What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherrydalers suck!

Please. We live in Cherryvale and perfectly happy at Taylor. All of my kid's closest friends happen to live close to key and asfs so he'll lose his closest friends. We did not lobby for any of this. Even the families I know who live close to asfs told me they preferred to stay at Taylor so not all of us want this.

Let me be more specific then: the ones behind this fiasco suck.

[Anonymous]

So is there going to be a questionnaire, or was the staff full of shit about that too? I'm not sure what the point of it would be anyway, since they clearly don't care what the community thinks either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is there going to be a questionnaire, or was the staff full of shit about that too? I'm not sure what the point of it would be anyway, since they clearly don't care what the community thinks either way.

Honestly, there is little the community can say b/c there is not much capacity in the system and hard choices have to be made. People have to be moved. No one wants to move. There questionnaire is done.

[Anonymous]

I’m trying to play catch up to this thread. Please excuse my lack of background knowledge on this topic.

Regarding the screenshot above:
- What does Nottingham IB mean? A new not yet existant
option school is opened there with an IB program? Can they set up a brand new IB program in just a few years?

- ASFS and Carlin Springs immersion. So that means that
Claremont’s immersion program moves to Carlin Springs and
Key immersion moves to ASFS?
Where do those currently attending Carlin Springs as a neighborhood school go? Does this effect Campbell’s location?

Again, I haven’t been following this thread regularly and tried to skim through the 19+ pages but there’s a lot here.
Thanks for your patience as I try to play catch up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cherrydalers suck!

They just want a neighborhood school like most everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherrydalers suck!

They just want a neighborhood school like most everyone else.

Right. Isn't actually that option schools suck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to play catch up to this thread. Please excuse my lack of background knowledge on this topic.

Regarding the screenshot above:
- What does Nottingham IB mean? A new not yet existant
option school is opened there with an IB program? Can they set up a brand new IB program in just a few years?

- ASFS and Carlin Springs immersion. So that means that
Claremont’s immersion program moves to Carlin Springs and
Key immersion moves to ASFS?
Where do those currently attending Carlin Springs as a neighborhood school go? Does this effect Campbell’s location?

Again, I haven’t been following this thread regularly and tried to skim through the 19+ pages but there’s a lot here.
Thanks for your patience as I try to play catch up.

Nottingham IB means (1) they are considering moving ATS to Nottingham, and (2) whether ATS moves or not, they are considering eliminating the current ATS curriculum and making it an IB program instead. It will not be a new option program, it will replace ATS (but presumably no new lottery, they'll just phase in the IB curriculum with the students already enrolled at that point).

The Key immersion program is not going to ASFS. That was the staff's original thinking, but it's not happening anymore. Claremont immersion will go to Carlin Springs, and Key will go either to Barcroft or to the vacated ATS site if ATS moves to Nottingham. If immersion moves to Barcroft, the current Carlin Springs families either get pushed to Randolph/Claremont, or maybe APS will get crazy and send them over to Ashlawn (because otherwise those boundaries will still be a disaster after this move). If immersion moves to ATS instead, then current Carlin Springs families probably get split between Barcroft and Claremont.

Campbell will stay where it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherrydalers suck!

They just want a neighborhood school like most everyone else.

Why aren't people more upset about Lyon Villagers? Isn't that usually the area that everyone hates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherrydalers suck!

They just want a neighborhood school like most everyone else.

Why aren't people more upset about Lyon Villagers? Isn't that usually the area that everyone hates?

What is there to get upset with Lyon Village about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to play catch up to this thread. Please excuse my lack of background knowledge on this topic.

Regarding the screenshot above:
- What does Nottingham IB mean? A new not yet existant
option school is opened there with an IB program? Can they set up a brand new IB program in just a few years?

- ASFS and Carlin Springs immersion. So that means that
Claremont’s immersion program moves to Carlin Springs and
Key immersion moves to ASFS?
Where do those currently attending Carlin Springs as a neighborhood school go? Does this effect Campbell’s location?

Again, I haven’t been following this thread regularly and tried to skim through the 19+ pages but there’s a lot here.
Thanks for your patience as I try to play catch up.

Thank you for catching me up.
Wow! That’s a lot to digest.


Nottingham IB means (1) they are considering moving ATS to Nottingham, and (2) whether ATS moves or not, they are considering eliminating the current ATS curriculum and making it an IB program instead. It will not be a new option program, it will replace ATS (but presumably no new lottery, they'll just phase in the IB curriculum with the students already enrolled at that point).

The Key immersion program is not going to ASFS. That was the staff's original thinking, but it's not happening anymore. Claremont immersion will go to Carlin Springs, and Key will go either to Barcroft or to the vacated ATS site if ATS moves to Nottingham. If immersion moves to Barcroft, the current Carlin Springs families either get pushed to Randolph/Claremont, or maybe APS will get crazy and send them over to Ashlawn (because otherwise those boundaries will still be a disaster after this move). If immersion moves to ATS instead, then current Carlin Springs families probably get split between Barcroft and Claremont.

Campbell will stay where it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to play catch up to this thread. Please excuse my lack of background knowledge on this topic.

Regarding the screenshot above:
- What does Nottingham IB mean? A new not yet existant
option school is opened there with an IB program? Can they set up a brand new IB program in just a few years?

- ASFS and Carlin Springs immersion. So that means that
Claremont’s immersion program moves to Carlin Springs and
Key immersion moves to ASFS?
Where do those currently attending Carlin Springs as a neighborhood school go? Does this effect Campbell’s location?

Again, I haven’t been following this thread regularly and tried to skim through the 19+ pages but there’s a lot here.
Thanks for your patience as I try to play catch up.

Thank you for catching me up.
Wow! That’s a lot to digest.


Nottingham IB means (1) they are considering moving ATS to Nottingham, and (2) whether ATS moves or not, they are considering eliminating the current ATS curriculum and making it an IB program instead. It will not be a new option program, it will replace ATS (but presumably no new lottery, they'll just phase in the IB curriculum with the students already enrolled at that point).

The Key immersion program is not going to ASFS. That was the staff's original thinking, but it's not happening anymore. Claremont immersion will go to Carlin Springs, and Key will go either to Barcroft or to the vacated ATS site if ATS moves to Nottingham. If immersion moves to Barcroft, the current Carlin Springs families either get pushed to Randolph/Claremont, or maybe APS will get crazy and send them over to Ashlawn (because otherwise those boundaries will still be a disaster after this move). If immersion moves to ATS instead, then current Carlin Springs families probably get split between Barcroft and Claremont.

Campbell will stay where it is.

It would be a lot easier to digest if the staff had been honest about their plan upfront so we could discuss that rather than wasting everyone’s time engaging in this fraud of a process.

[Anonymous]

So Im hearing ASFS stays neighborhood, Key immersion goes to Barcroft or ATS. What happens to the current Key building???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So Im hearing ASFS stays neighborhood, Key immersion goes to Barcroft or ATS. What happens to the current Key building???

Neighborhood school.