APS elementary planning initiative called off

[Anonymous]

^ clarification - we don’t ALL want walkable, but most of the APS families ranked proximity as a high priority.

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Anonymous wrote:Not an ASF parent, but walkable families deserve a walkable school. The status quo is plain stupid. Rosslyn busers can be bused elsewhere or go to key. Move along there is nothing to see here.

Buses anywhere? That’s ridiculous, why should they have to have a much longer bus ride than any current Taylor student?

And they can’t go to key, that was the decision that made this mess. Why don’t you keep up.

Why are they more entitled to a seat at ASFS than kids who can see it from their backyard?

The same reason Lyon village can’t just claim Key school — it’s in use and needed by another population of APS students. No different.

Actually the difference is Key is an option school and ASFS is not. It’s beyond ridiculous to have a neighborhood school that students who live in its neighborhood cannot attend.

As far as busing to Taylor, half of Lyon Village already has to do that since that is already their neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

Even IF the school board moves the Key Immersion program in 2021, there are planning units that currently go to ASFS that are closer or the same distance to Long Branch than to Key or ASFS. Those planning units can be permanently moved once Fleet opens to relieve the overcrowding at ASFS (especially if the school board waits three years to fix the attendance/walk zone issue).

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Anonymous wrote:The misinformation on this site about ASFS is appalling.

No one who isn’t currently at ASFS joined the PTA and voted in the recent election. Two people who live in the neighborhood who would like to eventually attend the school came to one meeting where no election was held.


However, at the meeting where elections were held, the attendance record reached an all time high with new members/attendees who currently attend ASFS but had never come to a previous meeting. They showed up with copies of the same email (probably from the same PP accusing neighborhood people of being racist for wanting to walk to school) telling them who to vote for/vote out. Once the vote was over (and before the results were announced), they all left.

If anything, all these posts about ASFS support the need for APS and the SB to redrawn boundaries around ASFS sooner rather than later so that we can all be spared any further threads on the issue.

thanks for the accurate description

Actually not accurate; Cherrydale parents are fine to meet with PTA and advocate for their kids to attend a school; it’s when they cross the line and recommend cutting the boundary at Barton and giving direction for children not their own that they went to far.

Current ASFS parents have advocated FOR a walk zone, and instead of kicking people out they put together a plan and the PTA recommended for making use of the Buck property temporarily to use as swing class space while this demographic bulge and rezoning morass is worked out.

That was the recommendation of the diabolical Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership — expand into Cherrydale and make room.

Actually, actually this is another fabrication.

The letter that "Rosslyn parents and their PTA leadership" wrote was a cut and paste copy (otherwise known as plagiarized) letter that a walk zone family wrote a year earlier to the SB--how ironic. We won't get into how the cray crays treated their family, other than to say it was beyond shameful.

Don't believe anything this poster says. They are deceitful and detached from reality. They mix just enough truth into stories to make them believable, but in reality they are filled with disinformation.

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Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

I am really surprised at the number of people who are cool with people who don’t have parents at a school joining and voting in a schools PTA... even if it didn’t happen that is whack and not sure why anyone is cool with it.

If they rezone the whole county this fall and I find out that in three years my kids will be going to a different school, I will probably go ahead and join that PTA as well this year so I can get to know the school and the PTA before the transition. The bylaws fully support this and I see nothing wrong with it.

And that’s appropriate bc at that point you will be zoned for that school. Though honestly VOTING when your kids aren’t attending for years... that would be crude

That is your opinion. If National PTA felt this was problematic, they’d change the bylaws.

There is a reason neighborhood schools are in their neighborhoods. Turns out neighbors care about what happens at schools (not just elementary) in their neighborhood, regardless of whether or not they have children in the school or not.

Exactly.

Mostly they care about property values and traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

I am really surprised at the number of people who are cool with people who don’t have parents at a school joining and voting in a schools PTA... even if it didn’t happen that is whack and not sure why anyone is cool with it.

