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

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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!

And now S Arlington is the whiny little bitch crying unfair?

Please stop posting. You are making north Arlington look petty and stupid. I have friends that live near Arlington Ridge, and they will have no trouble buying a home north. They'll give up metro or whatever. I have friends all over Arlington, and while they may have to give up some positive aspects of their current house, they can all afford North Arlington. If people happily living in the Wakefield zone move north, we are all f#€ked.
This county can't afford a failing Wakefield. There are enough people willing to give it a shot now. That will change if the demographics slide toward majority Farm's students. How are you people not understanding this?

There is a lot of talk about how the county can't afford a failing Wakefield, how this won't be good for property values, etc.

How about the fact that a failing Wakefield means we are failing CHILDREN? WTF is wrong with you people? Basically 75% of the people on this thread could boil their position down to: "I got mine, so screw you."

Lady---I moved out of DC because I was zoned for Wilson. You can move out of Wakefield zone. I could of sat and cried and cried and whined---but I got mine by changing my location. If you bought in to an area knowing the school was Wakefield---that's on you.

Actually, my house is zoned for W-L; one of my kids is there now. Thanks for proving my point. Again, it would save us all some time if you just wrote, "I got mine, so screw you."

Yea..riiiiigt I bet it is zoned for W-L. If you are so upset --transfer your kid to Wakefield so you can give up "yours".

Again, with every post you further prove my point. You are concerned only with your own child's welfare and you don't give a damn about anyone else's, and you assume that the only reason anyone might want boundaries redrawn is because it benefits their own children. Well, you are wrong. And my sending my child alone to Wakefield does nothing to help Wakefield or W-L, so it's nice of you to offer up someone else's child on a platter but that's a meaningless gesture. We have been happy at W-L, but if we get rezoned, so be it. Unfortunately, given our location we are far more likely to get rezoned to Yorktown than to Wakefield. If that means I get to spend more time with people like you, perhaps we will then take the opportunity to go to transfer to Wakefield instead.

You wouldn't be alone. Plenty of families in north Arlington have transferred to Wakefield. Of course that might not be an option with all of the crowding on the horizon.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez. You n Arlington posters are really too much. Here is what you aren't getting...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS.

How are you not understanding this? We are fine with Wakefield as it is. We like it. Our kids are getting a good education and getting into top colleges. We don't need you guys. The sfh neighborhood's in south Arlington are plenty affluent.
BUT.
We can't take anymore poor kids. Sorry, we're full. You all voted for this wonderful county board and their altruistic policies. Well, now you get to share in the wealth ... of ... lack of wealth. It's super vibrant. You will love it.
I did buy in south Arlington, and I am fine with Wakefield, but the school can't handle more poverty. It's maxed out. The west Pike should stay put and eventually be moved to Yorktown.

NP. But you do need us guys. In order for you to transfer poor kids to Yorktown you need to move in other more affluent kids from WL. How are YOU not understanding this?

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Anonymous wrote:All of this bickering aside, I think APS really screwed up by not putting the IB program at Wakefield or creating some other kind of shiny object to draw people to it, something more universally appealing than just the extension of the immersion program. The one thing I know about APS parents is that if there is a program that is SPECIAL or EXCLUSIVE or COVETED that starts small, stays small, is self-selective, and has great results (test scores), it will be the HOTTEST thing in town. A program like this placed at Wakefield could have balanced the schools out on its own.

The IB program draw didn't work in FCPS. Mount Vernon etc. Ugliness of South Lakes boundary change.

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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!

And now S Arlington is the whiny little bitch crying unfair?

Please stop posting. You are making north Arlington look petty and stupid. I have friends that live near Arlington Ridge, and they will have no trouble buying a home north. They'll give up metro or whatever. I have friends all over Arlington, and while they may have to give up some positive aspects of their current house, they can all afford North Arlington. If people happily living in the Wakefield zone move north, we are all f#€ked.
This county can't afford a failing Wakefield. There are enough people willing to give it a shot now. That will change if the demographics slide toward majority Farm's students. How are you people not understanding this?

There is a lot of talk about how the county can't afford a failing Wakefield, how this won't be good for property values, etc.

How about the fact that a failing Wakefield means we are failing CHILDREN? WTF is wrong with you people? Basically 75% of the people on this thread could boil their position down to: "I got mine, so screw you."

Lady---I moved out of DC because I was zoned for Wilson. You can move out of Wakefield zone. I could of sat and cried and cried and whined---but I got mine by changing my location. If you bought in to an area knowing the school was Wakefield---that's on you.

Actually, my house is zoned for W-L; one of my kids is there now. Thanks for proving my point. Again, it would save us all some time if you just wrote, "I got mine, so screw you."

Yea..riiiiigt I bet it is zoned for W-L. If you are so upset --transfer your kid to Wakefield so you can give up "yours".

