APS Elementary Location Working Group 4/12

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am moving to NOVA with elementary age kids and have been trying to follow all of this but am so confused by all of this. Do my kids have to lottery in to a school no matter what? Or does your residence address provide you with an automatic (regardless of walkable) school pyramid elementary/middle/high pyramid and you don't have to deal with lotteries unless you want some special programming or something? I realize this is a basic question but I am baffled.

In other words, does my white privilege buy me a pyramid?

No. I think PP wants to confirm whether we're a distinct that is all-choice, where you have no zoned schools and everything is lottery. Like Cambridge, MA or Wake County, NC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am moving to NOVA with elementary age kids and have been trying to follow all of this but am so confused by all of this. Do my kids have to lottery in to a school no matter what? Or does your residence address provide you with an automatic (regardless of walkable) school pyramid elementary/middle/high pyramid and you don't have to deal with lotteries unless you want some special programming or something? I realize this is a basic question but I am baffled.

In other words, does my white privilege buy me a pyramid?

Ignore the village idiots.

Any student can enroll at any time in their neighborhood school. That is your default school, no lottery needed. There are some choice programs that admit children via a lottery - Spanish immersion, “traditional”, and expeditionary programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am moving to NOVA with elementary age kids and have been trying to follow all of this but am so confused by all of this. Do my kids have to lottery in to a school no matter what? Or does your residence address provide you with an automatic (regardless of walkable) school pyramid elementary/middle/high pyramid and you don't have to deal with lotteries unless you want some special programming or something? I realize this is a basic question but I am baffled.

Any house you buy will be zoned for a neighborhood elementary school that you can go to by right. There are also option schools that you can try to lottery into if you’d rather have your kids go there instead. What’s happening right now is that the school board is considering relocating some option programs to sites that currently house neighborhood schools, which would mean those schools would stop being neighborhood schools, those students would be rezoned to other neighborhood schools, and all of the school boundaries would have to shift from there to accommodate them. It’s not clear the SB is going to do this, though, because it doesn’t actually solve any problems, it just moves them around.

So no matter where you by, you will be zoned for a school where you are guaranteed admission. But between now and 2021, which school you’re zoned to could change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am moving to NOVA with elementary age kids and have been trying to follow all of this but am so confused by all of this. Do my kids have to lottery in to a school no matter what? Or does your residence address provide you with an automatic (regardless of walkable) school pyramid elementary/middle/high pyramid and you don't have to deal with lotteries unless you want some special programming or something? I realize this is a basic question but I am baffled.

In other words, does my white privilege buy me a pyramid?

Ignore the village idiots.

Any student can enroll at any time in their neighborhood school. That is your default school, no lottery needed. There are some choice programs that admit children via a lottery - Spanish immersion, “traditional”, and expeditionary programs.

Except that some boundaries are in flux in “North” Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am moving to NOVA with elementary age kids and have been trying to follow all of this but am so confused by all of this. Do my kids have to lottery in to a school no matter what? Or does your residence address provide you with an automatic (regardless of walkable) school pyramid elementary/middle/high pyramid and you don't have to deal with lotteries unless you want some special programming or something? I realize this is a basic question but I am baffled.

In other words, does my white privilege buy me a pyramid?

No. I think PP wants to confirm whether we're a distinct that is all-choice, where you have no zoned schools and everything is lottery. Like Cambridge, MA or Wake County, NC.

PP refers to “NOVA” but doesn’t say where in NOVA. Might want to bail that down first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am moving to NOVA with elementary age kids and have been trying to follow all of this but am so confused by all of this. Do my kids have to lottery in to a school no matter what? Or does your residence address provide you with an automatic (regardless of walkable) school pyramid elementary/middle/high pyramid and you don't have to deal with lotteries unless you want some special programming or something? I realize this is a basic question but I am baffled.

In other words, does my white privilege buy me a pyramid?

Ignore the village idiots.

Any student can enroll at any time in their neighborhood school. That is your default school, no lottery needed. There are some choice programs that admit children via a lottery - Spanish immersion, “traditional”, and expeditionary programs.

Except that some boundaries are in flux in “North” Arlington.

Yup. Process still works the same way though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am moving to NOVA with elementary age kids and have been trying to follow all of this but am so confused by all of this. Do my kids have to lottery in to a school no matter what? Or does your residence address provide you with an automatic (regardless of walkable) school pyramid elementary/middle/high pyramid and you don't have to deal with lotteries unless you want some special programming or something? I realize this is a basic question but I am baffled.

In other words, does my white privilege buy me a pyramid?

Ignore the village idiots.

Any student can enroll at any time in their neighborhood school. That is your default school, no lottery needed. There are some choice programs that admit children via a lottery - Spanish immersion, “traditional”, and expeditionary programs.

Except that some boundaries are in flux in “North” Arlington.[/quote

While most of the hysteria here is about "North" Arlington, the boundaries are also in flux in South Arlington.

[Anonymous]

What's the betting line on what staff will recommend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the betting line on what staff will recommend?

Staff recommendation isn’t the important decision, the important decision will be whether the school board will approve it or stick with the status quo. My vote is for status quo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the betting line on what staff will recommend?

Staff recommendation isn’t the important decision, the important decision will be whether the school board will approve it or stick with the status quo. My vote is for status quo.

Should be key to ATS to somewhere in nw, will be key and ASFS switch.

[Anonymous]

Rumor is the staff has already abandoned some/all of its short list because of errors found in their analysis and is developing a new analysis using traffic concerns raised by SB as cover for their errors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the betting line on what staff will recommend?

Staff recommendation isn’t the important decision, the important decision will be whether the school board will approve it or stick with the status quo. My vote is for status quo.

Should be key to ATS to somewhere in nw, will be key and ASFS switch.

I agree with this. Need key and ASFS as neighborhood but they will just swap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rumor is the staff has already abandoned some/all of its short list because of errors found in their analysis and is developing a new analysis using traffic concerns raised by SB as cover for their errors.

I doubt that is 100% true, maybe half or three-fourths. But, it is why every school should be on notice that it could be them.

Nottingham isn’t getting out of this so easy. McKinley and Ashlawn better start paying attention.

[Anonymous]

There is no credible reason for moving Key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rumor is the staff has already abandoned some/all of its short list because of errors found in their analysis and is developing a new analysis using traffic concerns raised by SB as cover for their errors.

I doubt that is 100% true, maybe half or three-fourths. But, it is why every school should be on notice that it could be them.

Nottingham isn’t getting out of this so easy. McKinley and Ashlawn better start paying attention.

Don’t forget there are four option schools that don’t want to move and are fighting hard (well, three are fighting hard; ATS figures it’s untouchable). And everyone’s figured out that the only Key people who want the school to move are the people who would then leave the program to stay at Key as their less-crowded neighborhood school. Key/ASFS have gotten themselves on the staff/SB radar, and not the way they want, because they’re concerned moving Key will mean the program will be underenrolled for several years and it’ll be a black eye for SB/staff.