South Arlington elementary school boundary adjustments 2019
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Anonymous
| There's only about 100 former Tuckahoe kids at McKinley. It is not going to have room for the 300+ Tuckahoe kids left after Reed opens. McKinley and Nottingham will have to absorb about 150 kids each to deal with Tuckahoe overflow if it closes. |
Anonymous
Key and asfs are slightly different from tuckahoe and reed. Since key/asfs share a boundary, most of the kids at asfs are very close if not walking distance to key. The community would largely be preserved. Since many things outside of school (sports leagues, Girl Scouts, etc) are shared between key and asfs, moving the school wouldn’t be as disruptive as if you were to dissolve the boundary. For example, my kids are at asfs, and our soccer team typically has one or two kids from key. We practice at key since the field at asfs sucks. My kids Girl Scout Troop has three kids from key. Moving tuckahoe is really disruptive— that community ceases to exist. Not so with moving asfs to key. That and key and asfs are 0.9 miles walking. A little smaller than 1.5. |
Anonymous
Doesn’t every kids at an aps school play an instrument? I thought it was required in 4th/5th grade. |
Anonymous
It varies by school. At Long Branch is was encouraged but not required. My kids didn't want to do choir there but both played an instrument. |
Anonymous
No. The number of former Tuckahoe students is greater than 100. Also, MCK families lies will be moving to Reed in large numbers |
Anonymous
| Not much greater than 100. And lots of those Tuckahoe kids would not be bussed to McKinley. A good chunk of them will be Notthingham walkers. LIke close to 150. Because the number of walkers that the county put out in Jan didn't include the ones on the other side Sycamore. |
Anonymous
Assuming you are the "McKinley can't take 300 kids" poster, you are forgetting that McKinley will be losing all the students above Washington (which is a ton!!) and a portion of kids on the other side of Washington who are still in the Westover area. Reed has 600 walkers and a lot of those are pulling away from McKInley. It absolutely will have room to absorb units left at Tuckahoe. |
Anonymous
| If the Board decides to dissolve Tuckahoe, they are not busing Tuckahoe walkers to McKinley. They will go to Nottingham. They might bus the few non Reed Tuckahoe kids from S of Lee hwy but not the N units. This is why the Board won’t move an option there. Fear. Of. Nottingham. They are all over this. Nottingham vs. McKinley. The sequel. |
Anonymous
BS - Easy to remove Tuckahoe as a neighborhood school. 1/2 of Tuckahoe kids are below Lee highway they should go to Reed/McKinley anyways. Nottingham PUs below Lee should go to Reed/Glebe. Discovery can take Nottingham PUs above Williamsburg. If you need more space at Nottingham just send more PUs along Harrison street to Discovery and Jamestown/Taylor can absorb a few Discovery PUs if needed. With all of this extra space in Northwest Arlington 2021 would be a great year to start rebuilding each of the Elementary schools in NW Arlington. Each ES could be leveled and rebuilt by spreading those kids around Tuckahoe, Glebe, Nottingham, Jamestown and Taylor. |
Anonymous
Or the ones in South Arlington, lol |
Anonymous
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So since this is the S Arlington thread...
Is there a scenario where the placement of the option programs can be changed to help S Arlington demographic balancing? Specifically thinking of the Key immersion program that they want to move anyway. |
Anonymous
This is where moving immersion to the ATS site would help. Still in north Arlington to get those parents, but could more easily pull Spanish speakers or even low SES families from Barrett or Carlin Springs. |
Anonymous
What you don’t want to have a discussion about renovating north Arlington elementary schools? Can’t imagine. Anyway. Placing additional choice programs further away does 2 things to south Arlington 1) discourages low income families 2) makes it more likely there will be space for umc s arl kids to find a seat outside of their neighborhood. So, bad for the diversity of all APS. I guess good if you are well off, living in south Arlington, and wanting to avoid your neighborhood school. And that’s what families in my neighborhood had been doing for the last 30 years. Only very recently did I hear parents at the playground say they were going to tour Randolph. Older neighbors with high school kids have almost uniformly said Wakefield is great, don’t be scared. Randolph is to be avoided. It is easily demonstrated when you drive out of the neighborhood in the morning. 16th street is full of elementary aged kids catching buses out of the area. The walkers are coming in from the apartments. The last 3 years I started to see a handful more walkers from nearby homes. |
Anonymous
Generally? No. At one or two schools, maybe, but at the expense of the others. The county board has simply created and made untouchable too much low income housing in concentrated places. You'd need a giant high rise of affluent families to balance it now. Yhave to understand, the organizing principle of Arlington county govt is now an almost religious conviction about the sanctity and value and purity of affordable housing. There is literally nothing more important to the local democrats than this issue; not basic services, not public sector innovation, nothing. It's purely psychological; it makes them feel spiritually clean and gives them the warm and fuzzies. But that focus is on a collision course with the increasingly affluent south Arlington homeowner class which has until now been placated with option schools. If APS somehow is unable to satisfy them through the current boundary process, I think there will be some mild boiling over, a la the streetcar backlash. |
Anonymous
Since nothing is really happening along Lee Highway - can we force a 3 for 1 policy? 3 AH units west of Glebe along Lee highway completed for every 1 new AH unit in South Arlington? |