Again, with every post you further prove my point. You are concerned only with your own child's welfare and you don't give a damn about anyone else's, and you assume that the only reason anyone might want boundaries redrawn is because it benefits their own children. Well, you are wrong. And my sending my child alone to Wakefield does nothing to help Wakefield or W-L, so it's nice of you to offer up someone else's child on a platter but that's a meaningless gesture. We have been happy at W-L, but if we get rezoned, so be it. Unfortunately, given our location we are far more likely to get rezoned to Yorktown than to Wakefield. If that means I get to spend more time with people like you, perhaps we will then take the opportunity to go to transfer to Wakefield instead.

I'm just calling a hypocrite when I see one. You said yourself you will never get zoned to Wakefield. It's really cavalier to be "I care so much about everyone else's children when there is no plan to ever send your own to Wakefield". You are so sweet and nice to think of them. I don't buy for a chance, that you wouldn't be pounding on a school board member's door if you got news that you were in a Wakefield planning zone---but, you got 'yours' and bought so that wouldn't happen. Yet--you come on here and chastise those just like you.

I actually prefer the transparent posters. The ones, you know, that say 'hey--I bought near a HS so my kids could walk to it and I'm pissed they are going to have a 40 min bus ride now".

Lady---you belong at YHS. You can hang out with the lady bemoaning at the last hearing that she was so, so, so, so upset that her daughter's HS--YHS had no diversity. False pretense. No way does she want her daughter bussed to Wakefield---but hey bus somebody else's kid over, right??

Quit being such a phony, hypocrite.

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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!

And now S Arlington is the whiny little bitch crying unfair?

Please stop posting. You are making north Arlington look petty and stupid. I have friends that live near Arlington Ridge, and they will have no trouble buying a home north. They'll give up metro or whatever. I have friends all over Arlington, and while they may have to give up some positive aspects of their current house, they can all afford North Arlington. If people happily living in the Wakefield zone move north, we are all f#€ked.
This county can't afford a failing Wakefield. There are enough people willing to give it a shot now. That will change if the demographics slide toward majority Farm's students. How are you people not understanding this?

There is a lot of talk about how the county can't afford a failing Wakefield, how this won't be good for property values, etc.

How about the fact that a failing Wakefield means we are failing CHILDREN? WTF is wrong with you people? Basically 75% of the people on this thread could boil their position down to: "I got mine, so screw you."

Lady---I moved out of DC because I was zoned for Wilson. You can move out of Wakefield zone. I could of sat and cried and cried and whined---but I got mine by changing my location. If you bought in to an area knowing the school was Wakefield---that's on you.

Actually, my house is zoned for W-L; one of my kids is there now. Thanks for proving my point. Again, it would save us all some time if you just wrote, "I got mine, so screw you."

Yea..riiiiigt I bet it is zoned for W-L. If you are so upset --transfer your kid to Wakefield so you can give up "yours".

Again, with every post you further prove my point. You are concerned only with your own child's welfare and you don't give a damn about anyone else's, and you assume that the only reason anyone might want boundaries redrawn is because it benefits their own children. Well, you are wrong. And my sending my child alone to Wakefield does nothing to help Wakefield or W-L, so it's nice of you to offer up someone else's child on a platter but that's a meaningless gesture. We have been happy at W-L, but if we get rezoned, so be it. Unfortunately, given our location we are far more likely to get rezoned to Yorktown than to Wakefield. If that means I get to spend more time with people like you, perhaps we will then take the opportunity to go to transfer to Wakefield instead.

I'm just calling a hypocrite when I see one. You said yourself you will never get zoned to Wakefield. It's really cavalier to be "I care so much about everyone else's children when there is no plan to ever send your own to Wakefield". You are so sweet and nice to think of them. I don't buy for a chance, that you wouldn't be pounding on a school board member's door if you got news that you were in a Wakefield planning zone---but, you got 'yours' and bought so that wouldn't happen. Yet--you come on here and chastise those just like you.

I actually prefer the transparent posters. The ones, you know, that say 'hey--I bought near a HS so my kids could walk to it and I'm pissed they are going to have a 40 min bus ride now".

Lady---you belong at YHS. You can hang out with the lady bemoaning at the last hearing that she was so, so, so, so upset that her daughter's HS--YHS had no diversity. False pretense. No way does she want her daughter bussed to Wakefield---but hey bus somebody else's kid over, right??

Quit being such a phony, hypocrite.

Phony bitch is chomping at the bit to get zoned to YHS for white kids and property values---but she likes to pretend she's doing it for altruistic reasons (oh--I care so much about everyone else's kids--yea right). It's better than having the neighbors she's making now sit on a bus for 40 min each way think she's self-centered and afraid to send her kids to WL with some diversity.

Just ignore her.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez. You n Arlington posters are really too much. Here is what you aren't getting...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS.

