APS Boundary tool--anyone get it to work yet?

[Anonymous]

What is also annoying is the N. Arlington mom who goes to the last SB meeting to bemoan the fact that her HS aged daughter doesn't have enough diversity in their lily white school. WTF? Seriously. Why do you want everyone else to be bussed in? You can always request a transfer to Wakefield. Why should tons of people be inconvenienced so you can feel less guilty about your choice.
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Oh yeah. The chutzpah of that woman wanting to see Arlington integrate its schools, when she has the the "choice" to send her kids to Wakefield--currently operating at 50% poverty. Heaven forbid APS look at demographics. That's not part of the boundary criteria. Oh wait, it is? Nevermind. There still must be something wrong with her. She should keep her mouth shut and just enjoy the latent racism of N. Arlington.

[Anonymous]

People need to get their heads out of their asses and use their brains. If they don't take demographics into consideration, what exactly do they think is going to happen to WL in a couple of years? More and more people are going to try and shoehorn into whatever the new boundary is, especially if they increase the Wakefield FARMS rate. Hell, I bought for a home zoned Wakefield and have been totally fine with it, but I'll move in bounds for WL when the time comes, if Wakefield's demographics deteriorate.
We'll be right back where we started. It's a system wide problem, and has to be addressed as such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People need to get their heads out of their asses and use their brains. If they don't take demographics into consideration, what exactly do they think is going to happen to WL in a couple of years? More and more people are going to try and shoehorn into whatever the new boundary is, especially if they increase the Wakefield FARMS rate. Hell, I bought for a home zoned Wakefield and have been totally fine with it, but I'll move in bounds for WL when the time comes, if Wakefield's demographics deteriorate.
We'll be right back where we started. It's a system wide problem, and has to be addressed as such.

Mic drop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is also annoying is the N. Arlington mom who goes to the last SB meeting to bemoan the fact that her HS aged daughter doesn't have enough diversity in their lily white school. WTF? Seriously. Why do you want everyone else to be bussed in? You can always request a transfer to Wakefield. Why should tons of people be inconvenienced so you can feel less guilty about your choice.
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Oh yeah. The chutzpah of that woman wanting to see Arlington integrate its schools, when she has the the "choice" to send her kids to Wakefield--currently operating at 50% poverty. Heaven forbid APS look at demographics. That's not part of the boundary criteria. Oh wait, it is? Nevermind. There still must be something wrong with her. She should keep her mouth shut and just enjoy the latent racism of N. Arlington.

No. If she really gave a shit she wouldn't have moved up to the whitest area if arlington. Like they said at the meetings people can request transfers to wakefield. What she is proposing to do is to inconvenience tons of people by having the poorer kids bus all the way across town just so they feel better about their completely voluntary decision. And as a result other kids who might actually want to stay in the zone they luve near might get bussed to wakefield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is also annoying is the N. Arlington mom who goes to the last SB meeting to bemoan the fact that her HS aged daughter doesn't have enough diversity in their lily white school. WTF? Seriously. Why do you want everyone else to be bussed in? You can always request a transfer to Wakefield. Why should tons of people be inconvenienced so you can feel less guilty about your choice.
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Oh yeah. The chutzpah of that woman wanting to see Arlington integrate its schools, when she has the the "choice" to send her kids to Wakefield--currently operating at 50% poverty. Heaven forbid APS look at demographics. That's not part of the boundary criteria. Oh wait, it is? Nevermind. There still must be something wrong with her. She should keep her mouth shut and just enjoy the latent racism of N. Arlington.

No. If she really gave a shit she wouldn't have moved up to the whitest area of arlington. Like they said at the meetings people can request transfers to wakefield. What she is proposing to do is to inconvenience tons of people by having the poorer kids bus all the way across town just so they feel better about their completely voluntary decision. And as a result other kids who might actually want to stay in the zone they luve near might get bussed to wakefield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People need to get their heads out of their asses and use their brains. If they don't take demographics into consideration, what exactly do they think is going to happen to WL in a couple of years? More and more people are going to try and shoehorn into whatever the new boundary is, especially if they increase the Wakefield FARMS rate. Hell, I bought for a home zoned Wakefield and have been totally fine with it, but I'll move in bounds for WL when the time comes, if Wakefield's demographics deteriorate.
We'll be right back where we started. It's a system wide problem, and has to be addressed as such.

Do you really think everyone will be successful at selling their homes in s. Arlington and moving to north? If thry could have they already would be here.

[Anonymous]

They need to accept that busing needs to happen.

They need to draw boundary lines vertically not horizontally thus fixing the diversity and too high of FARMS rate in any one school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to accept that busing needs to happen.

They need to draw boundary lines vertically not horizontally thus fixing the diversity and too high of FARMS rate in any one school.

