Transfers in Arl. at elementary level

[Anonymous]

Has anyone seen the enrollment projections? http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/110/APS%20Enrollment%20Report_Online%20Version.pdf

My kid is slated to move into McKinley next year. It is going to be at 715 next year and 744 the year after that. The addition is only supposed to hold 684 students. I'm not sure why we are moving to a school that doesn't have room, but I guess other groups fought harder than those of us that wanted to stay. Anyway, it looks like Discovery won't even be AT capacity until Fall 2019. Can I apply for a transfer? It seems ridiculous to send my kid from one school with trailers to another one when I live just as close to one with extra space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen the enrollment projections? http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/110/APS%20Enrollment%20Report_Online%20Version.pdf

My kid is slated to move into McKinley next year. It is going to be at 715 next year and 744 the year after that. The addition is only supposed to hold 684 students. I'm not sure why we are moving to a school that doesn't have room, but I guess other groups fought harder than those of us that wanted to stay. Anyway, it looks like Discovery won't even be AT capacity until Fall 2019. Can I apply for a transfer? It seems ridiculous to send my kid from one school with trailers to another one when I live just as close to one with extra space.

Wow. This is big news. You should totally apply to transfer.

[Anonymous]

Yes, you can apply to transfer. You need to visit both schools and have the principal at each sign off on it (at least that's what the process has been in the past).

[Anonymous]

Why are they moving kids to McKinley if it's already above capacity?

[Anonymous]

Very depressing when you look at the HS projections just a few years out. Why oh why did they not build bigger schools when they had the chance?!?

But I'm guessing Murphy will be off on s beach collecting a nice pension when it really blows up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you can apply to transfer. You need to visit both schools and have the principal at each sign off on it (at least that's what the process has been in the past).

Do parents provide transportation or does APS? I thought APS was bussing kids to Kenmore from other middle schools, but I don't know if they do that at the ES level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you can apply to transfer. You need to visit both schools and have the principal at each sign off on it (at least that's what the process has been in the past).

Do parents provide transportation or does APS? I thought APS was bussing kids to Kenmore from other middle schools, but I don't know if they do that at the ES level.

APS generally does not provide bus service for transfer students.

http://www.apsva.us/page/3010

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you can apply to transfer. You need to visit both schools and have the principal at each sign off on it (at least that's what the process has been in the past).

Do parents provide transportation or does APS? I thought APS was bussing kids to Kenmore from other middle schools, but I don't know if they do that at the ES level.

APS generally does not provide bus service for transfer students.

http://www.apsva.us/page/3010

I kind of think that is ridiculous if kids are transferring from an overcrowded school to one with open seats.

[Anonymous]

According to that website, no schools are taking transfers, but APS's own projections show Discovery at 9% under capacity and the cap is 5%. Something doesn't add up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to that website, no schools are taking transfers, but APS's own projections show Discovery at 9% under capacity and the cap is 5%. Something doesn't add up.

This is Arlington. Nothing "needs" to add up.

[Anonymous]

Circling the drain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Circling the drain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Circling the drain.

Are you talking about the school system?

I am very concerned that they are always late to the game with new seats. I'm even more concerned that they aren't balancing the seats they have or have added. Why spend tax payer money on building a new school and then leave it undercapacity when there are students only a mile away who are in very overcrowded schools? They come up with bounadary changes years out and when the data changes, they dig in their heels at the expense of education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Circling the drain.

Are you talking about the school system?

I am very concerned that they are always late to the game with new seats. I'm even more concerned that they aren't balancing the seats they have or have added. Why spend tax payer money on building a new school and then leave it undercapacity when there are students only a mile away who are in very overcrowded schools? They come up with bounadary changes years out and when the data changes, they dig in their heels at the expense of education.

Yes, that's a concern. A real lack of effective planning. I am out of here after my kid finishes K.

[Anonymous]

OP, are you one of the Tuckahoe/Nottingham refugees? Or Glebe?

If the former, your special pleading is getting really annoying at this point. It was only a few months ago that you all were arguing that EVEN MORE OF YOU should be allowed to move over to McKinley because you didn't want your neighborhood split up. Never mind the giant burden this would have placed on McKinley to find seats for all your kids, you thought McKinley should take 150 of you instead of 80. Now all of a sudden you care about McKinley's overpopulation and trailers?

Moreover, NOW you think you should be allowed to go to the new school with the slide, and by the way the county should pay for your buses, too? Because your kids shouldn't be exposed to trailers, even though most schools in Arlington have them?

Here's some advice: it's not all about you, you, you. Your needs are not the MOST important in the county. The resources we have need to be shared. That doesn't mean your kid should get busing to the slide school. It means you should stop whining and work to make the school you do go to better. But above all stop whining.