Transfers in Arl. at elementary level

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I would suggest educating yourself about the process more, perhaps attend some school board meetings, etc. Some of the kids you're talking about have been at Tuckahoe for a couple of years already. If you leave them at Tuckahoe, you're just shifting trailers from McKinley to Tuckahoe (because yes, even though numbers there have fallen, Tuckahoe and Nottingham still have trailers). If you move them to Discovery, then they're going from a couple of years in Tuckahoe to a couple of years in Discovery and then a couple of years in McKinley, which is way too much bouncing around.

Where are those kids going to go? No one is going to bus them past Tuckahoe and Nottingham to Discovery, so you'll just end up moving them from trailers at McKinley to trailers at one of those two schools.

I feel like there must be some disconnect there. I'm very involved in the process. The planning unit moving from Tuckahoe to McKinley will move next year. Those kids haven't gone anywhere, yet. Even though McKinley is under construction right now, the projections for the next two years are way over the number of seats they will have. Glebe is also sending students to McKinley next year. The planning unit from Tuckahoe is right up against Lee Highway. It's not like the students would be bussed to Oakridge. The question is, why are they moving them from Tuckahoe trailers to McKinley trailers? It doesn't solve anything?

Also, size matters. Yes, Nottingham has trailers (who doesn't, really?), but they also have classes with less than 20 kids. That means that lunches and recess are more manageable. When you get above a certain size (the SB determined that's 725, BTW), there are impacts to how the school can function.

Okay Tuckahoe parent, how about answering my earlier question. If you are really so concerned about McKinley's overpopulation, why were you arguing in favor of moving BOTH Tuckahoe units to McKinley several months ago even though that would have clearly pushed McKinley to be overcapacity?

You wanted to overpopulate McKinley just a little while ago, to the detriment of all students at that school, for your own personal benefit (so 2 giant planning units could stay together). I'm not really moved by your arguments now that McKinley's overpopulation is a deal breaker for you. McKinley being overpopulated was your best case scenario last year. STOP WHINING! Grow up. Stop using your white privilege to ask for everything to be switched around to just the way you want it. Go to meetings and stop complaining and work to make whatever school you go to better.

Not a Discovery parent.

I'm pretty sure there were Tuckahoe parents at every school board meeting.

Different poster, but I have no clue how this is relevant to pp's point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's the one point you respond to?

Answer my question, please. Why did you want to burden McKinley with 2 planning units of 150, putting the whole school above capacity, just so your kids could have ~20 neighborhood friends in each grade instead of ~10? But suddenly NOW McKinley's being over capacity is the line over which you will not cross?

SMH at your selfishness.

NP, genius.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's the one point you respond to?

Answer my question, please. Why did you want to burden McKinley with 2 planning units of 150, putting the whole school above capacity, just so your kids could have ~20 neighborhood friends in each grade instead of ~10? But suddenly NOW McKinley's being over capacity is the line over which you will not cross?

SMH at your selfishness.

This was addressed to 12:28.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Go to meetings and stop complaining and work to make whatever school you go to better.

Not a Discovery parent.

I'm pretty sure there were Tuckahoe parents at every school board meeting.

Different poster, but I have no clue how this is relevant to pp's point.

That's why it's relevant. I'm pretty sure those Tuckahoe parents were more involved than most.

[Anonymous]

Arguing and complaining about this NOW is retarded! It's a done deal. Move on! I heard MS and HS is the in topic now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SMH at your selfishness.

I know the feeling. I felt the same way I listened to the Nottingham parents pushing against the Tuckahoe move to Nottingham b/c they deserved a break.

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*crickets from OP*

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So, can you transfer to Discovery or not?

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Have you considered homeschooling?

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Anonymous wrote:SMH at your selfishness.

I know the feeling. I felt the same way I listened to the Nottingham parents pushing against the Tuckahoe move to Nottingham b/c they deserved a break.

Ha! Yeah. I feel badly for those kids stuck in the middle there between Tuckahoe, McKinley & Nottingham. They aren't close enough to any of the schools to be anchored, so their neighborhood is alway in flux. One day, APS will turn Reed into an ES and the neighborhood will have its own school, but that is many, many years away.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to meetings and stop complaining and work to make whatever school you go to better.

Not a Discovery parent.

I'm pretty sure there were Tuckahoe parents at every school board meeting.

Different poster, but I have no clue how this is relevant to pp's point.

That's why it's relevant. I'm pretty sure those Tuckahoe parents were more involved than most.

No, they weren't. Tuckahoe was vocal, Nottingham was very vocal, and the families living in the planning units at issue were very vocal, particularly about wanting to stay with their neighborhood. Now they are, and they're unhappy that they got what they asked for (not the pp who made this same point ealier, btw).

[Anonymous]

They didn't stay with their neighborhood. Two planning units were supposed to move to Nottingham together. Nottingham pushed back. The two units wanted to stay together, but McKinley couldn't fit them both. So, they got split up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, can you transfer to Discovery or not?

Probably. But no transportation will be provided. And if Discovery becomes overcrowded in the future, there is a chance they could boot your kid. Call the school and ask.

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Anonymous wrote:They didn't stay with their neighborhood. Two planning units were supposed to move to Nottingham together. Nottingham pushed back. The two units wanted to stay together, but McKinley couldn't fit them both. So, they got split up.

It's upsetting that you thought overcapacity should be NBD when provided some slight benefit your kids -- to keep them together with more friends -- and hurt the rest of the school, but now overcapacity is a terrible, terrible deprivation that should permit you to get a special privilege that the county should subsidize. Insufferable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They didn't stay with their neighborhood. Two planning units were supposed to move to Nottingham together. Nottingham pushed back. The two units wanted to stay together, but McKinley couldn't fit them both. So, they got split up.

It's upsetting that you thought overcapacity should be NBD when provided some slight benefit your kids -- to keep them together with more friends -- and hurt the rest of the school, but now overcapacity is a terrible, terrible deprivation that should permit you to get a special privilege that the county should subsidize. Insufferable.

13:36 - I'm not your Tuckahoe parent, but I did watch this whole thing go down. There are more than 2 posters on this thread.