APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread

[Anonymous]

What is HPOK?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

It’s outrageous and I hope the Westover business community and the non-parent parts of that neighborhood in the County know this is going on.

Westover will be a ZOO with the car and bus traffic.

Why does HPOK get special treatment to avoid the traffic that is impacting every other neighborhood in Arlington? Boo-hoo.

Because they built a massive school on a tiny side street where there is already a middle school and a public library. Sorry where else is that happening in the county??

Fleet/TJ? Discovery/Williamsburg? Kenmore/Carlin Springs? Sorry HPOK, you guys aren't that special.

Messed up the quotes.

Nope. Not on the same size access roads with the same type of commercial center that close by.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

Same, neighbor, but I’m honestly not sure I care at this point. I just feel like the entire process is geared toward easing the transition for McKinley kids though under these proposals it seems like the vast majority of them would be staying together, just at a different location. I honestly just feel like I would rather have my kids stay where they are, not caught in the middle of this pissing contest between the HpOk CA complaining about traffic and buses, and and McK parents demanding that Reed be their exclusive neighborhood school. Particularly given what a mess this year is.

I'm with you, but I have a young elementary school child at this point. If they are going to move us to Reed, I want it to be now, not in 2 years when I have a 4th or 5th grader. I also want APS to spend their $$ on building new schools and improving education and not bussing kids. Honestly if they are going to go with Option B they might as well leave McKinley in the current building and just move ATS to Reed.

That's a good observation, there really is no point if they aren't going to balance enrollment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

Same, neighbor, but I’m honestly not sure I care at this point. I just feel like the entire process is geared toward easing the transition for McKinley kids though under these proposals it seems like the vast majority of them would be staying together, just at a different location. I honestly just feel like I would rather have my kids stay where they are, not caught in the middle of this pissing contest between the HpOk CA complaining about traffic and buses, and and McK parents demanding that Reed be their exclusive neighborhood school. Particularly given what a mess this year is.

I'm with you, but I have a young elementary school child at this point. If they are going to move us to Reed, I want it to be now, not in 2 years when I have a 4th or 5th grader. I also want APS to spend their $$ on building new schools and improving education and not bussing kids. Honestly if they are going to go with Option B they might as well leave McKinley in the current building and just move ATS to Reed.

Same. It’s just so crazy how the whining screamers get their way and we never do what makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

Same, neighbor, but I’m honestly not sure I care at this point. I just feel like the entire process is geared toward easing the transition for McKinley kids though under these proposals it seems like the vast majority of them would be staying together, just at a different location. I honestly just feel like I would rather have my kids stay where they are, not caught in the middle of this pissing contest between the HpOk CA complaining about traffic and buses, and and McK parents demanding that Reed be their exclusive neighborhood school. Particularly given what a mess this year is.

I'm with you, but I have a young elementary school child at this point. If they are going to move us to Reed, I want it to be now, not in 2 years when I have a 4th or 5th grader. I also want APS to spend their $$ on building new schools and improving education and not bussing kids. Honestly if they are going to go with Option B they might as well leave McKinley in the current building and just move ATS to Reed.

I agree. Why move ATS to Reed if you're keeping the entire McKinley community together? What's the point? Why not move ATS to Reed? No one would tolerate that though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

Same, neighbor, but I’m honestly not sure I care at this point. I just feel like the entire process is geared toward easing the transition for McKinley kids though under these proposals it seems like the vast majority of them would be staying together, just at a different location. I honestly just feel like I would rather have my kids stay where they are, not caught in the middle of this pissing contest between the HpOk CA complaining about traffic and buses, and and McK parents demanding that Reed be their exclusive neighborhood school. Particularly given what a mess this year is.

I'm with you, but I have a young elementary school child at this point. If they are going to move us to Reed, I want it to be now, not in 2 years when I have a 4th or 5th grader. I also want APS to spend their $$ on building new schools and improving education and not bussing kids. Honestly if they are going to go with Option B they might as well leave McKinley in the current building and just move ATS to Reed.

I hear you. I have kids of different ages. I’m not comfortable with having a kid who would transfer to Reed next year in one of the upper grades under this plan and given the tone of rhetoric on this whole process. But we’re in the same boat because our younger kids would then just move at a later grade. There’s no good answer.

[Anonymous]

This makes all the heartache of last year pointless.

If this is what they were going to do Reed should have just been option. Saved us all this BS.

What a load of crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes all the heartache of last year pointless.

If this is what they were going to do Reed should have just been option. Saved us all this BS.

What a load of crap.

Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner. You hit it on the head

[Anonymous]

Two schools in Option B sit outside their attendance zone...brilliant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

Same, neighbor, but I’m honestly not sure I care at this point. I just feel like the entire process is geared toward easing the transition for McKinley kids though under these proposals it seems like the vast majority of them would be staying together, just at a different location. I honestly just feel like I would rather have my kids stay where they are, not caught in the middle of this pissing contest between the HpOk CA complaining about traffic and buses, and and McK parents demanding that Reed be their exclusive neighborhood school. Particularly given what a mess this year is.

I don't entirely disagree, it just bothers me that they will spend money on buses (x 2, to Tuckahoe and to Reed) to cave to parents who simply don't want to go to schools that are closer to them. I moved a lot growing up, and I'm just stunned/baffled by the hysteria surrounding a student being reassigned to a new school (along with your neighbors).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is HPOK?

Highland Park Overlee Knolls, one of the neighborhoods around Reed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

Same, neighbor, but I’m honestly not sure I care at this point. I just feel like the entire process is geared toward easing the transition for McKinley kids though under these proposals it seems like the vast majority of them would be staying together, just at a different location. I honestly just feel like I would rather have my kids stay where they are, not caught in the middle of this pissing contest between the HpOk CA complaining about traffic and buses, and and McK parents demanding that Reed be their exclusive neighborhood school. Particularly given what a mess this year is.

I don't entirely disagree, it just bothers me that they will spend money on buses (x 2, to Tuckahoe and to Reed) to cave to parents who simply don't want to go to schools that are closer to them. I moved a lot growing up, and I'm just stunned/baffled by the hysteria surrounding a student being reassigned to a new school (along with your neighbors).

And make no mistake they’ll be raising our class sizes next year. In part because of Covid-related budget cuts and buried in there too will be paying for all these buses and drivers.

Yay Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A McKinley parent(s) must be sleeping with someone on the boundary project...

Seriously. I'm in the first tier of the Reed walk zone and they are going to continue to bus my kids to Tuckahoe so they can bus McKinley kids to a school which is a five minute walk from my door. Pathetic.

Same, neighbor, but I’m honestly not sure I care at this point. I just feel like the entire process is geared toward easing the transition for McKinley kids though under these proposals it seems like the vast majority of them would be staying together, just at a different location. I honestly just feel like I would rather have my kids stay where they are, not caught in the middle of this pissing contest between the HpOk CA complaining about traffic and buses, and and McK parents demanding that Reed be their exclusive neighborhood school. Particularly given what a mess this year is.

The McKinley PTA is driven by predictable planning units.

A lot of people aren’t paying attention because they are Reed no matter what and are going to wake up and realize their new school is already overcrowded and wonder what the hell happened.

This and the Reed site supposedly can’t take trailers. But I guess they’ll figure out where to put them after all. Right in the parking lot next to the beer garden.

[Anonymous]

Tania is doing a lot of thinking out loud. Do members not receive the presentations/maps in advance?

[Anonymous]

Are the options presented tonight literally the only options being considered? Would Duran recommend something that is different than any of these? The initial option has overcrowding issues out of the gate, and the other options have some seriously weird boundaries.