ACPS Redistricting Letters

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Admin transfers used to have a legacy to them, loosely. I'm hearing that legacy is waning. But, that conflicts with reports I've personally heard from several people that admin transfers will be issued freely to these families when the time comes. Can you blame them? Who's going to want to switch schools after 5 or 6 years? At that point you're so heavily involved.

Yup. That's all done. Only school board members get admin transfers now, for their own kids. The school board used to have a policy that said:

If approved, administrative transfers remain in place for the number of years spanned by that school, provided:
• The child demonstrates good attendance and punctuality in accordance with Policy JED.
• The child demonstrates appropriate behavior in school.

That policy is still on the books but it no longer means anything. Schools are looking for excuses to transfer out anyone with an AT.

Uhhh, whas that about SB members getting transfers the taxpaying public doesn't?

I'm gonna need a source for that because that shit is crooked as all get out. Oh, and it's also very FOIA-ABLE. The city even has an online form to facilitate the process. Under 250 pages is free.

We might just have stumbled upon some front page news folks.

[Anonymous]

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Speaking of naivety, only an idiot would believe ACPS would shit upon the families most active in their kid's education (eg parents of admin transfers)

What are you talking about? At the better-regarded ACPS schools, the parents of kids with admin transfers are no more active in their kids' education than the affluent parents who actually live in the attendance zone.

My point is that the population of kids described in the OP- kids under transfers, but now rezoned- account, for something infinitesimally small. I know that at my kid's school there are seven in the entire school. Seven

Is that an amount that should make entire families uproot lives and start over somewhere else? Not in most people's opinion.

Even at the smallest schools in the system that number is smaller than the fluctuation in student population one would experience just through home sales in the attendance zone.

That's yet another way the SB was short sighted. They made decisions that really don't alter the system at all but have huge impacts on families. They should have originally fully grandfathered everyone currently enrolled. Worst case scenario would be 20-30 kids attending the 'wrong' school for 5 years. Here we are year three into the redistricting process and they don't even have the new school yet. But GD it, we gotta get rid of those seven kids!!!

Imbecilic.

I'd bet they delay implementation yet another year if I had to guess.

This has nothing to do with actual school assignments. This is the school board trying to scare the population (overcrowding! safety! elimination of transfers!) into supporting their ridiculous expansion plan. And it's working.

Wait until they realize how many of the 'wealthy, white kids' theyre trying to force into JH (to finally get accreditation, off their backs) have an MD in the family who is more than happy to diagnose the kid with a disorder that JH isn't capable of dealing with. Viola! Instant transfer.

The SB would do better remembering who they are (public servants with shitty diplomas from VT) and stop fighting the taxpayers with JD/MD degrees from Stanford. They'll never 'beat' them. And theyre wasting all of our dollars in an ego tug of war.

I didn't think anyone could be so obnoxiously entitled and elitest, but them you chimed in. Congratulations! I will continue to read these responses with responses schadenfreude

[Anonymous]

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I didn't think anyone could be so obnoxiously entitled and elitest, but then you chimed in. Congratulations! I will continue to read these responses with unapologetic schadenfreude

Damn autocorrect...fixed above

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admin transfers used to have a legacy to them, loosely. I'm hearing that legacy is waning. But, that conflicts with reports I've personally heard from several people that admin transfers will be issued freely to these families when the time comes. Can you blame them? Who's going to want to switch schools after 5 or 6 years? At that point you're so heavily involved.

Yup. That's all done. Only school board members get admin transfers now, for their own kids. The school board used to have a policy that said:

If approved, administrative transfers remain in place for the number of years spanned by that school, provided:
• The child demonstrates good attendance and punctuality in accordance with Policy JED.
• The child demonstrates appropriate behavior in school.

That policy is still on the books but it no longer means anything. Schools are looking for excuses to transfer out anyone with an AT.

Uhhh, whas that about SB members getting transfers the taxpaying public doesn't?

I'm gonna need a source for that because that shit is crooked as all get out. Oh, and it's also very FOIA-ABLE. The city even has an online form to facilitate the process. Under 250 pages is free.

We might just have stumbled upon some front page news folks.

Check out transfers into LC from MVCS.

[Anonymous]

All Admin transfers w/o an older sibling must leave their current school at the end of this year. Programmatic transfers are, inexplicably, permitted to stay.


This is simply not true, you have misunderstood the letter or misunderstand what an administrative transfer is/means. See this link: https://www.acps.k12.va.us/cms/lib/VA01918616/Cent...hool-board-policies/jce-r.pdf. If the child has a previously-approved admin transfer, they will not be required to move. This conforms with the information that we got in the mail from my child's school (Maury).


Wrong. Absolutely incorrect.


