APS/SA boundary redrawing - meeting tonight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem got created by Arlington Democrats and their single minded obsession with building as much affordable housing as possible, regardless of impact. That's why they are clustered where costs are cheapest, regardless of the impact on the neighborhood, schools, services, etc

It's never enough for them either. HALF of students in south Arlington receive free and reduced meals. Half. Seems like we have plenty of affordable housing in SA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem got created by Arlington Democrats and their single minded obsession with building as much affordable housing as possible, regardless of impact. That's why they are clustered where costs are cheapest, regardless of the impact on the neighborhood, schools, services, etc

And it seems no one wants their kids bussed to a further away school to either create diversity at that school or to join a more diverse neighborhood school. For option schools, some families are willing to go further. But when no one wants to go further for a neighborhood school, we are stuck with the demographics surrounding the school.

And the CB adds insult to injury by not working hand in hand with the AB on staff many other issues — funding, land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem got created by Arlington Democrats and their single minded obsession with building as much affordable housing as possible, regardless of impact. That's why they are clustered where costs are cheapest, regardless of the impact on the neighborhood, schools, services, etc

And it seems no one wants their kids bussed to a further away school to either create diversity at that school or to join a more diverse neighborhood school. For option schools, some families are willing to go further. But when no one wants to go further for a neighborhood school, we are stuck with the demographics surrounding the school.

And the CB adds insult to injury by not working hand in hand with the AB on staff many other issues — funding, land.

Yet somehow in this case the wealthy families closest to Drew have managed to punt the boundary to families farther away. Hmmmm. Proximity matters, except when it doesn't.

And lastly, agree completely that the BS about there not being enough AH is just hat, BS. There isn't any N of Lee Hwy, and not enough in other parts of North Arlington. But there's too much in South Arlington. Not a single additional unit is "needed" here.

[Anonymous]

Except the neighborhoods in question Nauck and the Randolph area are all older neighborhoods that have been around for longer than most of us have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem got created by Arlington Democrats and their single minded obsession with building as much affordable housing as possible, regardless of impact. That's why they are clustered where costs are cheapest, regardless of the impact on the neighborhood, schools, services, etc

And it seems no one wants their kids bussed to a further away school to either create diversity at that school or to join a more diverse neighborhood school. For option schools, some families are willing to go further. But when no one wants to go further for a neighborhood school, we are stuck with the demographics surrounding the school.

And the CB adds insult to injury by not working hand in hand with the AB on staff many other issues — funding, land.

Yet somehow in this case the wealthy families closest to Drew have managed to punt the boundary to families farther away. Hmmmm. Proximity matters, except when it doesn't.

And lastly, agree completely that the BS about there not being enough AH is just hat, BS. There isn't any N of Lee Hwy, and not enough in other parts of North Arlington. But there's too much in South Arlington. Not a single additional unit is "needed" here.

Can’t wait until Katie Cristol has kids. Make sure to live in her S Arlington planning unit. Or maybe she will move to the Discovery zone and live next door to Ms Natrrass.

[Anonymous]

Katie Cristol is ambitious enough to send her kids to Randolph or Barcroft. She’s getting into Congress one way or the other.
If she sees her star fizzle you better believe her future kid will Miraculously win an ATS slot.
Just like other CB members...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem got created by Arlington Democrats and their single minded obsession with building as much affordable housing as possible, regardless of impact. That's why they are clustered where costs are cheapest, regardless of the impact on the neighborhood, schools, services, etc

And it seems no one wants their kids bussed to a further away school to either create diversity at that school or to join a more diverse neighborhood school. For option schools, some families are willing to go further. But when no one wants to go further for a neighborhood school, we are stuck with the demographics surrounding the school.

And the CB adds insult to injury by not working hand in hand with the AB on staff many other issues — funding, land.

Yet somehow in this case the wealthy families closest to Drew have managed to punt the boundary to families farther away. Hmmmm. Proximity matters, except when it doesn't.

And lastly, agree completely that the BS about there not being enough AH is just hat, BS. There isn't any N of Lee Hwy, and not enough in other parts of North Arlington. But there's too much in South Arlington. Not a single additional unit is "needed" here.

Can’t wait until Katie Cristol has kids. Make sure to live in her S Arlington planning unit. Or maybe she will move to the Discovery zone and live next door to Ms Natrrass.

IIRC, she lives in Columbia Heights, aka, the Henry PUs that are closer to Drew than Henry, but can't possibly be moved for some reason while they have to gerrymander a crazy noncontiguous boundary to the other side of 4 Mile Run. My goodness, those Henry parents look horrible on AEM.

[Anonymous]

AEM is a ridiculous bubble.
My family saw the writing on the wall and moved last year, but if we had stayed I’d be raising hell about those Henry PU’s. That area needs to be pushed to Drew. That boundary map is hilarious and predictable.
Arlington is so predictable.

[Anonymous]

Listen even if you move Columbia Heights to Drew and every middle class kid attends it is still going to be extremely high poverty. Drew and Randolph cannot be fixed without North Arlington. All this hand wringing, mud slinging, allegations of gerrymandering wont matter, don’t matter. Besides at least one of those Henry Planning Units is Douglas Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen even if you move Columbia Heights to Drew and every middle class kid attends it is still going to be extremely high poverty. Drew and Randolph cannot be fixed without North Arlington. All this hand wringing, mud slinging, allegations of gerrymandering wont matter, don’t matter. Besides at least one of those Henry Planning Units is Douglas Park.