+1 on redrawing the boundary lines. I stared at the map for a long time, though, trying to figure this out in a way that makes sense. The problem is that YT and WF are both on the western side of the county. So how do you draw those lines? They need to do some building rearrangements. I don't understand why TJ can't be turned into a high school that pulls 1/2 from N and 1/2 from S. The board needs to be brazen and bold on this if they really want to fix the problem. Big solutions are tough to sell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to accept that busing needs to happen.

They need to draw boundary lines vertically not horizontally thus fixing the diversity and too high of FARMS rate in any one school.

Who is they? Have you taken a look at the locations if the schools? Most of yorktown with the exception of a few planning units and the island are 1.5 miles from thst school. I am in WL. I do not think moving a lot of those kids away from that school makes sense. Now the island may make sense. But people are delusional if they think everyonr should be zipping across town in the name of diversity when their closer schools are less than 2 miles away from them. There are 5 other factors on there not just diversity. It was your choice to move where you did. Why should lots of other kids have to rearranged because you regret your decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is also annoying is the N. Arlington mom who goes to the last SB meeting to bemoan the fact that her HS aged daughter doesn't have enough diversity in their lily white school. WTF? Seriously. Why do you want everyone else to be bussed in? You can always request a transfer to Wakefield. Why should tons of people be inconvenienced so you can feel less guilty about your choice.
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Oh yeah. The chutzpah of that woman wanting to see Arlington integrate its schools, when she has the the "choice" to send her kids to Wakefield--currently operating at 50% poverty. Heaven forbid APS look at demographics. That's not part of the boundary criteria. Oh wait, it is? Nevermind. There still must be something wrong with her. She should keep her mouth shut and just enjoy the latent racism of N. Arlington.

No. If she really gave a shit she wouldn't have moved up to the whitest area of arlington. Like they said at the meetings people can request transfers to wakefield. What she is proposing to do is to inconvenience tons of people by having the poorer kids bus all the way across town just so they feel better about their completely voluntary decision. And as a result other kids who might actually want to stay in the zone they luve near might get bussed to wakefield.

Buckingham is 3 miles to Yorktown (15 minutes) up George Mason versus 2 miles to W-L (10 minutes) up Glebe/Quincy. Not much difference to the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People need to get their heads out of their asses and use their brains. If they don't take demographics into consideration, what exactly do they think is going to happen to WL in a couple of years? More and more people are going to try and shoehorn into whatever the new boundary is, especially if they increase the Wakefield FARMS rate. Hell, I bought for a home zoned Wakefield and have been totally fine with it, but I'll move in bounds for WL when the time comes, if Wakefield's demographics deteriorate.
We'll be right back where we started. It's a system wide problem, and has to be addressed as such.

Do you really think everyone will be successful at selling their homes in s. Arlington and moving to north? If thry could have they already would be here.

Yes, you ignorant snob, I do. If Wakefield becomes a no go school for every home buyer, you will also have new residents to Arlington not considering south Arlington and crowding into the North in even greater numbers. Use your brain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They need to accept that busing needs to happen.

They need to draw boundary lines vertically not horizontally thus fixing the diversity and too high of FARMS rate in any one school.

Who is they? Have you taken a look at the locations if the schools? Most of yorktown with the exception of a few planning units and the island are 1.5 miles from thst school. I am in WL. I do not think moving a lot of those kids away from that school makes sense. Now the island may make sense. But people are delusional if they think everyonr should be zipping across town in the name of diversity when their closer schools are less than 2 miles away from them. There are 5 other factors on there not just diversity. It was your choice to move where you did. Why should lots of other kids have to rearranged because you regret your decision.

+1,000,000

[Anonymous]

And ps- reading thread like this, with you whiny little North Arlington b*tches is why I haven't moved north.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People need to get their heads out of their asses and use their brains. If they don't take demographics into consideration, what exactly do they think is going to happen to WL in a couple of years? More and more people are going to try and shoehorn into whatever the new boundary is, especially if they increase the Wakefield FARMS rate. Hell, I bought for a home zoned Wakefield and have been totally fine with it, but I'll move in bounds for WL when the time comes, if Wakefield's demographics deteriorate.
We'll be right back where we started. It's a system wide problem, and has to be addressed as such.

Do you really think everyone will be successful at selling their homes in s. Arlington and moving to north? If thry could have they already would be here.

Yes, you ignorant snob, I do. If Wakefield becomes a no go school for every home buyer, you will also have new residents to Arlington not considering south Arlington and crowding into the North in even greater numbers. Use your brain.

THIS, FOR THE CHEAP SEATS.

And plus also, the county cannot afford to destabilize one of its three high schools, and tank the housing values of thousands of property owners zoned Wakefield. The county relies on the taxes, based on real estate assessments, to fund services to all parts of Arlington. If every home in south Arlington zoned Wakefield suddenly depreciates, the county will have less money for the services all residents enjoy. Good luck getting a fourth HS of any kind then. Bye, bye, additional 1300 seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And ps- reading thread like this, with you whiny little North Arlington b*tches is why I haven't moved north.

Yet you want your kids out of Wakefield...

Enjoy!