The demise of McKinley ES (APS)

[Anonymous]

They are just being selfish. I can’t believe they spent $ on signs. They are as bad as the petition people.

[Anonymous]

Seriously, can someone please explain what happens when a school like Reed or Fleet cannot accommodate trailers but gets filled beyond capacity? Schools are not allowed to increase class sizes beyond APS guidelines, so what gives?

--McKinley parent who is down with the Reed move but is now worried about kids having classes in the ample field space

[Anonymous]

They have SIGNS?! What do they say? “We are hoarding all the seats for our grandchildren”?

[Anonymous]

Fine. Leave McKinley and make Reed option. Let Westover fight it out in a death match.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, can someone please explain what happens when a school like Reed or Fleet cannot accommodate trailers but gets filled beyond capacity? Schools are not allowed to increase class sizes beyond APS guidelines, so what gives?

--McKinley parent who is down with the Reed move but is now worried about kids having classes in the ample field space

What happens is they have class sizes beyond the recommended cap and/or put classes into prep rooms that aren’t an adequate size for a classroom. This is why schools that cannot accommodate trailers cannot be filled to 100% capacity.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they say “Save McKinley. We are just worried sick about Reed. Make them option instead, please. For the children.”

[Anonymous]

The answer is: We are expecting to build and/or put additions on 3 schools. We will redistrict in 5 years. They only need to plan through 2025. Reed and Fleet will survive. If you don’t like it, tell the Arlington Dems and the developers to stop growth growth growth.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't the original draft plan for all this for Key to move to Nottingham because a good percentage of students from there can walk to Discovery and Tuckaho, The rest would of gone to Reed with some from Mckinley.

Nottingham parents found out about this and made noise, so then went on to explore other options...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't the original draft plan for all this for Key to move to Nottingham because a good percentage of students from there can walk to Discovery and Tuckaho, The rest would of gone to Reed with some from Mckinley.

Nottingham parents found out about this and made noise, so then went on to explore other options...

Ok so you’re just saving the Mckinley building but fine with splitting up the population right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, can someone please explain what happens when a school like Reed or Fleet cannot accommodate trailers but gets filled beyond capacity? Schools are not allowed to increase class sizes beyond APS guidelines, so what gives?

--McKinley parent who is down with the Reed move but is now worried about kids having classes in the ample field space

They put a trailer on the basketball court or whatever. Deal with this when boundaries come up. It wasn’t an issue with Fleet. It’s not an issue with Reed. The DH people fighting know better than to suggest Reed as option bc a larger percentage of their school is pro-Reed. They can’t win that fight and would make the school events pretty awkward for the next year and a half.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happening to have excess seats in your neighborhood a la Jamestown or Discovery is not hoarding. No one in those neighborhoods or Tuckahoe is saying they shouldn’t fill to capacity. Arguing against using empty seats (saying that you shouldn’t fill Reed) because you might need them later is hoarding. And that’s on Westover or whoever is pushing that argument from McKinley. Fill. All. The. Seats. Including Drew and Jamestown and everywhere in between.

I don’t think you understand how school capacity works in practice. Capacity numbers assume that every classroom is filled exactly to capacity, which is not how it works in real life. In real life, if you’re over about 94% capacity, there’s a good chance you’ll need trailers. That’s fine if your school can take trailers, but not if you’re at a school like Reed or Fleet that APS has determined cannot take trailers. The more sensible choice is to leave schools like Reed that can’t take trailers at no more than 93-94% capacity because they are effectively full at that point, and then push more students to schools like Tuckahoe and Nottingham that can take trailers.

-Nottingham parent who can deal with reality

Reed can't take trailers? On that big field? Why not?

[Anonymous]

Reed can take trailers. Ignore the posters grasping at straws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reed can take trailers. Ignore the posters grasping at straws.

Yeah it seems like a straw. Did APS ever say Reed can't take trailers? Or just desperate McK folks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't the original draft plan for all this for Key to move to Nottingham because a good percentage of students from there can walk to Discovery and Tuckaho, The rest would of gone to Reed with some from Mckinley.

Nottingham parents found out about this and made noise, so then went on to explore other options...

No.
and no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wasn't the original draft plan for all this for Key to move to Nottingham because a good percentage of students from there can walk to Discovery and Tuckaho, The rest would of gone to Reed with some from Mckinley.

Nottingham parents found out about this and made noise, so then went on to explore other options...

Ok so you’re just saving the Mckinley building but fine with splitting up the population right?

DP - it's one or the other. Even if McKinley stays as a neighborhood school, its boundaries are going to change and its population will be "split-up."