They aren't ever going to be "fixed," as you put it. Not ever will there be a boundary for a neighborhood school that includes neighborhoods in North Arlington, simply because of geography. If we had a choice system, or turned one or both into option locations, maybe things would be different, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about adjacent PUs not being moved and rather a crazy boundary that crosses to the other side of 4MR, to protect the housing investments of those individuals who "bought" a "good" school when it was Henry. Just because you can't do everything, doesn't mean you should do nothing. This is seriously the most effed up thing yet. Nobody promised the future Henry community that their PUs would be grandfathered in perpetuity. Nobody. Not any more credible than saying "boofing" is just a term you used for flatulence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen even if you move Columbia Heights to Drew and every middle class kid attends it is still going to be extremely high poverty. Drew and Randolph cannot be fixed without North Arlington. All this hand wringing, mud slinging, allegations of gerrymandering wont matter, don’t matter. Besides at least one of those Henry Planning Units is Douglas Park.

Also, it's not allegations of gerrymandering. We all have eyes and can see the map. Columbia Forest is nowhere near the school. The Henry PUs S of Clumbia Pike are adjacent to Drew, they just are. Somebody from APS needs to explain how this is not gerrymandering, or catering to the demands of one school community, especially when it makes no sense on the surface from any of the objective criteria. It looks bad. They need to prove to us why it's not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem got created by Arlington Democrats and their single minded obsession with building as much affordable housing as possible, regardless of impact. That's why they are clustered where costs are cheapest, regardless of the impact on the neighborhood, schools, services, etc

And it seems no one wants their kids bussed to a further away school to either create diversity at that school or to join a more diverse neighborhood school. For option schools, some families are willing to go further. But when no one wants to go further for a neighborhood school, we are stuck with the demographics surrounding the school.

And the CB adds insult to injury by not working hand in hand with the AB on staff many other issues — funding, land.

Yet somehow in this case the wealthy families closest to Drew have managed to punt the boundary to families farther away. Hmmmm. Proximity matters, except when it doesn't.

And lastly, agree completely that the BS about there not being enough AH is just hat, BS. There isn't any N of Lee Hwy, and not enough in other parts of North Arlington. But there's too much in South Arlington. Not a single additional unit is "needed" here.

Can’t wait until Katie Cristol has kids. Make sure to live in her S Arlington planning unit. Or maybe she will move to the Discovery zone and live next door to Ms Natrrass.

IIRC, she lives in Columbia Heights, aka, the Henry PUs that are closer to Drew than Henry, but can't possibly be moved for some reason while they have to gerrymander a crazy noncontiguous boundary to the other side of 4 Mile Run. My goodness, those Henry parents look horrible on AEM.

She lives in the Randolph zone. She is a reading buddy there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen even if you move Columbia Heights to Drew and every middle class kid attends it is still going to be extremely high poverty. Drew and Randolph cannot be fixed without North Arlington. All this hand wringing, mud slinging, allegations of gerrymandering wont matter, don’t matter. Besides at least one of those Henry Planning Units is Douglas Park.

Also, it's not allegations of gerrymandering. We all have eyes and can see the map. Columbia Forest is nowhere near the school. The Henry PUs S of Clumbia Pike are adjacent to Drew, they just are. Somebody from APS needs to explain how this is not gerrymandering, or catering to the demands of one school community, especially when it makes no sense on the surface from any of the objective criteria. It looks bad. They need to prove to us why it's not.

Yep, this. The ONLY reason seems to be catering to the desire of one school community to stay together. Why that one community rather than others? Why violate all their stated rationales for boundaries for that one school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen even if you move Columbia Heights to Drew and every middle class kid attends it is still going to be extremely high poverty. Drew and Randolph cannot be fixed without North Arlington. All this hand wringing, mud slinging, allegations of gerrymandering wont matter, don’t matter. Besides at least one of those Henry Planning Units is Douglas Park.

Also, it's not allegations of gerrymandering. We all have eyes and can see the map. Columbia Forest is nowhere near the school. The Henry PUs S of Clumbia Pike are adjacent to Drew, they just are. Somebody from APS needs to explain how this is not gerrymandering, or catering to the demands of one school community, especially when it makes no sense on the surface from any of the objective criteria. It looks bad. They need to prove to us why it's not.

Yep, this. The ONLY reason seems to be catering to the desire of one school community to stay together. Why that one community rather than others? Why violate all their stated rationales for boundaries for that one school?

I assume it was matching t-shirts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Katie Cristol is ambitious enough to send her kids to Randolph or Barcroft. She’s getting into Congress one way or the other.
If she sees her star fizzle you better believe her future kid will Miraculously win an ATS slot.
Just like other CB members...

The concern, well founded, that MC parents have with majority poor schools, is that their kid won't be challenged, or worse, will be ignored because they come to school with a winter coat and the ability to read, while most of the other students have some non-academic obstacle in their home lives impeding their classroom achievement. No teacher at any school is going to ignore a sitting board member's kid. She can send them anywhere without reservation.