APS: Think the "no move" campaign is going to work?

[Anonymous]

At least 5 of them spoke out at a SB meeting, so they were already publicly on record as being part of the “we know better” crew.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if Erica Hewitt, Mac Mirchandani, Carly Kelly, Tamara McFadden, Emily Kahoe Chen, Kim Dam, Amanda Batchelet, Kendra Ervin, Kathleen Clark and Nathan McQueen knew that their names would be released publicly when they tried to throw Tuckahoe and Nottingham under the bus?

I am not a McKinley but I know some of those people on that list. The were cc:Ed on the email. That does not mean all of them were in support of the proposals. Some of them were at the meeting or on the email because of their volunteer roles for local civic associations.

Who is only on there because they lead a civic association?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The move is happening, Key. Sorry.

Can we look at the swap with ASFS? That seems like the best solution at this point.

Lol, no.

You don’t know what you have until it is gone!

Got played by asfs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The move is happening, Key. Sorry.

Can we look at the swap with ASFS? That seems like the best solution at this point.

Lol, no.

You don’t know what you have until it is gone!

Got played by asfs.

It was actually set in motion by the change in the option and transfer policy. Ending neighborhood preference was actually pushed by S Arlington immersion parents, sooo.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if Erica Hewitt, Mac Mirchandani, Carly Kelly, Tamara McFadden, Emily Kahoe Chen, Kim Dam, Amanda Batchelet, Kendra Ervin, Kathleen Clark and Nathan McQueen knew that their names would be released publicly when they tried to throw Tuckahoe and Nottingham under the bus?

I am not a McKinley but I know some of those people on that list. The were cc:Ed on the email. That does not mean all of them were in support of the proposals. Some of them were at the meeting or on the email because of their volunteer roles for local civic associations.

What is up with the Ashlawn boundary they are proposing? This team of data "experts" must be laughed at by APS Staff. They didn't even deserve a response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the FAC member complain on AEM?

He stated he started this year and thinks FAC should advise staff. How often do the advisory committees meet? What is the role of FAC? Are they experts in planning? His posts are odd.

Lisa Stengel talked about working with school administrators. I assume this means principals. I’d prefer we get go=uidance from people who work in schools.

FAC is a community group and recently people have been joining it specifically to stop projects they don’t want to move forward in their own neighborhoods. They should be ignored. By both APS and the County. Their agenda is to keep certain things out of certain neighborhoods. Salt dome? Not near my beautiful $2 million home. Bus and vehicle storage? Not on this piece of centrally located light industrial land the county acquired for this specific purpose. Light on the turf field near my home? I’m a big-time lawyer, put that health hazard near people who don’t matter as much and can’t afford dark skies. Another school? Oh, heck no! I bought this house so I could bird watch and wouldn’t have to hear the joyous screams of young children. A park with dedicated fields? No way! I like to let my dogs run around unleashed and poop and not clean-up and I don’t like going to the dog park, too many other dogs. NIMBY!!!!!!

Anyway, if the concern is they don’t know as much as FAC (lolz), they have the work product of a FAC group from a couple years ago that identified APS sites (and possibly county-owned sites) that had potential for schools, or more schools. There isn’t some magic land nobody knows about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone see the FAC member complain on AEM?

He stated he started this year and thinks FAC should advise staff. How often do the advisory committees meet? What is the role of FAC? Are they experts in planning? His posts are odd.

Lisa Stengel talked about working with school administrators. I assume this means principals. I’d prefer we get go=uidance from people who work in schools.

FAC is a community group and recently people have been joining it specifically to stop projects they don’t want to move forward in their own neighborhoods. They should be ignored. By both APS and the County. Their agenda is to keep certain things out of certain neighborhoods. Salt dome? Not near my beautiful $2 million home. Bus and vehicle storage? Not on this piece of centrally located light industrial land the county acquired for this specific purpose. Light on the turf field near my home? I’m a big-time lawyer, put that health hazard near people who don’t matter as much and can’t afford dark skies. Another school? Oh, heck no! I bought this house so I could bird watch and wouldn’t have to hear the joyous screams of young children. A park with dedicated fields? No way! I like to let my dogs run around unleashed and poop and not clean-up and I don’t like going to the dog park, too many other dogs. NIMBY!!!!!!

Anyway, if the concern is they don’t know as much as FAC (lolz), they have the work product of a FAC group from a couple years ago that identified APS sites (and possibly county-owned sites) that had potential for schools, or more schools. There isn’t some magic land nobody knows about.

