Shooting near Drew elementary

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Anonymous wrote:But hey, I get it. You really, really, really want people to be scared of the poor black/brown school. Classy.

Did you know there was a shooting near Nottingham last year?

I love near Nottingham, and I didn't know there was a shooting near here unless you are referring to the murder/suicide of an elderly couple.

The house party where the local 20-something was shot by a guy who was later arrested up in New York. Happened at a house a block west of the school, closer than this shooting was to Drew.

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Anonymous wrote:Fortunately the shooting wasn't at the school and had nothing to do with the school. What were these other three incidents of shootings near the school during the school day?

Unfortunately kids were outside and it was directly across the street.

Across the street from the rear of the parcel, with a baseball diamond, the community center, the sprayground, and a roadway in between the incident and any kids outside. It did not involve the school, stop trying to make it like it did.

And I'm still waiting for you to substantiate your claim that it's the fourth shooting in two years. I'm sure you didn't just pull that from your ass to try to slander the school.

PP again, I have to amend that because they've updated the location of the shooting in the article. There was actually the school building itself, the baseball diamond, a parking lot, a couple of houses and a couple of commercial buildings between where the kids were playing and where the shooting happened.

THATs a relief! It was in front of the preschool, not the elementary school. I live in the neighborhood and this is unacceptable, day or nights, half a block a way or on the grounds themselves.

Let me guess, you’re in a unit that could end up zoned for Drew this fall and you’re nervous about what those demographics might look like now that Montessori is moving out so you’re kicking up a fuss about Drew being a dangerous place in the hopes you’ll motivate your neighborhood to get your unit zoned elsewhere. Posting on Nextdoor would be a more effective way to reach them directly but then you’d have to put your name on it.

Nope. I live in Nauck proper and have for years. You're hearing a local speak some truth. I didn't slander the school. I pointed out that it ain't great when the surrounding neighborhood averages one shooting a year near the school. Sorry if offends you in an abstract way but I actually live here and care about it.

So you’re saying this isn’t actually about the school and thus doesn’t belong in VA Public Schools?

Im saying a shooting in broad daylight during school hours that results in the lockdown of a school absolutely belongs in this forum. It scares the sh1t out of parents whose kids are going to get rezoned there, as well as who go there right now. Your blase attitude tells me you have no stake in today's events, it's just an opportunity to argue.

So it is about not wanting your unit zoned to Drew this fall. Classy.

Jeez, what part of "Nauck proper" did you miss? I'm zoned for Drew now and always will be. Just stop responding, you're embarrassing yourself. I rescind my earlier query about where you live. I don't want to assume that your school's surrounding neighborhood doesn't see an equal amount of violent crime.

Sounds like you should move, your kid is in far more danger while they sleep than at the school given the statistics.

Thanks for putting a finer point on my initial post: this shooting will lead a lot of current and potential Drew families to say, "it's time to move. It's not safe here." As I said, not a good look for the new Drew. Not the schools fault but the neighborhood violence is not a separate issue, unfortunately.

Wow, this really is a new racist low in the Arlington boundary wars.

Yeah, not wanting your kid to catch a stray bullet is totally racist.

Sucks to be you, I guess.

It's irritating when someone tells me gunshots that result in a school lockdown in my own neighborhood are nothing to worry about, and, its racist to do so. I understand the impulse to protect Drew and downplay negative news, but it's not easy to do when you actually live here.

What do you expect APS to do about it? After all, you're the one saying the school is the issue here, what do you want the school to do to ensure your child's safety? And why are you less worried about the far more frequent nighttime shootings?

You mean the shootings you earlier accused me of "pulling out of my ass"? I am concerned about them and that's why I listed them for you.

I don't expect APS to do anything more than they are doing, and nowhere have I complained about their response. Locking the school down and getting kids inside was the right choice, IMO.

And last, I never said the school was the issue. I repeatedly said violence in the surrounding neighborhood was the issue, and was reflecting poorly on Drew. And that makes it an appropriate topic of discussion. I'll let you get the last word in, which will no doubt be yet another effort to mischaracterize my words. I'm done being patient with your knee jerk reactions.

