APS Elementary Location Working Group 4/12

[Anonymous]

New schedule:
Schedule:

April 12 – School Board Work Session
April 12 – Staff will post analysis
April 16-21 – Community Input
Attend a Staff Office Hour session (Spanish-speaking staff available)
Monday, April 16: 7-8:30 p.m. in Wakefield H.S. cafeteria
Friday, April 20: 7:30-9 a.m. at the Education Center, Room 101
Saturday, April 21: 9:30-11 a.m. in Kenmore M.S. cafeteria
April 30 – Staff will publish draft recommendations on neighborhood and option school sites.
April 30 – May 10 – Online questionnaire on draft recommendations for school locations.
May 9 – Community Meeting, Syphax Education Center 2110 Washington Blvd. Room 256-258 , 7 p.m.
May 17 – The Superintendent will present a recommendation to the School Board as an information item.
June 21 – The School Board will take action on the proposals presented. This decision may designate sites as either neighborhood or option schools. If any option schools are to be moved, however, the decision on June 21 will not specify which option schools will be located at

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Essentially you are abolishing an entire school for no good reason." Welcome to the world of the NW Quadrant. It is outrageous to abolish any neighborhood school for this half baked effort.

Lol. Like the nw doesn't run the show in this county. Get some perspective you poor put upon 1%er.

If NW ran the show, do you think the staff would be gunning so hard to move an option school up there that they tripped all over themselves and couldn’t pick up on the obvious errors re Nottingham? That happened because the staff only cared about getting Nottingham’s name up there and the rationale was secondary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New schedule:
Schedule:

April 12 – School Board Work Session
April 12 – Staff will post analysis
April 16-21 – Community Input
Attend a Staff Office Hour session (Spanish-speaking staff available)
Monday, April 16: 7-8:30 p.m. in Wakefield H.S. cafeteria
Friday, April 20: 7:30-9 a.m. at the Education Center, Room 101
Saturday, April 21: 9:30-11 a.m. in Kenmore M.S. cafeteria
April 30 – Staff will publish draft recommendations on neighborhood and option school sites.
April 30 – May 10 – Online questionnaire on draft recommendations for school locations.
May 9 – Community Meeting, Syphax Education Center 2110 Washington Blvd. Room 256-258 , 7 p.m.
May 17 – The Superintendent will present a recommendation to the School Board as an information item.
June 21 – The School Board will take action on the proposals presented. This decision may designate sites as either neighborhood or option schools. If any option schools are to be moved, however, the decision on June 21 will not specify which option schools will be located at

That’s the old schedule, here’s the updated one: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Handout_ES-Planning-Initiative_FINAL-ENGLISH-Updated-April-19.pdf

The process isn’t going to be wrapped up until November now, not June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The case for not moving Key is compelling. First, asfs doesn’t have the capacity. Second, there’s no public transportation reasonably close to asfs. There's really nothing else to say.

1. ASFS doesn’t have space for the neighborhood with additional kids from new walk zone, population growth, and kids who don’t win Key lottery from Key zone. As a lottery only option school Immersion can control its population.

2. People at Key didn’t report using public transportation to get to or from school in the APS Go survey. Half a percent! That’s not a dealbreaker https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Francis_Scott_Key_v2.pdf

[Anonymous]

Goldstein didn’t come to tonight’s meeting?

[Anonymous]

Wow, NVD is taking the staff to task. Go Nancy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, NVD is taking the staff to task. Go Nancy!

Should clarify to not create drama, it was specifically about them raising the idea in the CIP update of pulling high school seats from the Ed Center out of the blue. But it was telling them more generally that it is not acceptable to surprise the community with this kind of stuff, it’s not okay to propose changes without sufficient community involvement, it’s not okay to be anything less than fully transparent, and that when they do those kinds of things they introduce a lot of distrust and instability into a time when we’re already facing a lot of instabilit and uncertainty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, NVD is taking the staff to task. Go Nancy!

Should clarify to not create drama, it was specifically about them raising the idea in the CIP update of pulling high school seats from the Ed Center out of the blue. But it was telling them more generally that it is not acceptable to surprise the community with this kind of stuff, it’s not okay to propose changes without sufficient community involvement, it’s not okay to be anything less than fully transparent, and that when they do those kinds of things they introduce a lot of distrust and instability into a time when we’re already facing a lot of instabilit and uncertainty.

And she’s having none of Kanninen’s suggestion that maybe we don’t need to create more secondary seats.

[Anonymous]

The issue of a key/asfs swap is so loaded with issues of classism, fear, and misunderstandings that people need to take a deep breath and think about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue of a key/asfs swap is so loaded with issues of classism, fear, and misunderstandings that people need to take a deep breath and think about it.

Could you expand on that?

[Anonymous]

Isn’t ASFS all about protecting their big expensive lab? I mean they act like they own “science” or something.

[Anonymous]

How can this be addressed without knowing what the boundary for the new ASF will be? I apologize in advance if that’s already known. I can’t navigate the apsva website because it looks like it’s stuck in 1999.

[Anonymous]

If you watched tonight’s board meeting, it seems clear that ASFS wants to stay put. So who exactly are the mischief makers trying to paint a picture of ASFS wanting a swap with Key? Something is really off about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you watched tonight’s board meeting, it seems clear that ASFS wants to stay put. So who exactly are the mischief makers trying to paint a picture of ASFS wanting a swap with Key? Something is really off about this.

Fair question, as I, too, crave more background and facts about this, but I’m not sure it’s science-based to say that a few folks in t shirts represent the views of an entire school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you watched tonight’s board meeting, it seems clear that ASFS wants to stay put. So who exactly are the mischief makers trying to paint a picture of ASFS wanting a swap with Key? Something is really off about this.

+1

There are a mix of opinions but the most vocal contingent at ASFS is the group trying to NOT swap. The earlier comments about ASFS “pushing” for a swap are incorrect.