APS - how to advocate for fourth high school now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a 4k student school, stop being dramatic.

Fuck off Nancy. We'll be sure to kick your raggedy ass out next go around.

Doesn't change the fact that it's not a 4k student HS. Or does fact not mean anything anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a 4k student school, stop being dramatic.

Fuck off Nancy. We'll be sure to kick your raggedy ass out next go around.

Doesn't change the fact that it's not a 4k student HS. Or does fact not mean anything anymore?

4000 students sharing the same fields, campus, library and cafeteria. Oh, but different. Schools within a school and all that. Gotcha.

Can you share some of your morning wine; I need some.

[Anonymous]

WL's current official "capacity" is 2200. Adding 1300 to that gets you to 3500 on day 1. APS has acknowledged that 1300 is only the projected number of seats needed in 2022 and that capacity needs at the HS level continue to go up each year after that. APS's predictions also assume 800 kids at Arlington Tech (despite that school only having "capacity" for 600 - and despite APS only planning to spend $11 million to increase that school's size from it's current 100 students to 800). In other words, if they are off in their projections for AT, many of those kids will still be at their home schools.

So yes, WL will very shortly be a 4000 seat school.

[Anonymous]

As a parent of a toddler zoned for Wakefield but WL is shorter easier distance what concerns me is the inability to estimate correctly. The SB is going to be in for a big surprise come 2919/2020/2021 when kids show up to register for kindergarten at Patrick Henry. There are tons of kids and babies in my neighborhood and they are not planning to move. They are not brown for those that care. These kids will all need elementary, middle and high school seats and busing! Arlington has a real problem and it's going to come to a head before they are expecting capacity issues.

[Anonymous]

And for those who think this won't be their problem, realize that if WL is 160% to 180% the size of each of the other 2 high schools, your child may get rezoned to WL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a toddler zoned for Wakefield but WL is shorter easier distance what concerns me is the inability to estimate correctly. The SB is going to be in for a big surprise come 2919/2020/2021 when kids show up to register for kindergarten at Patrick Henry. There are tons of kids and babies in my neighborhood and they are not planning to move. They are not brown for those that care. These kids will all need elementary, middle and high school seats and busing! Arlington has a real problem and it's going to come to a head before they are expecting capacity issues.

It's m not sure the Arlington school board will have a problem. Rather, the people faced with the overcrowding will have the problem. Just remember, it's an ironclad rule: the wealthiest parts of n Arlington always win. That's the baseline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know.
I think because it is such a well educated county, most people assume things will be handled properly. Everyone is busy sitting in traffic and shuttling kids to and fro.
I think most just assume the county gov't will do the obvious thing. Yet it is proven time and again, that isn't necessarily how is plays out.
Personally I think it tracks back to the ACDC. They set the agenda and I think most homeowners would be surprised at those priorities. Special interests really run the table.

I agree. But, I used to turn red in the face telling these people that you CAN'T trust them. I would educate them and tell them to go to the local elections and I'm a full-time busy working mom with kids in multiple travel sports and I still could stay informed.

We are where we are because of the blind trust everyone put in these elected officials. It's ignorant. Democracy only works when those with the vote engage.

Now that we have reached full-blown crisis level--constituents are slowly waking up. It's something many of us have known for years.

In fact, when my 6th grader was in Kindergartner--we were arguing with the SB over the over-crowding issues. One SB member was asleep during the meeting--seriously!

They said they did not foresee the crowding--which we challenged. They also said it would taper off soon. Well--here we are 7 years later and density is worse and worse with more children per sq footage than ever before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a 4k student school, stop being dramatic.

Fuck off Nancy. We'll be sure to kick your raggedy ass out next go around.

Doesn't change the fact that it's not a 4k student HS. Or does fact not mean anything anymore?

4000 students sharing the same fields, campus, library and cafeteria. Oh, but different. Schools within a school and all that. Gotcha.

Can you share some of your morning wine; I need some.

That's not the plan. You're spreading false information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a 4k student school, stop being dramatic.

Fuck off Nancy. We'll be sure to kick your raggedy ass out next go around.

Doesn't change the fact that it's not a 4k student HS. Or does fact not mean anything anymore?

4000 students sharing the same fields, campus, library and cafeteria. Oh, but different. Schools within a school and all that. Gotcha.

Can you share some of your morning wine; I need some.

That's not the plan. You're spreading false information.

APS' own projections for W-L without any new buildings have its population at 2900. So add 1300 and what do you get?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a 4k student school, stop being dramatic.

Fuck off Nancy. We'll be sure to kick your raggedy ass out next go around.

Doesn't change the fact that it's not a 4k student HS. Or does fact not mean anything anymore?

4000 students sharing the same fields, campus, library and cafeteria. Oh, but different. Schools within a school and all that. Gotcha.

Can you share some of your morning wine; I need some.

That's not the plan. You're spreading false information.

APS' own projections for W-L without any new buildings have its population at 2900. So add 1300 and what do you get?

2900. Why do you insist to add 1300 to WL when no one is even hinting at expanding its capacity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a 4k student school, stop being dramatic.

Fuck off Nancy. We'll be sure to kick your raggedy ass out next go around.

Doesn't change the fact that it's not a 4k student HS. Or does fact not mean anything anymore?

4000 students sharing the same fields, campus, library and cafeteria. Oh, but different. Schools within a school and all that. Gotcha.

Can you share some of your morning wine; I need some.

That's not the plan. You're spreading false information.

APS' own projections for W-L without any new buildings have its population at 2900. So add 1300 and what do you get?

2900. Why do you insist to add 1300 to WL when no one is even hinting at expanding its capacity?

OP here - I'm considering W-L to be 4000 kids because the 1300 at the Ed Center will be using W-L's cafeteria, gym, pool, and other shared amenities. In addition, I can't imagine that at least some of them wouldn't join W-L extracurriculars, which just makes it harder and harder to join and make a mark at any of them (no matter how you cut it, there is only one EIC of the newspaper or one romantic lead in the musical, for example). It like, with such a big school, any kid who isn't at the absolute top would get completely lost in the shuffle and have a very hard time building a community.

[Anonymous]

I guess PP hasn't visited the APS engage website. The proposal states, as Option 1: "Washington-Lee's capacity increases" - School Board members have made it clear that a 9th grade academy would be for WL zoned 9th graders only. And as the other PP noted, all of the 1300 new students would share the interior common spaces and outside field space with all of the other WL students.

The WL campus is 22 acres. Both Wakefield and Kenmore are 32 acres. It doesn't make sense to make WL so much larger than all the other high schools in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Well, ya'll can sell you north Arlington shit shack and buy a much nicer house zoned to Wakefield. There's always that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, ya'll can sell you north Arlington shit shack and buy a much nicer house zoned to Wakefield. There's always that.

Or you can buy a house zoned for Yorktown, but then you'll have to deal with those parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess PP hasn't visited the APS engage website. The proposal states, as Option 1: "Washington-Lee's capacity increases" - School Board members have made it clear that a 9th grade academy would be for WL zoned 9th graders only. And as the other PP noted, all of the 1300 new students would share the interior common spaces and outside field space with all of the other WL students.

The WL campus is 22 acres. Both Wakefield and Kenmore are 32 acres. It doesn't make sense to make WL so much larger than all the other high schools in Arlington.

Who projected 1,300 9th graders from WL zone?