You posted this in VA Public Schools, so I don't see how you can claim you never said schools were the issue.

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Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

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Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

LOL, busted!

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Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

The default is actually Drew, not Hoffman Boston. That's part of the reason the Drew graded program struggles so much; parents in the know opt out of it for Hoffman. If Drew was the opt in choice, it'd benefit from those self selecting families, but as the civic assn has pointed out, the graded program really struggles. It has a poverty rate of over 75%. A moot point though. All of Nauck will be zoned to Drew for next school year. There will be no hoffman Boston option and the kids going there now will move to Drew.

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Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

LOL, busted!

NO. They are zoned Drew but cango to HB. Do you even go here? Just go back to talking about asfs, it’s fascinating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

You are pathetic and don’t know what you are talking about. Nauck is zoned Drew.

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Anonymous wrote:Fortunately the shooting wasn't at the school and had nothing to do with the school. What were these other three incidents of shootings near the school during the school day?

Unfortunately kids were outside and it was directly across the street.

Across the street from the rear of the parcel, with a baseball diamond, the community center, the sprayground, and a roadway in between the incident and any kids outside. It did not involve the school, stop trying to make it like it did.

And I'm still waiting for you to substantiate your claim that it's the fourth shooting in two years. I'm sure you didn't just pull that from your ass to try to slander the school.

PP again, I have to amend that because they've updated the location of the shooting in the article. There was actually the school building itself, the baseball diamond, a parking lot, a couple of houses and a couple of commercial buildings between where the kids were playing and where the shooting happened.

THATs a relief! It was in front of the preschool, not the elementary school. I live in the neighborhood and this is unacceptable, day or nights, half a block a way or on the grounds themselves.

Let me guess, you’re in a unit that could end up zoned for Drew this fall and you’re nervous about what those demographics might look like now that Montessori is moving out so you’re kicking up a fuss about Drew being a dangerous place in the hopes you’ll motivate your neighborhood to get your unit zoned elsewhere. Posting on Nextdoor would be a more effective way to reach them directly but then you’d have to put your name on it.

Nope. I live in Nauck proper and have for years. You're hearing a local speak some truth. I didn't slander the school. I pointed out that it ain't great when the surrounding neighborhood averages one shooting a year near the school. Sorry if offends you in an abstract way but I actually live here and care about it.

So you’re saying this isn’t actually about the school and thus doesn’t belong in VA Public Schools?

Im saying a shooting in broad daylight during school hours that results in the lockdown of a school absolutely belongs in this forum. It scares the sh1t out of parents whose kids are going to get rezoned there, as well as who go there right now. Your blase attitude tells me you have no stake in today's events, it's just an opportunity to argue.

So it is about not wanting your unit zoned to Drew this fall. Classy.

Jeez, what part of "Nauck proper" did you miss? I'm zoned for Drew now and always will be. Just stop responding, you're embarrassing yourself. I rescind my earlier query about where you live. I don't want to assume that your school's surrounding neighborhood doesn't see an equal amount of violent crime.

Sounds like you should move, your kid is in far more danger while they sleep than at the school given the statistics.

Thanks for putting a finer point on my initial post: this shooting will lead a lot of current and potential Drew families to say, "it's time to move. It's not safe here." As I said, not a good look for the new Drew. Not the schools fault but the neighborhood violence is not a separate issue, unfortunately.

Wow, this really is a new racist low in the Arlington boundary wars.

Yeah, not wanting your kid to catch a stray bullet is totally racist.

Sucks to be you, I guess.

It's irritating when someone tells me gunshots that result in a school lockdown in my own neighborhood are nothing to worry about, and, its racist to do so. I understand the impulse to protect Drew and downplay negative news, but it's not easy to do when you actually live here.

What do you expect APS to do about it? After all, you're the one saying the school is the issue here, what do you want the school to do to ensure your child's safety? And why are you less worried about the far more frequent nighttime shootings?

Is anyone going to answer this question for real?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

LOL, busted!

NO. They are zoned Drew but cango to HB. Do you even go here? Just go back to talking about asfs, it’s fascinating.