If they rezone the whole county this fall and I find out that in three years my kids will be going to a different school, I will probably go ahead and join that PTA as well this year so I can get to know the school and the PTA before the transition. The bylaws fully support this and I see nothing wrong with it.

And that’s appropriate bc at that point you will be zoned for that school. Though honestly VOTING when your kids aren’t attending for years... that would be crude

That is your opinion. If National PTA felt this was problematic, they’d change the bylaws.

There is a reason neighborhood schools are in their neighborhoods. Turns out neighbors care about what happens at schools (not just elementary) in their neighborhood, regardless of whether or not they have children in the school or not.

Exactly.

Mostly they care about property values and traffic.

It’s laughable that the “poor Rosslyn” families don’t have cars. Have you seen the number of cars on Lincoln st dropping off students? Many of them are BMWs. So wasteful. I’m sure that there are some families that don’t have cars, but to say everyone or even most families in Rosslyn are poor and/or don’t have cars is not believable

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Anonymous wrote:Even IF the school board moves the Key Immersion program in 2021, there are planning units that currently go to ASFS that are closer or the same distance to Long Branch than to Key or ASFS. Those planning units can be permanently moved once Fleet opens to relieve the overcrowding at ASFS (especially if the school board waits three years to fix the attendance/walk zone issue).

Key as Immersion isn’t going anywhere. Way too much political pull, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

I am really surprised at the number of people who are cool with people who don’t have parents at a school joining and voting in a schools PTA... even if it didn’t happen that is whack and not sure why anyone is cool with it.

If they rezone the whole county this fall and I find out that in three years my kids will be going to a different school, I will probably go ahead and join that PTA as well this year so I can get to know the school and the PTA before the transition. The bylaws fully support this and I see nothing wrong with it.

And that’s appropriate bc at that point you will be zoned for that school. Though honestly VOTING when your kids aren’t attending for years... that would be crude

That is your opinion. If National PTA felt this was problematic, they’d change the bylaws.

There is a reason neighborhood schools are in their neighborhoods. Turns out neighbors care about what happens at schools (not just elementary) in their neighborhood, regardless of whether or not they have children in the school or not.

Exactly.

Mostly they care about property values and traffic.

It’s laughable that the “poor Rosslyn” families don’t have cars. Have you seen the number of cars on Lincoln st dropping off students? Many of them are BMWs. So wasteful. I’m sure that there are some families that don’t have cars, but to say everyone or even most families in Rosslyn are poor and/or don’t have cars is not believable

It is where most of the poor families live though.

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Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

I am really surprised at the number of people who are cool with people who don’t have parents at a school joining and voting in a schools PTA... even if it didn’t happen that is whack and not sure why anyone is cool with it.

If they rezone the whole county this fall and I find out that in three years my kids will be going to a different school, I will probably go ahead and join that PTA as well this year so I can get to know the school and the PTA before the transition. The bylaws fully support this and I see nothing wrong with it.

And that’s appropriate bc at that point you will be zoned for that school. Though honestly VOTING when your kids aren’t attending for years... that would be crude

That is your opinion. If National PTA felt this was problematic, they’d change the bylaws.

There is a reason neighborhood schools are in their neighborhoods. Turns out neighbors care about what happens at schools (not just elementary) in their neighborhood, regardless of whether or not they have children in the school or not.

Exactly.

Mostly they care about property values and traffic.

It’s laughable that the “poor Rosslyn” families don’t have cars. Have you seen the number of cars on Lincoln st dropping off students? Many of them are BMWs. So wasteful. I’m sure that there are some families that don’t have cars, but to say everyone or even most families in Rosslyn are poor and/or don’t have cars is not believable

It is where most of the poor families live though.

Where? Rents are high there.

[Anonymous]

If most of the poor families live in Rosslyn, wouldn’t they want a closer to school like Long Branch? It literally sits on 50 and is easily accessible by Metro bus. ASFS seems like a pain to get to if you didn’t have a car.