How are you not understanding this? We are fine with Wakefield as it is. We like it. Our kids are getting a good education and getting into top colleges. We don't need you guys. The sfh neighborhood's in south Arlington are plenty affluent.
BUT.
We can't take anymore poor kids. Sorry, we're full. You all voted for this wonderful county board and their altruistic policies. Well, now you get to share in the wealth ... of ... lack of wealth. It's super vibrant. You will love it.
I did buy in south Arlington, and I am fine with Wakefield, but the school can't handle more poverty. It's maxed out. The west Pike should stay put and eventually be moved to Yorktown.

NP. But you do need us guys. In order for you to transfer poor kids to Yorktown you need to move in other more affluent kids from WL. How are YOU not understanding this?

Somebody's gotta shift sweetheart. You all crowded into the same neighborhoods. Them's the breaks.

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I agree with all the posters above who point out that there are a lot of hypocrites on this thread. Either they aren't ever going to be at risk for sending their own kids to Wakefield and decry the lack of diversity or the ones already in s. arlington saying it's not an imposition to have more affluent WL kids bussed over to a crappier school so their kids don't have more poor kids at Wakefield.

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I'm starting to feel sorry for the school board. Never thought that would happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez. You n Arlington posters are really too much. Here is what you aren't getting...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS.

How are you not understanding this? We are fine with Wakefield as it is. We like it. Our kids are getting a good education and getting into top colleges. We don't need you guys. The sfh neighborhood's in south Arlington are plenty affluent.
BUT.
We can't take anymore poor kids. Sorry, we're full. You all voted for this wonderful county board and their altruistic policies. Well, now you get to share in the wealth ... of ... lack of wealth. It's super vibrant. You will love it.
I did buy in south Arlington, and I am fine with Wakefield, but the school can't handle more poverty. It's maxed out. The west Pike should stay put and eventually be moved to Yorktown.

NP. But you do need us guys. In order for you to transfer poor kids to Yorktown you need to move in other more affluent kids from WL. How are YOU not understanding this?

Somebody's gotta shift sweetheart. You all crowded into the same neighborhoods. Them's the breaks.

Sorry to disappoint you but my planning unit either remains in WL or is moved to Yorktown. If we move to Yorktown we will deal.

And applying the same logic you just said about somebody having to shift. all those planning units with the poor kids are less than a mile from Wakefield, so they could easily be moved to your school. Them's the breaks.

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Guys, guys, this is the equivalent of shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. Not too long from now there won't be any seats for over a thousand kids. I have no faith in the SB's CIP that magically promises 1300 seats in 2022. We're all going to be screwed when that happens, so let's try to work together.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez. You n Arlington posters are really too much. Here is what you aren't getting...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS.

How are you not understanding this? We are fine with Wakefield as it is. We like it. Our kids are getting a good education and getting into top colleges. We don't need you guys. The sfh neighborhood's in south Arlington are plenty affluent.
BUT.
We can't take anymore poor kids. Sorry, we're full. You all voted for this wonderful county board and their altruistic policies. Well, now you get to share in the wealth ... of ... lack of wealth. It's super vibrant. You will love it.
I did buy in south Arlington, and I am fine with Wakefield, but the school can't handle more poverty. It's maxed out. The west Pike should stay put and eventually be moved to Yorktown.

NP. But you do need us guys. In order for you to transfer poor kids to Yorktown you need to move in other more affluent kids from WL. How are YOU not understanding this?

Somebody's gotta shift sweetheart. You all crowded into the same neighborhoods. Them's the breaks.

Sorry to disappoint you but my planning unit either remains in WL or is moved to Yorktown. If we move to Yorktown we will deal.

And applying the same logic you just said about somebody having to shift. all those planning units with the poor kids are less than a mile from Wakefield, so they could easily be moved to your school. Them's the breaks.

My kids will (should remain) walkers to WL. I feel much more strongly than you.

Keep your teenagers close after school. Have the home kids hang out at. All proven methods to keep them out of trouble.

Now they will be hanging out across town after school. Lee Harrison crowd is drinkers and druggies.

HS kids avoid the bus like the plague. Now you are taking kids that walk everywhere behind the wheel too soon.

Many WL walkers (like NYers) put off getting their drivers license until graduation because they don't need a car. They can walk to everything and home from sports at WL.

All considerations (and --SES and racial diversity) when we decided on WL as our home HS.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with all the posters above who point out that there are a lot of hypocrites on this thread. Either they aren't ever going to be at risk for sending their own kids to Wakefield and decry the lack of diversity or the ones already in s. arlington saying it's not an imposition to have more affluent WL kids bussed over to a crappier school so their kids don't have more poor kids at Wakefield.