PP is accurate if you just insert the word "exclusively" in there. Since you raised ASFS, saying Nauck is zoned to Drew is like saying Rosslyn, before this year, was zoned to Key. Yes, strictly-speaking that was true, but it ignored a big piece of the equation that was the right to attend a different elementary school if you chose and without regard to lotteries or capacity considerations. OP was not been forced into Drew by zoning, that was her choice.

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Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

LOL, busted!

NO. They are zoned Drew but cango to HB. Do you even go here? Just go back to talking about asfs, it’s fascinating.

PP is accurate if you just insert the word "exclusively" in there. Since you raised ASFS, saying Nauck is zoned to Drew is like saying Rosslyn, before this year, was zoned to Key. Yes, strictly-speaking that was true, but it ignored a big piece of the equation that was the right to attend a different elementary school if you chose and without regard to lotteries or capacity considerations. OP was not been forced into Drew by zoning, that was her choice.

Yes pp accurate, if you change their statement.

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Anonymous wrote:Fortunately the shooting wasn't at the school and had nothing to do with the school. What were these other three incidents of shootings near the school during the school day?

Unfortunately kids were outside and it was directly across the street.

Across the street from the rear of the parcel, with a baseball diamond, the community center, the sprayground, and a roadway in between the incident and any kids outside. It did not involve the school, stop trying to make it like it did.

And I'm still waiting for you to substantiate your claim that it's the fourth shooting in two years. I'm sure you didn't just pull that from your ass to try to slander the school.

PP again, I have to amend that because they've updated the location of the shooting in the article. There was actually the school building itself, the baseball diamond, a parking lot, a couple of houses and a couple of commercial buildings between where the kids were playing and where the shooting happened.

THATs a relief! It was in front of the preschool, not the elementary school. I live in the neighborhood and this is unacceptable, day or nights, half a block a way or on the grounds themselves.

Let me guess, you’re in a unit that could end up zoned for Drew this fall and you’re nervous about what those demographics might look like now that Montessori is moving out so you’re kicking up a fuss about Drew being a dangerous place in the hopes you’ll motivate your neighborhood to get your unit zoned elsewhere. Posting on Nextdoor would be a more effective way to reach them directly but then you’d have to put your name on it.

Nope. I live in Nauck proper and have for years. You're hearing a local speak some truth. I didn't slander the school. I pointed out that it ain't great when the surrounding neighborhood averages one shooting a year near the school. Sorry if offends you in an abstract way but I actually live here and care about it.

So you’re saying this isn’t actually about the school and thus doesn’t belong in VA Public Schools?

Im saying a shooting in broad daylight during school hours that results in the lockdown of a school absolutely belongs in this forum. It scares the sh1t out of parents whose kids are going to get rezoned there, as well as who go there right now. Your blase attitude tells me you have no stake in today's events, it's just an opportunity to argue.

So it is about not wanting your unit zoned to Drew this fall. Classy.

Jeez, what part of "Nauck proper" did you miss? I'm zoned for Drew now and always will be. Just stop responding, you're embarrassing yourself. I rescind my earlier query about where you live. I don't want to assume that your school's surrounding neighborhood doesn't see an equal amount of violent crime.

Sounds like you should move, your kid is in far more danger while they sleep than at the school given the statistics.

Thanks for putting a finer point on my initial post: this shooting will lead a lot of current and potential Drew families to say, "it's time to move. It's not safe here." As I said, not a good look for the new Drew. Not the schools fault but the neighborhood violence is not a separate issue, unfortunately.

Wow, this really is a new racist low in the Arlington boundary wars.

Yeah, not wanting your kid to catch a stray bullet is totally racist.

Sucks to be you, I guess.

It's irritating when someone tells me gunshots that result in a school lockdown in my own neighborhood are nothing to worry about, and, its racist to do so. I understand the impulse to protect Drew and downplay negative news, but it's not easy to do when you actually live here.

What do you expect APS to do about it? After all, you're the one saying the school is the issue here, what do you want the school to do to ensure your child's safety? And why are you less worried about the far more frequent nighttime shootings?

Is anyone going to answer this question for real?

No, because they know a few random guys having a dispute a few blocks from the school over something that happened at a 7-11 that didn’t put the students in danger is entirely outside of APS’s control and isn’t a school issue. PP busted them too soon on scaring things up so they don’t get zoned from Oakridge to Drew for them to put together a story.

