APS Superintendent High School Overcrowding Plan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...I mean, they are zoned to Carlin Springs ES and Kenmore MS, so I can't imagine being rezoned at the HS level would make too much difference...

i beg to differ. i think HS is the deciding factor of home values, especially in S Arl.

Disagree
Many of us are very comfortable with Wakefield. Gunston and Jefferson are fine.


The elementaries are where you see the issues.

I'm fine with Wakefield as it is, too. I won't be fine with it if part of my child's day is spent at home participating in distance learning or if he starts his school day at 1 pm on the second shift. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...I mean, they are zoned to Carlin Springs ES and Kenmore MS, so I can't imagine being rezoned at the HS level would make too much difference...

i beg to differ. i think HS is the deciding factor of home values, especially in S Arl.

Disagree
Many of us are very comfortable with Wakefield. Gunston and Jefferson are fine.


The elementaries are where you see the issues.

I'm fine with Wakefield as it is, too. I won't be fine with it if part of my child's day is spent at home participating in distance learning or if he starts his school day at 1 pm on the second shift. No thank you.

+1000

[Anonymous]

APS has a short window to get its act together or Arlington will start seeing a substantial exodus of higher-income taxpayers. I'm not sure if it's arrogance or just incompetence, but they are exhausting our patience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS has a short window to get its act together or Arlington will start seeing a substantial exodus of higher-income taxpayers. I'm not sure if it's arrogance or just incompetence, but they are exhausting our patience.

Please let them know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS has a short window to get its act together or Arlington will start seeing a substantial exodus of higher-income taxpayers. I'm not sure if it's arrogance or just incompetence, but they are exhausting our patience.

Please let them know this.

You are 15% of households who take out much more than you put in. Good riddance as far as they're concerned. Go be Mclean's problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS has a short window to get its act together or Arlington will start seeing a substantial exodus of higher-income taxpayers. I'm not sure if it's arrogance or just incompetence, but they are exhausting our patience.

Please let them know this.

You are 15% of households who take out much more than you put in. Good riddance as far as they're concerned. Go be Mclean's problem.

Well, you want all of the tax burden to be shifted to you, or to local businesses? It's not like Arlington will lower taxes, so if that's why you're cheering you shouldn't get ahead of yourself. If it's not schools, it will be some other thing they need to spend $ on, and it probably won't be something that will directly benefit you either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS has a short window to get its act together or Arlington will start seeing a substantial exodus of higher-income taxpayers. I'm not sure if it's arrogance or just incompetence, but they are exhausting our patience.

Please let them know this.

You are 15% of households who take out much more than you put in. Good riddance as far as they're concerned. Go be Mclean's problem.

Plop my house down in an even more convenient location in DC and it would go for a fraction of the price. It is 100% the schools that account for the difference. You need to look at the percentage of the population that has bought in Arlington at these high prices, not the population as a whole. I do not know a single family who has moved to Arlington from DC / MD / or elsewhere in VA who did not do so because of the schools. I'd venture to say it's about 90% of those buyers are in it for the schools.

[Anonymous]

On addressing the high school level, the school board seems to be more aggressive than the superintendent and his staff. They are definitely responding to citizen pressure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On addressing the high school level, the school board seems to be more aggressive than the superintendent and his staff. They are definitely responding to citizen pressure.

I agree. I home people are putting pressure on the ACB, as well. Without help in the form of sharing debt or turning over land, APS won't be able to make this happen.

[Anonymous]

Will it make any difference attending the SB meeting tonight? I have asked my spouse to go. I'll be at home w/ the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On addressing the high school level, the school board seems to be more aggressive than the superintendent and his staff. They are definitely responding to citizen pressure.

I agree. I home people are putting pressure on the ACB, as well. Without help in the form of sharing debt or turning over land, APS won't be able to make this happen.

We should definitely be putting pressure on the County Board, too. Only the Board can make the land available for a new high school. I wonder who on the CB we need to target? I know that Christian Dorsey has young kids - his oldest is a second grader at ATS and his youngest is preschool age. His kids will be hitting high school during the capacity crisis. He should be in the same boat as most of us here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS has a short window to get its act together or Arlington will start seeing a substantial exodus of higher-income taxpayers. I'm not sure if it's arrogance or just incompetence, but they are exhausting our patience.

Please let them know this.

You are 15% of households who take out much more than you put in. Good riddance as far as they're concerned. Go be Mclean's problem.

Plop my house down in an even more convenient location in DC and it would go for a fraction of the price. It is 100% the schools that account for the difference. You need to look at the percentage of the population that has bought in Arlington at these high prices, not the population as a whole. I do not know a single family who has moved to Arlington from DC / MD / or elsewhere in VA who did not do so because of the schools. I'd venture to say it's about 90% of those buyers are in it for the schools.

No. Not true. Houses are plenty expensive in DC and they are zoned to shitty schools. Look, I'm gonna have a kid in highschool too. It all sounds terrible, but Arlington will still get the taxes they need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On addressing the high school level, the school board seems to be more aggressive than the superintendent and his staff. They are definitely responding to citizen pressure.

I agree. I home people are putting pressure on the ACB, as well. Without help in the form of sharing debt or turning over land, APS won't be able to make this happen.

We should definitely be putting pressure on the County Board, too. Only the Board can make the land available for a new high school. I wonder who on the CB we need to target? I know that Christian Dorsey has young kids - his oldest is a second grader at ATS and his youngest is preschool age. His kids will be hitting high school during the capacity crisis. He should be in the same boat as most of us here.

YES. I feel like the SB is saying, in effect, these are the only options we have. Unless someone offers up more land and more money, we can't accommodate everyone and keep offering traditional, comprehensive high school programs. I'm not sure how much control they have at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will it make any difference attending the SB meeting tonight? I have asked my spouse to go. I'll be at home w/ the kids.

Will it show that people are paying attention? Yes. Will it make a difference? I don't know.

If your spouse plans on speaking, the only option is to try to get a paper slip for speaking. I'm not sure how that works, but the deadline for signup was yesterday at 4. The meeting will be broadcast on TV, too, if you want to watch, but can't attend.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone think this ridiculous proposal is just to get leverage to get the CB to do what the schools want?