APS Elementary boundaries superintendent recommendation

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Anonymous wrote:Moving buildings while we are all out is the perfect time.

But why did we move all these programs to find ourselves without balanced capacity and without prioritizing all the walk zones? And having to move programs yet again?

Because Duran and APS can't say no to the McKinley PTA apparently

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The rich win again.

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This is so great! Title 1 schools and high frls in NA. ROFL. SALA is gaining territory. Seriously this is such great news. Getting my popcorn to watch all of NA piling on Key abs Barrett.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so great! Title 1 schools and high frls in NA. ROFL. SALA is gaining territory. Seriously this is such great news. Getting my popcorn to watch all of NA piling on Key abs Barrett.

Key abs Barrett?

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Anonymous wrote:This is so great! Title 1 schools and high frls in NA. ROFL. SALA is gaining territory. Seriously this is such great news. Getting my popcorn to watch all of NA piling on Key abs Barrett.

Key abs Barrett?

Key AND Barrett, I believe. "bs" is one key over from "nd" on the keyboard.

It's not just Key and Barrett. Long Branch is one CAF and a few former immersion kids away from 50% FARMs. If you look at the Affordable Housing Master Plan, I-66 is the new Route 50.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so great! Title 1 schools and high frls in NA. ROFL. SALA is gaining territory. Seriously this is such great news. Getting my popcorn to watch all of NA piling on Key abs Barrett.

It would appear that you are the one “piling on” to...something.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving buildings while we are all out is the perfect time.

But why did we move all these programs to find ourselves without balanced capacity and without prioritizing all the walk zones? And having to move programs yet again?

Because Duran and APS can't say no to the McKinley PTA apparently

More so because Ashlawn is so over capacity while other NA schools are well under capacity. In 2 years, it is more likely for students to move north rather than cluster to the middle. We prefer moving to Ashlawn because our kids are old enough to walk to and from school without relying on us to wait in a conga line of cars for drop off and pick up (a mess for Westover).

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe they could do an upper/lower for long branch and Barrett. I didn’t realize Barrett was a title 1 school.

Long branch is 33%, combining them would end up with 50% overall with the Red Cross development. Barrett and Ashlawn would be better, but mostly it’s time to accept that the “South Arlington” school problem is moving to schools in central Arlington as well because of concentrated affordable housing in the R-B corridor.

How is sending the Red Cross kids to Barrett making that school 70% better than moving them to long branch so that school becomes 50%? Ashlawn would be good, but will not happen bc now it isn’t ok to bus poor kids. It may be better for you in the long branch zone, but not better for those kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so great! Title 1 schools and high frls in NA. ROFL. SALA is gaining territory. Seriously this is such great news. Getting my popcorn to watch all of NA piling on Key abs Barrett.

Key abs Barrett?

Key AND Barrett, I believe. "bs" is one key over from "nd" on the keyboard.

It's not just Key and Barrett. Long Branch is one CAF and a few former immersion kids away from 50% FARMs. If you look at the Affordable Housing Master Plan, I-66 is the new Route 50.

Maybe then all of you north Arlington residents will start pushing back against so much affordable housing, period. It is still being built even though other priorities have been cut. We are running out of room for cafs in south Arlington.

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All those Lyon Village families who thought kicking Key out of Key would get them a neighborhood school... I wonder how they are feeling right now. From the map, it looks like there are perhaps 10-15 houses in Lyon Village which will be zoned to Key, and I know at least 3 of them don't have elementary school aged kids.

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Anonymous wrote:All those Lyon Village families who thought kicking Key out of Key would get them a neighborhood school... I wonder how they are feeling right now. From the map, it looks like there are perhaps 10-15 houses in Lyon Village which will be zoned to Key, and I know at least 3 of them don't have elementary school aged kids.

It was never about Lyon Village for those paying attention. It was always about Rosslyn. I think most of Lyon Village is happy to not be zoned to the new poor school though. From what I heard they were rallying around “keeping their neighborhood together” at ASFS a la One Fairlington.

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Anonymous wrote:All those Lyon Village families who thought kicking Key out of Key would get them a neighborhood school... I wonder how they are feeling right now. From the map, it looks like there are perhaps 10-15 houses in Lyon Village which will be zoned to Key, and I know at least 3 of them don't have elementary school aged kids.

It was never about Lyon Village for those paying attention. It was always about Rosslyn. I think most of Lyon Village is happy to not be zoned to the new poor school though. From what I heard they were rallying around “keeping their neighborhood together” at ASFS a la One Fairlington.

+1 A lot of LV goes private.

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Anonymous wrote:All those Lyon Village families who thought kicking Key out of Key would get them a neighborhood school... I wonder how they are feeling right now. From the map, it looks like there are perhaps 10-15 houses in Lyon Village which will be zoned to Key, and I know at least 3 of them don't have elementary school aged kids.

You are uninformed. The vast amount of LV families were NOT pushing for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

It has nothing to do with McKinley. Many of the current APS families in 16090 want to stay at Glebe because they don't want to change schools in the middle of a pandemic. Go watch the work session videos because Lisa Stengle explicitly said that they talked to families in 16090 who are currently at Glebe and they don't want to move right now. I get that the preschool parents in 16090 are pitching a fit because god forbid your kids might have to move from Glebe to Reed in 1st grade, but go talk to your neighbors about why they don't want to uproot their kids right now. Distance learning sucks and we'll probably still be doing it through the end of 2021. At the very least, families want to keep their kids with the teachers and support staff that their kids already know because it is extremely difficult to build rapport with new teachers over MS Teams.

Terrible reason. Pandemic is the perfect time to rip off the bandaid. Kids won't even know that they are in a different school.

Everything is getting re-drawn in two years. Whatever they do now is just temporary to get through the pandemic. That has been made crystal-clear by both Duran and the School Board.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anybody have an explanation of why 16090, which can walk to reed, is at glebe while 14090, which is closer to 4 other schools, is being bussed to reed?

Why not put 14090 at glebe and 16090 at reed. That seems really logical to m e.

Bc a few crazies at McK made a stink and are shouting to not split up the school.

Pretty sure McK won't care about those very few families. The PU is what, a dozen or two?