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Anonymous wrote:Fortunately the shooting wasn't at the school and had nothing to do with the school. What were these other three incidents of shootings near the school during the school day?

Unfortunately kids were outside and it was directly across the street.

Across the street from the rear of the parcel, with a baseball diamond, the community center, the sprayground, and a roadway in between the incident and any kids outside. It did not involve the school, stop trying to make it like it did.

And I'm still waiting for you to substantiate your claim that it's the fourth shooting in two years. I'm sure you didn't just pull that from your ass to try to slander the school.

PP again, I have to amend that because they've updated the location of the shooting in the article. There was actually the school building itself, the baseball diamond, a parking lot, a couple of houses and a couple of commercial buildings between where the kids were playing and where the shooting happened.

THATs a relief! It was in front of the preschool, not the elementary school. I live in the neighborhood and this is unacceptable, day or nights, half a block a way or on the grounds themselves.

Let me guess, you’re in a unit that could end up zoned for Drew this fall and you’re nervous about what those demographics might look like now that Montessori is moving out so you’re kicking up a fuss about Drew being a dangerous place in the hopes you’ll motivate your neighborhood to get your unit zoned elsewhere. Posting on Nextdoor would be a more effective way to reach them directly but then you’d have to put your name on it.

Nope. I live in Nauck proper and have for years. You're hearing a local speak some truth. I didn't slander the school. I pointed out that it ain't great when the surrounding neighborhood averages one shooting a year near the school. Sorry if offends you in an abstract way but I actually live here and care about it.

So you’re saying this isn’t actually about the school and thus doesn’t belong in VA Public Schools?

Im saying a shooting in broad daylight during school hours that results in the lockdown of a school absolutely belongs in this forum. It scares the sh1t out of parents whose kids are going to get rezoned there, as well as who go there right now. Your blase attitude tells me you have no stake in today's events, it's just an opportunity to argue.

So it is about not wanting your unit zoned to Drew this fall. Classy.

Jeez, what part of "Nauck proper" did you miss? I'm zoned for Drew now and always will be. Just stop responding, you're embarrassing yourself. I rescind my earlier query about where you live. I don't want to assume that your school's surrounding neighborhood doesn't see an equal amount of violent crime.

Sounds like you should move, your kid is in far more danger while they sleep than at the school given the statistics.

Thanks for putting a finer point on my initial post: this shooting will lead a lot of current and potential Drew families to say, "it's time to move. It's not safe here." As I said, not a good look for the new Drew. Not the schools fault but the neighborhood violence is not a separate issue, unfortunately.

Wow, this really is a new racist low in the Arlington boundary wars.

Yeah, not wanting your kid to catch a stray bullet is totally racist.

Sucks to be you, I guess.

It's irritating when someone tells me gunshots that result in a school lockdown in my own neighborhood are nothing to worry about, and, its racist to do so. I understand the impulse to protect Drew and downplay negative news, but it's not easy to do when you actually live here.

What do you expect APS to do about it? After all, you're the one saying the school is the issue here, what do you want the school to do to ensure your child's safety? And why are you less worried about the far more frequent nighttime shootings?

Is anyone going to answer this question for real?

No, because they know a few random guys having a dispute a few blocks from the school over something that happened at a 7-11 that didn’t put the students in danger is entirely outside of APS’s control and isn’t a school issue. PP busted them too soon on scaring things up so they don’t get zoned from Oakridge to Drew for them to put together a story.

No one from Oakridge is getting zoned to Drew except for maybe the Berkeley so your explanation is BS.

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Anonymous wrote:The county board should be partnering with acpd. A shooting a year is starting to sound like that area is going backwards. The SB should be sensitive to farms number in the fall and not rezone struggling households currently zoned Oakridge. It’s going to take effort from all sides to improve that area. APS Included.

And there we go. This is about you fear-mongering because you don't want to get zoned to Drew. APS can't do anything about a shooting among people who have nothing to do with APS that happens a couple of blocks from the school and you know it.