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Anonymous wrote:If most of the poor families live in Rosslyn, wouldn’t they want a closer to school like Long Branch? It literally sits on 50 and is easily accessible by Metro bus. ASFS seems like a pain to get to if you didn’t have a car.

It’s not that bad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

I am really surprised at the number of people who are cool with people who don’t have parents at a school joining and voting in a schools PTA... even if it didn’t happen that is whack and not sure why anyone is cool with it.

If they rezone the whole county this fall and I find out that in three years my kids will be going to a different school, I will probably go ahead and join that PTA as well this year so I can get to know the school and the PTA before the transition. The bylaws fully support this and I see nothing wrong with it.

And that’s appropriate bc at that point you will be zoned for that school. Though honestly VOTING when your kids aren’t attending for years... that would be crude

That is your opinion. If National PTA felt this was problematic, they’d change the bylaws.

There is a reason neighborhood schools are in their neighborhoods. Turns out neighbors care about what happens at schools (not just elementary) in their neighborhood, regardless of whether or not they have children in the school or not.

Exactly.

Mostly they care about property values and traffic.

It’s laughable that the “poor Rosslyn” families don’t have cars. Have you seen the number of cars on Lincoln st dropping off students? Many of them are BMWs. So wasteful. I’m sure that there are some families that don’t have cars, but to say everyone or even most families in Rosslyn are poor and/or don’t have cars is not believable

It is where most of the poor families live though.

Where? Rents are high there.

I don’t know the names of the exact buildings but there are a few that hold lower SES families.

Remember the Rosslyn island for Yorktown provides the only SES diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were there non-PTA members voting in the recent election?! Yikes!

They should have had a sign-in sheet.

That is not what pp said. PP said people who do not currently have children ASFS joined the PTA and then voted in the PTA election as valid voting members.

I am really surprised at the number of people who are cool with people who don’t have parents at a school joining and voting in a schools PTA... even if it didn’t happen that is whack and not sure why anyone is cool with it.

If they rezone the whole county this fall and I find out that in three years my kids will be going to a different school, I will probably go ahead and join that PTA as well this year so I can get to know the school and the PTA before the transition. The bylaws fully support this and I see nothing wrong with it.

And that’s appropriate bc at that point you will be zoned for that school. Though honestly VOTING when your kids aren’t attending for years... that would be crude

That is your opinion. If National PTA felt this was problematic, they’d change the bylaws.

There is a reason neighborhood schools are in their neighborhoods. Turns out neighbors care about what happens at schools (not just elementary) in their neighborhood, regardless of whether or not they have children in the school or not.

Exactly.

Mostly they care about property values and traffic.

It’s laughable that the “poor Rosslyn” families don’t have cars. Have you seen the number of cars on Lincoln st dropping off students? Many of them are BMWs. So wasteful. I’m sure that there are some families that don’t have cars, but to say everyone or even most families in Rosslyn are poor and/or don’t have cars is not believable

It is where most of the poor families live though.

Where? Rents are high there.

I don’t know the names of the exact buildings but there are a few that hold lower SES families.

Remember the Rosslyn island for Yorktown provides the only SES diversity.

Riverplace and Colonial Village are the big ones, plus a bunch of nondescript low rise apartment buildings are still around.

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Anonymous wrote:If most of the poor families live in Rosslyn, wouldn’t they want a closer to school like Long Branch? It literally sits on 50 and is easily accessible by Metro bus. ASFS seems like a pain to get to if you didn’t have a car.

I would, yes, but my kids haven’t started school yet. The insanity is coming from people who already have kids in school who can’t be objective about it.

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Anonymous wrote:If most of the poor families live in Rosslyn, wouldn’t they want a closer to school like Long Branch? It literally sits on 50 and is easily accessible by Metro bus. ASFS seems like a pain to get to if you didn’t have a car.

I would, yes, but my kids haven’t started school yet. The insanity is coming from people who already have kids in school who can’t be objective about it.

Agree