Um, the educational consequences of those two scenarios are pretty different. You can say making a school more diverse (more "reflective of the population of the county") is a good thing to do, if possible. But the school board is committing malpractice if they take a high-poverty school and make it even more worse off.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez. You n Arlington posters are really too much. Here is what you aren't getting...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS.

How are you not understanding this? We are fine with Wakefield as it is. We like it. Our kids are getting a good education and getting into top colleges. We don't need you guys. The sfh neighborhood's in south Arlington are plenty affluent.
BUT.
We can't take anymore poor kids. Sorry, we're full. You all voted for this wonderful county board and their altruistic policies. Well, now you get to share in the wealth ... of ... lack of wealth. It's super vibrant. You will love it.
I did buy in south Arlington, and I am fine with Wakefield, but the school can't handle more poverty. It's maxed out. The west Pike should stay put and eventually be moved to Yorktown.

NP. But you do need us guys. In order for you to transfer poor kids to Yorktown you need to move in other more affluent kids from WL. How are YOU not understanding this?

Somebody's gotta shift sweetheart. You all crowded into the same neighborhoods. Them's the breaks.

Sorry to disappoint you but my planning unit either remains in WL or is moved to Yorktown. If we move to Yorktown we will deal.

And applying the same logic you just said about somebody having to shift. all those planning units with the poor kids are less than a mile from Wakefield, so they could easily be moved to your school. Them's the breaks.

Nope. I'm in contact with the Post, the Times, and the Southern Poverty Law center. Sorry to disappoint you, but your position isn't going to fly. This is going to get ugly, but so be it. I know you guys aren't used to south Arlington pushing back. Times have changed.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeez. You n Arlington posters are really too much. Here is what you aren't getting...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS.

How are you not understanding this? We are fine with Wakefield as it is. We like it. Our kids are getting a good education and getting into top colleges. We don't need you guys. The sfh neighborhood's in south Arlington are plenty affluent.
BUT.
We can't take anymore poor kids. Sorry, we're full. You all voted for this wonderful county board and their altruistic policies. Well, now you get to share in the wealth ... of ... lack of wealth. It's super vibrant. You will love it.
I did buy in south Arlington, and I am fine with Wakefield, but the school can't handle more poverty. It's maxed out. The west Pike should stay put and eventually be moved to Yorktown.

NP. But you do need us guys. In order for you to transfer poor kids to Yorktown you need to move in other more affluent kids from WL. How are YOU not understanding this?

Somebody's gotta shift sweetheart. You all crowded into the same neighborhoods. Them's the breaks.

Sorry to disappoint you but my planning unit either remains in WL or is moved to Yorktown. If we move to Yorktown we will deal.

And applying the same logic you just said about somebody having to shift. all those planning units with the poor kids are less than a mile from Wakefield, so they could easily be moved to your school. Them's the breaks.

My kids will (should remain) walkers to WL. I feel much more strongly than you.

Keep your teenagers close after school. Have the home kids hang out at. All proven methods to keep them out of trouble.

Now they will be hanging out across town after school. Lee Harrison crowd is drinkers and druggies.

HS kids avoid the bus like the plague. Now you are taking kids that walk everywhere behind the wheel too soon.

Many WL walkers (like NYers) put off getting their drivers license until graduation because they don't need a car. They can walk to everything and home from sports at WL.

All considerations (and --SES and racial diversity) when we decided on WL as our home HS.

This is a really nasty, and untrue, rumor to be spreading. Are you really an adult? If so you are an extraordinarily ill informed and predjudiced one.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeez. You n Arlington posters are really too much. Here is what you aren't getting...

WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS.

How are you not understanding this? We are fine with Wakefield as it is. We like it. Our kids are getting a good education and getting into top colleges. We don't need you guys. The sfh neighborhood's in south Arlington are plenty affluent.
BUT.
We can't take anymore poor kids. Sorry, we're full. You all voted for this wonderful county board and their altruistic policies. Well, now you get to share in the wealth ... of ... lack of wealth. It's super vibrant. You will love it.
I did buy in south Arlington, and I am fine with Wakefield, but the school can't handle more poverty. It's maxed out. The west Pike should stay put and eventually be moved to Yorktown.

NP. But you do need us guys. In order for you to transfer poor kids to Yorktown you need to move in other more affluent kids from WL. How are YOU not understanding this?

Somebody's gotta shift sweetheart. You all crowded into the same neighborhoods. Them's the breaks.

Sorry to disappoint you but my planning unit either remains in WL or is moved to Yorktown. If we move to Yorktown we will deal.

And applying the same logic you just said about somebody having to shift. all those planning units with the poor kids are less than a mile from Wakefield, so they could easily be moved to your school. Them's the breaks.

Nope. I'm in contact with the Post, the Times, and the Southern Poverty Law center. Sorry to disappoint you, but your position isn't going to fly. This is going to get ugly, but so be it. I know you guys aren't used to south Arlington pushing back. Times have changed.