Tuckahoe by the numbers - how can it stay a neighborhood school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a Tuckahoe parent ------ These numbers are today. By the time Reed opens, the number of students will have gone up. So, when calculating boundaries, do not put 725 in Reed. They aren't going to REPEAT opening up another school filled to the brim while seats are 1 mile away. I wonder if they won't find they need all those seats when this all happens in 3 years. It's better to leave room for transfers than to tie their hands with another choice school. No more choice schools!!

YES YES YES!!!! I wish everyone would stop focusing on the immediate numbers. They are, and will continue to increase. I really hope APS does not make long term decisions with short term numbers. This will just result in another headache further down the road. If a school that is not convenient to most of the county is under-enrolled by 100 or so students, let it be an option for transfer with transportation. Otherwise, this will be a big mess all over again that is completely avoidable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a Tuckahoe parent ------ These numbers are today. By the time Reed opens, the number of students will have gone up. So, when calculating boundaries, do not put 725 in Reed. They aren't going to REPEAT opening up another school filled to the brim while seats are 1 mile away. I wonder if they won't find they need all those seats when this all happens in 3 years. It's better to leave room for transfers than to tie their hands with another choice school. No more choice schools!!

YES YES YES!!!! I wish everyone would stop focusing on the immediate numbers. They are, and will continue to increase. I really hope APS does not make long term decisions with short term numbers. This will just result in another headache further down the road. If a school that is not convenient to most of the county is under-enrolled by 100 or so students, let it be an option for transfer with transportation. Otherwise, this will be a big mess all over again that is completely avoidable.

Ooh, so you're gonna go with the Williamsburg argument. Sorry, won't work. And now everyone knows your projected numbers are bogus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a Tuckahoe parent ------ These numbers are today. By the time Reed opens, the number of students will have gone up. So, when calculating boundaries, do not put 725 in Reed. They aren't going to REPEAT opening up another school filled to the brim while seats are 1 mile away. I wonder if they won't find they need all those seats when this all happens in 3 years. It's better to leave room for transfers than to tie their hands with another choice school. No more choice schools!!

YES YES YES!!!! I wish everyone would stop focusing on the immediate numbers. They are, and will continue to increase. I really hope APS does not make long term decisions with short term numbers. This will just result in another headache further down the road. If a school that is not convenient to most of the county is under-enrolled by 100 or so students, let it be an option for transfer with transportation. Otherwise, this will be a big mess all over again that is completely avoidable.

Ooh, so you're gonna go with the Williamsburg argument. Sorry, won't work. And now everyone knows your projected numbers are bogus.

Winning! Let's not do the option and have a bunch of elementary schools under-enrolled by 100-200 students. That is how NW Arlington rolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Winning! Let's not do the option and have a bunch of elementary schools under-enrolled by 100-200 students. That is how NW Arlington rolls.

That's just not going to happen. This isn't the Williamsburg answer because the kids entering MS are in the system already. We know about them. Many of the kids who will be in ES in 2021 aren't in APS right now. The location close to 66 actually makes Tuckahoe a great location to bus in other kids to fill seats if you are right. I love how Tuckahoe parents claim 8 busses with destroy the commute for anyone who travels westbound in the AM.

[Anonymous]

So, Tuckahoe will either be turned into an option school b/c there are too many seats or will still be overcrowded when Reed opens as a neighborhood school b/c there will be so many more students.

Which is it, kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, Tuckahoe will either be turned into an option school b/c there are too many seats or will still be overcrowded when Reed opens as a neighborhood school b/c there will be so many more students.

Which is it, kids?

No. Someone is arguing to leave it as a neighborhood school under enrolled for future growth. Probably at someone’s expense.

[Anonymous]

White snowflakes to their battle stations.

[Anonymous]

Tuckahoe holdouts actually believe a bunch of apartment buildings and condos will rise along Lee highway and they will build on the EFC metro parking lot all within the next 5 years. These are things that have been talked about for 30+ years. Some how it is going to happen overnight like the big beautiful wall on the border with Mexico. I hate to say it but Rome wasn't built in a day and it will be a long time before we break ground on affordable housing near Tuckahoe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe holdouts actually believe a bunch of apartment buildings and condos will rise along Lee highway and they will build on the EFC metro parking lot all within the next 5 years. These are things that have been talked about for 30+ years. Some how it is going to happen overnight like the big beautiful wall on the border with Mexico. I hate to say it but Rome wasn't built in a day and it will be a long time before we break ground on affordable housing near Tuckahoe.

Please read the letter that went to the School Board. You will see that not only will Tuckahoe be filled beyond capacity but we will need another Elementary School near EFC.

http://tuckahoe.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/Boundary-Choice-Letter.pdf

[Anonymous]

Poor Tuckahoe snowflakes. I can't wait for those big beautiful busses to enliven their neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

I don't get why Tuckahoe parents would want to fight Tuckahoe becoming a choice school. Tuckahoe is the worst school in northwest Arlington. They're be better off at Nottingham in terms of property value and education. But whatevs, fun to watch the fireworks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please read the letter that went to the School Board. You will see that not only will Tuckahoe be filled beyond capacity but we will need another Elementary School near EFC.

http://tuckahoe.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/02/Boundary-Choice-Letter.pdf

Please. O'Connell starts and ends over an hour before Tuckahoe, yet you're using proximity as an argument for congestion. Nice try. Your garden certainly sounds lovely, but the needs of 30,000 kids in the school system outweigh a garden. Seriously, you're spending 2 pages of your 6 page letter hanging your hat on a pseudo Greek plaza and friendship garden????????

A Tuckahoe parent earlier on AEM was complaining that Tuckahoe families got screwed by being sent to McKinley and Nottingham. IIRC, Tuckahoe was actively seeking relief trying to get families moved out due to the overcrowding. You can't now complain that they got screwed by actually being moved. Or, maybe those families did, but the broader Tuckahoe community didn't, since they got relief from the overcrowding.

Maybe the results of the study will play out that all schools should stay in their current locations, but if Tuckahoe comes in as having potentially the spare capacity that would allow movement of an option school, then so be it.

[Anonymous]

So Tuckahoe planning unit 16110 talked non-stop during the middle school boundaries about how they wanted to stay at Swanson and not move to Williamsburg so they could bike and walk along the trail to school... now they get their chance to move to McKinley and do just that for elementary school, but they want to fight to stay on a bus and cross Washington Blvd at rush hour so they can continue going to Tuckahoe? Which is it?

[Anonymous]

That letter reeks of cold sweat and desperation. It’s the written version of verbal diarrhea.

If I were on the school board and read that letter I would think that these people obviously know that their school is a good target for being converted into an option school. It would pique my interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe holdouts actually believe a bunch of apartment buildings and condos will rise along Lee highway and they will build on the EFC metro parking lot all within the next 5 years. These are things that have been talked about for 30+ years. Some how it is going to happen overnight like the big beautiful wall on the border with Mexico. I hate to say it but Rome wasn't built in a day and it will be a long time before we break ground on affordable housing near Tuckahoe.

+1,000-- we bought into Westover over a decade ago and they were talking about redeveloping the EFC metro parking lot then. Unless the AEFC civic association has some inside pull with VDOT and WMATA that the Arlington County Board doesn't, this is not going to happen anytime soon. The Tuckahoe PTA needs to brush up on their Arlington County history. That letter was a lot of noise but not a lot of reality.