Dear Dips#it,
I’m a different poster. The poster you are trolling has told
You multiple times THEY LIVE IN NAUCK. They are already zoned Drew. I moved out of south arlingitn because of sh#t like this. The idea that you don’t see Local gov’t’s ( that includes APS) role in improving this situation is beyond delusional. Go.sat.down.

Dear Dipshit,

No one is currently zoned Drew. The Nauck neighborhood is zoned for Hoffman-Boston but has the option of attending Drew instead if they would like. If OP's kid is currently at Drew, it's because she chose that over Hoffman-Boston, not because it was forced upon her.

LOL, busted!

NO. They are zoned Drew but cango to HB. Do you even go here? Just go back to talking about asfs, it’s fascinating.

PP is accurate if you just insert the word "exclusively" in there. Since you raised ASFS, saying Nauck is zoned to Drew is like saying Rosslyn, before this year, was zoned to Key. Yes, strictly-speaking that was true, but it ignored a big piece of the equation that was the right to attend a different elementary school if you chose and without regard to lotteries or capacity considerations. OP was not been forced into Drew by zoning, that was her choice.

Yes pp accurate, if you change their statement.

So you're saying OP had no choice but to send her kid to Drew? The option to send her kid to Hoffman-Boston was taken away from her even when it was available to other families? That seems unlikely.

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Anonymous wrote:Fortunately the shooting wasn't at the school and had nothing to do with the school. What were these other three incidents of shootings near the school during the school day?

Unfortunately kids were outside and it was directly across the street.

Across the street from the rear of the parcel, with a baseball diamond, the community center, the sprayground, and a roadway in between the incident and any kids outside. It did not involve the school, stop trying to make it like it did.

And I'm still waiting for you to substantiate your claim that it's the fourth shooting in two years. I'm sure you didn't just pull that from your ass to try to slander the school.

PP again, I have to amend that because they've updated the location of the shooting in the article. There was actually the school building itself, the baseball diamond, a parking lot, a couple of houses and a couple of commercial buildings between where the kids were playing and where the shooting happened.

THATs a relief! It was in front of the preschool, not the elementary school. I live in the neighborhood and this is unacceptable, day or nights, half a block a way or on the grounds themselves.

Let me guess, you’re in a unit that could end up zoned for Drew this fall and you’re nervous about what those demographics might look like now that Montessori is moving out so you’re kicking up a fuss about Drew being a dangerous place in the hopes you’ll motivate your neighborhood to get your unit zoned elsewhere. Posting on Nextdoor would be a more effective way to reach them directly but then you’d have to put your name on it.

Nope. I live in Nauck proper and have for years. You're hearing a local speak some truth. I didn't slander the school. I pointed out that it ain't great when the surrounding neighborhood averages one shooting a year near the school. Sorry if offends you in an abstract way but I actually live here and care about it.

So you’re saying this isn’t actually about the school and thus doesn’t belong in VA Public Schools?

Im saying a shooting in broad daylight during school hours that results in the lockdown of a school absolutely belongs in this forum. It scares the sh1t out of parents whose kids are going to get rezoned there, as well as who go there right now. Your blase attitude tells me you have no stake in today's events, it's just an opportunity to argue.

So it is about not wanting your unit zoned to Drew this fall. Classy.

Jeez, what part of "Nauck proper" did you miss? I'm zoned for Drew now and always will be. Just stop responding, you're embarrassing yourself. I rescind my earlier query about where you live. I don't want to assume that your school's surrounding neighborhood doesn't see an equal amount of violent crime.

Sounds like you should move, your kid is in far more danger while they sleep than at the school given the statistics.

Thanks for putting a finer point on my initial post: this shooting will lead a lot of current and potential Drew families to say, "it's time to move. It's not safe here." As I said, not a good look for the new Drew. Not the schools fault but the neighborhood violence is not a separate issue, unfortunately.

Wow, this really is a new racist low in the Arlington boundary wars.

Yeah, not wanting your kid to catch a stray bullet is totally racist.

Sucks to be you, I guess.

It's irritating when someone tells me gunshots that result in a school lockdown in my own neighborhood are nothing to worry about, and, its racist to do so. I understand the impulse to protect Drew and downplay negative news, but it's not easy to do when you actually live here.