You’re confusing FAC and JFAC. JFAC is the joint APS/county commission, FAC only advises on APS capital projects. It’s basically the community input piece of the CIP and AFSAP processes. This process doesn’t involve any capital construction projects, so they don’t really have a role. Also, their purpose is to give input to the school board, not the staff, so his upset at the staff is misplaced.

But you are correct that people increasingly join the committee in an attempt to control a pet project (either that they want built or that they specifically don’t want to see built), so their input in of decreasing usefulness to the school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if Erica Hewitt, Mac Mirchandani, Carly Kelly, Tamara McFadden, Emily Kahoe Chen, Kim Dam, Amanda Batchelet, Kendra Ervin, Kathleen Clark and Nathan McQueen knew that their names would be released publicly when they tried to throw Tuckahoe and Nottingham under the bus?

I am not a McKinley but I know some of those people on that list. The were cc:Ed on the email. That does not mean all of them were in support of the proposals. Some of them were at the meeting or on the email because of their volunteer roles for local civic associations.

What is up with the Ashlawn boundary they are proposing? This team of data "experts" must be laughed at by APS Staff. They didn't even deserve a response.

They just don't get it...so mean and nasty. Save McKinley is such a selfish group of people.

[Anonymous]

I thought the School Board said they were not going to meet privately with schools any more.

So why does the letter say: "Yesterday evening several parents from McKinley Elementary school, including myself, met with
Barbara Kanninen and Tannia Talento to discuss the 2 proposals regarding elementary school moves."

Shame on BK and TT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if Erica Hewitt, Mac Mirchandani, Carly Kelly, Tamara McFadden, Emily Kahoe Chen, Kim Dam, Amanda Batchelet, Kendra Ervin, Kathleen Clark and Nathan McQueen knew that their names would be released publicly when they tried to throw Tuckahoe and Nottingham under the bus?

I am not a McKinley but I know some of those people on that list. The were cc:Ed on the email. That does not mean all of them were in support of the proposals. Some of them were at the meeting or on the email because of their volunteer roles for local civic associations.

What is up with the Ashlawn boundary they are proposing? This team of data "experts" must be laughed at by APS Staff. They didn't even deserve a response.

It's a good illustration of why you can't keep both McK and Reed as neighborhood schools. I highly doubt McK cares though if kids have to be bussed past 2 other schools to get to Ashlawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The move is happening, Key. Sorry.

Can we look at the swap with ASFS? That seems like the best solution at this point.

Lol, no.

You don’t know what you have until it is gone!

Got played by asfs.

Nope. Key was the driving force behind "Stop the Swap".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the School Board said they were not going to meet privately with schools any more.

So why does the letter say: "Yesterday evening several parents from McKinley Elementary school, including myself, met with
Barbara Kanninen and Tannia Talento to discuss the 2 proposals regarding elementary school moves."

Shame on BK and TT.

Staff meeting with all. One PTA web page shows how being approach. ATS and Key not as open in sharing, probably more coordinated

https://mckinleypta.org/parent-education/elementary-school-planning-for-2021/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s so interesting that McKinley only advertised their no-move scenario on their website and tried to keep their Nottingham and Tuckahoe proposals secret.

Where else would they have posted it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The move is happening, Key. Sorry.

Can we look at the swap with ASFS? That seems like the best solution at this point.

Lol, no.

You don’t know what you have until it is gone!

Got played by asfs.

It was actually set in motion by the change in the option and transfer policy. Ending neighborhood preference was actually pushed by S Arlington immersion parents, sooo.....

I wasn’t paying close attention then. Why was that group in favor of ending neighborhood preference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The move is happening, Key. Sorry.

Can we look at the swap with ASFS? That seems like the best solution at this point.

Lol, no.

You don’t know what you have until it is gone!

Got played by asfs.

It was actually set in motion by the change in the option and transfer policy. Ending neighborhood preference was actually pushed by S Arlington immersion parents, sooo.....

Hmm..not really. Claremont immersion parents living in the preferred neighborhoods fought hard against the change because they didn't want to lose their guarantee -- you know the argument: we bought our house in this neighborhood so we could go to "x" school and you can't take it away because that school came with our house.
The push came from people seeking equity in admissions policies so admission isn't based on one's ability to buy in a particular neighborhood.