What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?

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Anonymous wrote:So Im hearing ASFS stays neighborhood, Key immersion goes to Barcroft or ATS. What happens to the current Key building???

It becomes a neighborhood school

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Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

Just make a nice path to the current Williamsburg trailers. Maybe this map will help. The Map actually thinks the trailers are Discovery - ironic don't you think?

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Anonymous wrote:Cherrydalers suck!

Please. We live in Cherryvale and perfectly happy at Taylor. All of my kid's closest friends happen to live close to key and asfs so he'll lose his closest friends. We did not lobby for any of this. Even the families I know who live close to asfs told me they preferred to stay at Taylor so not all of us want this.

Let me be more specific then: the ones behind this fiasco suck.

They may have jumped on the opportunity, but they didn’t create it. Without neighborhood preference, Key has to be a neighborhood school. There are just too many kids around it for it.

The mass of ASFS humanity at office hours etc can now oAt themselces in tbe back and think they kept it as a neighborhood school. But really, it was the principals and the idea of putting both schools perhaps closer together and moving one to Carlin Springs.

Now, Tallento is going to try and prevent CS from becoming an option school crying about the traffic. But, she better lose. This plan makes much more sense so long as they don’t move ATS to the NW and make it the N Arlington free private school.

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Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

Just make a nice path to the current Williamsburg trailers. Maybe this map will help. The Map actually thinks the trailers are Discovery - ironic don't you think?



It’s a security risk because there’s no line-of-sight access to Discovery from that part of the Williamsburg lot, a teacher would have to take the kids around a blind corner. Again, go look at the study, APS has said definitively that Discovery can’t take trailers. Your willful ignorance won’t change that.

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Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

Just make a nice path to the current Williamsburg trailers. Maybe this map will help. The Map actually thinks the trailers are Discovery - ironic don't you think?



It’s a security risk because there’s no line-of-sight access to Discovery from that part of the Williamsburg lot, a teacher would have to take the kids around a blind corner. Again, go look at the study, APS has said definitively that Discovery can’t take trailers. Your willful ignorance won’t change that.

Are Discovery kids allowed on the soccer field? Do they have line of site as well?

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Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

Just make a nice path to the current Williamsburg trailers. Maybe this map will help. The Map actually thinks the trailers are Discovery - ironic don't you think?



It’s a security risk because there’s no line-of-sight access to Discovery from that part of the Williamsburg lot, a teacher would have to take the kids around a blind corner. Again, go look at the study, APS has said definitively that Discovery can’t take trailers. Your willful ignorance won’t change that.

Are Discovery kids allowed on the soccer field? Do they have line of site as well?

It actually doesn’t because of the fencing around the playground and the brick wall along the front entrance. Also, APS makes money from ASA and other local soccer leagues that pay permit fees for use of those fields, and since they’re turf the leagues pay a premium. APS isn’t going to give that up easily if they can just put more trailers at McKinley or Jamestown instead.

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Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

Just make a nice path to the current Williamsburg trailers. Maybe this map will help. The Map actually thinks the trailers are Discovery - ironic don't you think?



It’s a security risk because there’s no line-of-sight access to Discovery from that part of the Williamsburg lot, a teacher would have to take the kids around a blind corner. Again, go look at the study, APS has said definitively that Discovery can’t take trailers. Your willful ignorance won’t change that.

Are Discovery kids allowed on the soccer field? Do they have line of site as well?

It actually doesn’t because of the fencing around the playground and the brick wall along the front entrance. Also, APS makes money from ASA and other local soccer leagues that pay permit fees for use of those fields, and since they’re turf the leagues pay a premium. APS isn’t going to give that up easily if they can just put more trailers at McKinley or Jamestown instead.

So Discovery kids can play on the soccer fields without line of site but they cannot use trailers on the Williamsburg tennis courts without line of site? Yeah that makes sense.

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no line-of-sight access

All APS trailers are within line-of-sight of the main building??? Huh?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cherrydalers suck!

Please. We live in Cherryvale and perfectly happy at Taylor. All of my kid's closest friends happen to live close to key and asfs so he'll lose his closest friends. We did not lobby for any of this. Even the families I know who live close to asfs told me they preferred to stay at Taylor so not all of us want this.

Let me be more specific then: the ones behind this fiasco suck.

They may have jumped on the opportunity, but they didn’t create it. Without neighborhood preference, Key has to be a neighborhood school. There are just too many kids around it for it.

The mass of ASFS humanity at office hours etc can now oAt themselces in tbe back and think they kept it as a neighborhood school. But really, it was the principals and the idea of putting both schools perhaps closer together and moving one to Carlin Springs.

Now, Tallento is going to try and prevent CS from becoming an option school crying about the traffic. But, she better lose. This plan makes much more sense so long as they don’t move ATS to the NW and make it the N Arlington free private school.

Well, they are going to be really disappointed when most of them get pulled into the Key Boundary, don't you think? And I don't think Talento will have anything to say about the traffic. She's the one who said major roads were better for option schools.

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Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

Just make a nice path to the current Williamsburg trailers. Maybe this map will help. The Map actually thinks the trailers are Discovery - ironic don't you think?



It’s a security risk because there’s no line-of-sight access to Discovery from that part of the Williamsburg lot, a teacher would have to take the kids around a blind corner. Again, go look at the study, APS has said definitively that Discovery can’t take trailers. Your willful ignorance won’t change that.

Are Discovery kids allowed on the soccer field? Do they have line of site as well?

It actually doesn’t because of the fencing around the playground and the brick wall along the front entrance. Also, APS makes money from ASA and other local soccer leagues that pay permit fees for use of those fields, and since they’re turf the leagues pay a premium. APS isn’t going to give that up easily if they can just put more trailers at McKinley or Jamestown instead.

So Discovery kids can play on the soccer fields without line of site but they cannot use trailers on the Williamsburg tennis courts without line of site? Yeah that makes sense.

Discovery students don’t use the soccer fields.

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no line-of-sight access

All APS trailers are within line-of-sight of the main building??? Huh?

Are they not? I think they have to be for safety reasons.

[Anonymous]

This Discovery trailer debate is so old, it’s just trolling to rile up Discovery people. Don’t waste your time, people.

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no line-of-sight access

All APS trailers are within line-of-sight of the main building??? Huh?

Are they not? I think they have to be for safety reasons.

And liability. First time a kid runs off during the school day because a teacher lost sight of him/her while going around that wall, APS will have a serious problem.

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no line-of-sight access

All APS trailers are within line-of-sight of the main building??? Huh?

Are they not? I think they have to be for safety reasons.

And liability. First time a kid runs off during the school day because a teacher lost sight of him/her while going around that wall, APS will have a serious problem.

Teachers watch the kids go from the trailer to/from the school?

My kids were in trailers at various points and the teachers certainly could not see from the classroom to the school building door - it was on the other side and around a corner. Children went (in pairs) to the building and back for various things. They could have easily walked off the campus as well.

Not saying to add trailers at Discovery but I find it hard to believe this is any kind of official APS policy.

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Anonymous wrote:And what are they going to do in 2020 when they need more seats in the NW? Jamestown can't expand boundaries, Discovery can't take trailers (don't buy that) and Reed will be maxed out b/c of size.

Go look at the Facilities Optimization study and tell me where you'd put trailers on Discovery. There is literally no green space other than the narrow, steep hill between the building and the street.

Some schools put trailers on parking lots.

The Discovery parking lot can't accommodate a trailer, there's a deep stormwater basin running down the middle of it.

Just make a nice path to the current Williamsburg trailers. Maybe this map will help. The Map actually thinks the trailers are Discovery - ironic don't you think?