What do you expect APS to do about it? After all, you're the one saying the school is the issue here, what do you want the school to do to ensure your child's safety? And why are you less worried about the far more frequent nighttime shootings?

Is anyone going to answer this question for real?

No, because they know a few random guys having a dispute a few blocks from the school over something that happened at a 7-11 that didn’t put the students in danger is entirely outside of APS’s control and isn’t a school issue. PP busted them too soon on scaring things up so they don’t get zoned from Oakridge to Drew for them to put together a story.

No one from Oakridge is getting zoned to Drew except for maybe the Berkeley so your explanation is BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Fortunately the shooting wasn't at the school and had nothing to do with the school. What were these other three incidents of shootings near the school during the school day?

Unfortunately kids were outside and it was directly across the street.

Across the street from the rear of the parcel, with a baseball diamond, the community center, the sprayground, and a roadway in between the incident and any kids outside. It did not involve the school, stop trying to make it like it did.

And I'm still waiting for you to substantiate your claim that it's the fourth shooting in two years. I'm sure you didn't just pull that from your ass to try to slander the school.

PP again, I have to amend that because they've updated the location of the shooting in the article. There was actually the school building itself, the baseball diamond, a parking lot, a couple of houses and a couple of commercial buildings between where the kids were playing and where the shooting happened.

THATs a relief! It was in front of the preschool, not the elementary school. I live in the neighborhood and this is unacceptable, day or nights, half a block a way or on the grounds themselves.

Let me guess, you’re in a unit that could end up zoned for Drew this fall and you’re nervous about what those demographics might look like now that Montessori is moving out so you’re kicking up a fuss about Drew being a dangerous place in the hopes you’ll motivate your neighborhood to get your unit zoned elsewhere. Posting on Nextdoor would be a more effective way to reach them directly but then you’d have to put your name on it.

Nope. I live in Nauck proper and have for years. You're hearing a local speak some truth. I didn't slander the school. I pointed out that it ain't great when the surrounding neighborhood averages one shooting a year near the school. Sorry if offends you in an abstract way but I actually live here and care about it.

So you’re saying this isn’t actually about the school and thus doesn’t belong in VA Public Schools?

Im saying a shooting in broad daylight during school hours that results in the lockdown of a school absolutely belongs in this forum. It scares the sh1t out of parents whose kids are going to get rezoned there, as well as who go there right now. Your blase attitude tells me you have no stake in today's events, it's just an opportunity to argue.

So it is about not wanting your unit zoned to Drew this fall. Classy.

Jeez, what part of "Nauck proper" did you miss? I'm zoned for Drew now and always will be. Just stop responding, you're embarrassing yourself. I rescind my earlier query about where you live. I don't want to assume that your school's surrounding neighborhood doesn't see an equal amount of violent crime.

Sounds like you should move, your kid is in far more danger while they sleep than at the school given the statistics.

Thanks for putting a finer point on my initial post: this shooting will lead a lot of current and potential Drew families to say, "it's time to move. It's not safe here." As I said, not a good look for the new Drew. Not the schools fault but the neighborhood violence is not a separate issue, unfortunately.

Wow, this really is a new racist low in the Arlington boundary wars.

Yeah, not wanting your kid to catch a stray bullet is totally racist.

Sucks to be you, I guess.

It's irritating when someone tells me gunshots that result in a school lockdown in my own neighborhood are nothing to worry about, and, its racist to do so. I understand the impulse to protect Drew and downplay negative news, but it's not easy to do when you actually live here.

What do you expect APS to do about it? After all, you're the one saying the school is the issue here, what do you want the school to do to ensure your child's safety? And why are you less worried about the far more frequent nighttime shootings?

Is anyone going to answer this question for real?

No, because they know a few random guys having a dispute a few blocks from the school over something that happened at a 7-11 that didn’t put the students in danger is entirely outside of APS’s control and isn’t a school issue. PP busted them too soon on scaring things up so they don’t get zoned from Oakridge to Drew for them to put together a story.

No one from Oakridge is getting zoned to Drew except for maybe the Berkeley so your explanation is BS.

Way to deflect from the question. You all are full of shit with your concern trolling about this shooting.