully and I feel sorry for her kids. People at McK now know who is acting that way and it's going to have some consequences she didn't predict..........because, it's all about her.

She comes across as a total moron.

But you know who really appreciates this level of crazy? Moral cohesion guy.

[Anonymous]

Moral Cohesion and McKrazy will not be friends. She wants to throw his school under the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope tonight was better.

Doesn’t sound like it from the ABC7 news report. A certain Emilie Heller who agrees to be interviewed with her name attached is shown shouting at staff in multiple clips. She’s the same person who admits to being the yeller in last night’s presentation. She’s acting like a lunatic.

post a link please

https://wjla.com/news/local/youre-ignoring-us-arlington-families-speak-out-against-proposed-school-reassignments

Sadly she wasn’t directly interviewed just recorded shouting.

I would have like to her reasoned argument beyond ‘we are walkers and will now have to take a bus’

If this media frenzy helps her cause, either Key will be turned neighborhood and immersion dissolved or we get those crazy long boundaries, and thousands of kids get on a long bus ride thanks to EH.

The AEM Key boosters are going to lose their minds over the fact that this article only included the perspective of APS and the White lady who wants to walk to McKinley. Don't they know moving Key is the great tragedy of this plan!!!!

[Anonymous]

The Staff can't win here. If they produce a well thought out plan and defend it, they are accused of not listening to community feedback and having a predetermined outcome.
If they put out their initial thoughts as plans they are accused of coming up with half baked plans without doing the work to back it up.
Here- they clearly spent the summer working on the best plans they could get to. They are 'showing their work' in that in the engagement sessions they are showing some other plans they thought about and why they discarded them.

[Anonymous]

She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re bringing the public in much later in the process, once the decision is all but made. Gone are the days of six different options for the community to rank and considering the community’s preference in selecting the ultimate recommendation, instead we now get one option that they’re going to go with, one alternative designed to push people to support the intended recommendation, and an explanation for why they chose the option they’ll be recommending.

Granted, I think this is better because the community showed it can’t handle having real input in the process, but it is different.

And thank goodness for that!
In some fairness, though, I really don't think they have a lot of options to seriously consider, let alone put forward. And this week's presentation helped illustrate that when they went through the various scenarios and explained why they didn't move them forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.

What on earth are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Staff can't win here. If they produce a well thought out plan and defend it, they are accused of not listening to community feedback and having a predetermined outcome.
If they put out their initial thoughts as plans they are accused of coming up with half baked plans without doing the work to back it up.
Here- they clearly spent the summer working on the best plans they could get to. They are 'showing their work' in that in the engagement sessions they are showing some other plans they thought about and why they discarded them.

APS: 2+2=4
Parent: No. I have data that shows 2+2=56
APS: 2+2 is the same as 1+1+1+1 and that all adds up to 4
Parent: YOU AREN"T LISTENING TO ME!
APS: We have listened, but 2+2 = 4 to everyone else and we need to think of the whole system.
Parent: Oh, I bet those schools N of Lee Highway paid you to say that.
APS: 2+2=4