Tuckahoe by the numbers - how can it stay a neighborhood school?

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Anonymous wrote:What does that say for Key's location, since that study has it going up to 749. Right under 750!

I'm virtually certain they are going to move Key- and honestly I have not heard any real opposition.

I would imagine the 1/2 of the school which are currently neighborhood attendees would oppose it. But we have heard NOTHING from our PTA about Key moving, so how could we oppose it?

There is definitely a group out there, not currently at Key, who are asking for Key to swap with ASFS.

Who are they and why are they pushing for this? No need to be coy, it's an anonymous forum.

I don't think they are pushing for Key to go to ASFS, I think they are the Key neighbors who don't want immersion and want a neighborhood school.

no one at asfs wants to move. Who wants this? Parents without school age kids?

The parents with young kids in the neighborhood but zoned for Taylor. This isn’t news; it has been a complaint for years- I live nowhere near the neighborhood and even I know about it.

[Anonymous]

Tuckahoe's moral cohesion did beat out Nottingham. Nottingham being considered as option, Tuckahoe off the table.
https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/AXRUM47CA5E4/$file/Elementary%20Planning%20Power%20point%20041218.pdf
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Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe's moral cohesion did beat out Nottingham. Nottingham being considered as option, Tuckahoe off the table.
https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/AXRUM47CA5E4/$file/Elementary%20Planning%20Power%20point%20041218.pdf
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Wow they could end up moving both immersion programs. Maybe west to Carlin Springs & east to ASFS.

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Tuckahoe is off the table
Nottingham, McKinley and Discovery are all the table

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does that say for Key's location, since that study has it going up to 749. Right under 750!

I'm virtually certain they are going to move Key- and honestly I have not heard any real opposition.

I would imagine the 1/2 of the school which are currently neighborhood attendees would oppose it. But we have heard NOTHING from our PTA about Key moving, so how could we oppose it?

There is definitely a group out there, not currently at Key, who are asking for Key to swap with ASFS.

Who are they and why are they pushing for this? No need to be coy, it's an anonymous forum.

I don't think they are pushing for Key to go to ASFS, I think they are the Key neighbors who don't want immersion and want a neighborhood school.

no one at asfs wants to move. Who wants this? Parents without school age kids?

The parents with young kids in the neighborhood but zoned for Taylor. This isn’t news; it has been a complaint for years- I live nowhere near the neighborhood and even I know about it.

So looks like that site just switches from choice to immersion lottery only. Bummer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is off the table
Nottingham, McKinley and Discovery are all the table

We're in the Nottingham/Discovery overlap zone, if they make Nottingham an option school so we're zoned for Discovery but have the option school 1/4 mile away, I think that will do nice things for our home value.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is off the table
Nottingham, McKinley and Discovery are all the table

We're in the Nottingham/Discovery overlap zone, if they make Nottingham an option school so we're zoned for Discovery but have the option school 1/4 mile away, I think that will do nice things for our home value.

It will likely be expeditionary which most attracts folks fleeing poor performing schools (see the note of the families applying to multiple lotteries, who love speaking Spanish while playing with wooden blocks in the traditional manner).

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option!

Why anyone in north Arlington would care one way or another baffles me, but I live in south Arlington, where the differences between neighboring neighborhood schools and option schools can be very large.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option!

Why anyone in north Arlington would care one way or another baffles me, but I live in south Arlington, where the differences between neighboring neighborhood schools and option schools can be very large.

When the dust settles, the elementary schools, including options, will be even more economically segregated than now. It's going to be a really striking chart and I can't wait for arlnow to publish it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is off the table
Nottingham, McKinley and Discovery are all the table

We're in the Nottingham/Discovery overlap zone, if they make Nottingham an option school so we're zoned for Discovery but have the option school 1/4 mile away, I think that will do nice things for our home value.

It will likely be expeditionary which most attracts folks fleeing poor performing schools (see the note of the families applying to multiple lotteries, who love speaking Spanish while playing with wooden blocks in the traditional manner).

South Arlington families fleeing neighborhood schools will choose to go to any of the other option schools before Nottingham because it's the least convenient for them, whereas North Arlington families who previously had no interest in Campbell because they didn't want to go that far south will happily apply to Nottingham.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option!

Why anyone in north Arlington would care one way or another baffles me, but I live in south Arlington, where the differences between neighboring neighborhood schools and option schools can be very large.

When the dust settles, the elementary schools, including options, will be even more economically segregated than now. It's going to be a really striking chart and I can't wait for arlnow to publish it.

What do you think they should have done?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option!

Why anyone in north Arlington would care one way or another baffles me, but I live in south Arlington, where the differences between neighboring neighborhood schools and option schools can be very large.

When the dust settles, the elementary schools, including options, will be even more economically segregated than now. It's going to be a really striking chart and I can't wait for arlnow to publish it.

What do you think they should have done?

I think if the 1% wants options they can get their nannies to drive a little farther south, that's what I think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option!

Why anyone in north Arlington would care one way or another baffles me, but I live in south Arlington, where the differences between neighboring neighborhood schools and option schools can be very large.

When the dust settles, the elementary schools, including options, will be even more economically segregated than now. It's going to be a really striking chart and I can't wait for arlnow to publish it.

What do you think they should have done?

I think if the 1% wants options they can get their nannies to drive a little farther south, that's what I think.

But then what happens to all of the kids in South Arlington who want a neighborhood school or don't get into an option school, but there's a massive seat deficit because all of the option programs have been crammed in there? Are you going to make them get on buses north instead of letting them go to school in their own neighborhoods?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Nottingham is OK being an option!

Why anyone in north Arlington would care one way or another baffles me, but I live in south Arlington, where the differences between neighboring neighborhood schools and option schools can be very large.

When the dust settles, the elementary schools, including options, will be even more economically segregated than now. It's going to be a really striking chart and I can't wait for arlnow to publish it.

What do you think they should have done?

I think if the 1% wants options they can get their nannies to drive a little farther south, that's what I think.

But then what happens to all of the kids in South Arlington who want a neighborhood school or don't get into an option school, but there's a massive seat deficit because all of the option programs have been crammed in there? Are you going to make them get on buses north instead of letting them go to school in their own neighborhoods?

Oakridge and Henry are really the only neighborhood schools in SA that are overcrowded. A lot of the boundary process is not just because of fleet being built. It's because UMC families with children have concentrated themselves in just two south Arlington neighborhood elementaries they deem good enough. Moving Campbell from arlingtons poorest part to its richest won't help that reality.