Let's see. One person quoted an actual source. I've gotten a letter from school to that effect. But I am sure that you posting "wrong. Absolutely incorrect" is more convincing. Maybe "fake news" would have been even better, but nice try.


The policy you noted is correct. You have the right one. And that’s what is supposed to happen. But it hasn’t. Numerous families with administrative transfers are being moved.

No offense, but I haven't heard anything about that at our school, read about it any legitimate news source, or seen anything about it on our school listserv, or oldtown moms, delray moms, or any of the other Alexandria listservs where people actually sign in with usernames. If it turns out to be true, great for you for knowing about it first. But given what has been going on lately, until I see something from a legitimate, identified source, I'm going to hold off on giving it any credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admin transfers used to have a legacy to them, loosely. I'm hearing that legacy is waning. But, that conflicts with reports I've personally heard from several people that admin transfers will be issued freely to these families when the time comes. Can you blame them? Who's going to want to switch schools after 5 or 6 years? At that point you're so heavily involved.

Yup. That's all done. Only school board members get admin transfers now, for their own kids. The school board used to have a policy that said:

If approved, administrative transfers remain in place for the number of years spanned by that school, provided:
• The child demonstrates good attendance and punctuality in accordance with Policy JED.
• The child demonstrates appropriate behavior in school.

That policy is still on the books but it no longer means anything. Schools are looking for excuses to transfer out anyone with an AT.

Uhhh, whas that about SB members getting transfers the taxpaying public doesn't?

I'm gonna need a source for that because that shit is crooked as all get out. Oh, and it's also very FOIA-ABLE. The city even has an online form to facilitate the process. Under 250 pages is free.

We might just have stumbled upon some front page news folks.

Check out transfers into LC from MVCS.

That's another example of unfair treatment. Transfers out of MVCS are permittedt because of the duel language program. More disparity.

It's BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admin transfers used to have a legacy to them, loosely. I'm hearing that legacy is waning. But, that conflicts with reports I've personally heard from several people that admin transfers will be issued freely to these families when the time comes. Can you blame them? Who's going to want to switch schools after 5 or 6 years? At that point you're so heavily involved.

Yup. That's all done. Only school board members get admin transfers now, for their own kids. The school board used to have a policy that said:

If approved, administrative transfers remain in place for the number of years spanned by that school, provided:
• The child demonstrates good attendance and punctuality in accordance with Policy JED.
• The child demonstrates appropriate behavior in school.

That policy is still on the books but it no longer means anything. Schools are looking for excuses to transfer out anyone with an AT.

Uhhh, whas that about SB members getting transfers the taxpaying public doesn't?

I'm gonna need a source for that because that shit is crooked as all get out. Oh, and it's also very FOIA-ABLE. The city even has an online form to facilitate the process. Under 250 pages is free.

We might just have stumbled upon some front page news folks.

Check out transfers into LC from MVCS.

You have been harping on that transfer for years. Btw I think her kid transferred back to MVCS.
If you had spent the same amount of time calling up the principal of LC and then filling out the admin transfer form, your kid too would have had a transfer to LC.

[Anonymous]

Who is she?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is she?

School board chair; transferred own kids into an elementary that was off-limits to other applicants. Typical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who is she?

School board chair; transferred own kids into an elementary that was off-limits to other applicants. Typical.

I get that. I was asking her name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is she?

School board chair; transferred own kids into an elementary that was off-limits to other applicants. Typical.

Except dozens of other kids transferred from JH to LC up until the last couple of years, so I don't know why you're saying it was off limits. Anyone can transfer out of MVCS because of the dual language (and also because it used to have year-round calendar), so there was no special treatment there as far as I can tell. And I believe the board member's children transferred back to MVCS when they abolished the year-round calendar (which was the purported reason for not attending.)

[Anonymous]

Whoever said this place was catty is spot on. Twice someone has asked to name the woman several of you keep trashing, but not one of you has the courage to do it.

Typical liberal behavior. I pity the kids you're raising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever said this place was catty is spot on. Twice someone has asked to name the woman several of you keep trashing, but not one of you has the courage to do it.

Typical liberal behavior. I pity the kids you're raising.

Name the kids you're raising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever said this place was catty is spot on. Twice someone has asked to name the woman several of you keep trashing, but not one of you has the courage to do it.

Typical liberal behavior. I pity the kids you're raising.

To be clear, is isn't the current female ACPS School Board chairwoman who started in 2016 I think. Just Google it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whoever said this place was catty is spot on. Twice someone has asked to name the woman several of you keep trashing, but not one of you has the courage to do it.

Typical liberal behavior. I pity the kids you're raising.

Name the kids you're raising.

We found the poster that got 980 on the SATs.