I know of so many with IEPs who left the school. |
Fwiw, we are house hunting and have one remaining child in ES with anxiety, no 504 or IEP, and we avoid Nottingham based purely on word of mouth. We are currently at another ES mentioned nearby. |
We are a happy Nottingham family. All 3 of my kids have gone through and we have always felt well taken care of. All of our interactions with the administration and staff has been wonderful. We did have some issues with bullying/mean girl dynamics...but nothing out of the realm of normal for an area like this. |
OP, if you’ve already moved into the area with school aged kids, what are you doing while deciding whether to enroll? Are you homeschooling? Whatever people say here about Nottingham, your options are really limited because local private schools are full and the best you can do with the county-wide option programs is put yourself at the end of a waitlist that isn’t going to move significantly in the second half of the year. I’m almost wondering if this is a troll trying to stir up anti-Nottingham sentiment because the premise of the question is pretty flawed - you don’t have many options other than to enroll. |
I’m the op. we are home schooling right now because we weren’t happy with virtual school in our previous state. We will definitely be enrolling when schools open! But just wanted perspective about how it was going with this year. Yeesh! I feel like I did stir up some school bashing. |
If you live in Arlington and are homeschooling school-aged children, you have to notify APS that you are homeschooling: https://www.apsva.us/home-instruction/ |
there's also a special needs forum for all things IEP, 504, ect. It tends to be helpful and non-bashing.
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We rebuilt in Arlington but looked at homes in other parts of Arlington first to see if we could just move to a home instead of rebuild and we specifically didn’t look at any homes in the Nottingham attendance zone because of their poor special education reputation. Special education parents talk and know each other and the issues at Nottingham seem to be nearly universally and difficult on even basic accommodations and legal timeline issues. |
You are right that special education parents talk, which means we know who is making this specific claim over and over again, and why. Not everyone shares this view. |
My theory is that the eastern half of North Arlington attracts a different, more chill kind of family. The houses in Donaldson Run and the neighborhoods that run up Military toward Washington Golf are plenty big and expensive, but many of them are older and less shiny than the teardowns surrounding Yorktown HS. I happen to live in one of those neighborhoods and have had neighbors say proudly (with a straight face) that our neighbors have middle class values (in $1.25 M houses). |
What are middle class values? |
I think I know this person too! |
I would consider reaching out to SEPTA to see if you could speak with someone who has a child with special needs at Nottingham. I have heard rumors that Nottingham was terrible at special needs (especially reading issues), somehow "got in trouble" for that, and has been much better the last few years. All that being said, I don't have children at Nottingham, and I'm not sure if the rumor is true. |
that is illegal |
It also doesn’t happen. PP is making assumptions about who has IEPs and who doesn’t, which is gross. |