Nancy Van Doren just went off the deep end

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how the almost exclusive focus of the SB now is not on ensuring the county has a fourth comprehensive neighborhood high school ready in a few years. Not some additional, lame choice school that gets shoved down the throats of quirky kids, or a 1300-student school that is so obviously "less than" the existing schools.

How did this county squander its advantages so quickly? What a bunch of imbeciles.

1. Ignore data.
2. Refuse to admit you might have been wrong in the past.
3. Capitulate the demands of the squeakiest wheels with the best connections.

[Anonymous]

This thread is so depressing.

My kid is 2. I don't want to leave Arlington because it's so great for my commute, but we may have up suck it up & move to Fairfax in a few if the board doesn't vote for the Kenmore option. Ugh. And that's playing right into the SB's hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: She is so crazy (and really just selfish). Twins as one really does give 2 lottery tickets and it's incredibly unfair.

It doesn't actually give 2 lottery tickets - twins only get one entry in the lottery, not two, and the class expands by one if twins get the slot, so no one is deprived of a seat.

However, I agree completely that this rant is bizarre, that her comment to/about Reid Goldstein was extremely rude, and that I find her to be the most difficult and stubborn of the school board members.

[Anonymous]

I will not post it on Arlington Education Matters but I would totally alert arlnow if they would let me be an anonymous source.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so depressing.

My kid is 2. I don't want to leave Arlington because it's so great for my commute, but we may have up suck it up & move to Fairfax in a few if the board doesn't vote for the Kenmore option. Ugh. And that's playing right into the SB's hands.

I have a 1 year old. We are moving out of state, and I'm not sad about it. My kid would have gotten a good education here, but I'm relieved to not be worrying about this anymore.
I'm still going to the caucus. This county needs some changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: She is so crazy (and really just selfish). Twins as one really does give 2 lottery tickets and it's incredibly unfair.

It doesn't actually give 2 lottery tickets - twins only get one entry in the lottery, not two, and the class expands by one if twins get the slot, so no one is deprived of a seat.

However, I agree completely that this rant is bizarre, that her comment to/about Reid Goldstein was extremely rude, and that I find her to be the most difficult and stubborn of the school board members.

It sort of is, though. If one gets in, they expand the class. If they could expand the class, they should have given it to another lottery student, not a twin. If the family doesn't want the twins in different schools they send then to the neighborhood school. It's really that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will not post it on Arlington Education Matters but I would totally alert arlnow if they would let me be an anonymous source. [/quote}

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so depressing.

My kid is 2. I don't want to leave Arlington because it's so great for my commute, but we may have up suck it up & move to Fairfax in a few if the board doesn't vote for the Kenmore option. Ugh. And that's playing right into the SB's hands.

I have a 1 year old. We are moving out of state, and I'm not sad about it. My kid would have gotten a good education here, but I'm relieved to not be worrying about this anymore.
I'm still going to the caucus. This county needs some changes.

Thank you for still participating & caring, even though you're leaving!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: She is so crazy (and really just selfish). Twins as one really does give 2 lottery tickets and it's incredibly unfair.

It doesn't actually give 2 lottery tickets - twins only get one entry in the lottery, not two, and the class expands by one if twins get the slot, so no one is deprived of a seat.

However, I agree completely that this rant is bizarre, that her comment to/about Reid Goldstein was extremely rude, and that I find her to be the most difficult and stubborn of the school board members.

It sort of is, though. If one gets in, they expand the class. If they could expand the class, they should have given it to another lottery student, not a twin. If the family doesn't want the twins in different schools they send then to the neighborhood school. It's really that simple.

Yep! Hard to argue with logic. Van Dorn has lost my vote. She sounds CRA ZEE!

[Anonymous]

I am not a fan of Libby Garvey, but I think that she was making decisions about enrollment before the kids who are currently in K-2 were even born. It's really hard to predict K enrollment more than 5 years out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Libby Garvey, but I think that she was making decisions about enrollment before the kids who are currently in K-2 were even born. It's really hard to predict K enrollment more than 5 years out.

I certainly don't mean to lay this all at the door of the current SB and administration. But everyone seemed surprised that the people buying giant faux Craftsman houses filled them with babies who grew up and wanted to go to school. And when things like the McKinley numbers foulup happen, no one looks for root causes or decides to hold up on related decisions until they know what's happening. They don't look for the least expensive approach to solving problems. They don't make plans to assess the costs and benefits of programs.

Demands are increasing and money is limited. As bad as things are now, they are going to get worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of Libby Garvey, but I think that she was making decisions about enrollment before the kids who are currently in K-2 were even born. It's really hard to predict K enrollment more than 5 years out.

Huh? Did you mean to respond to a different thread?

There's only one current SB member who has been around long enough to blame for lack of foresight and planning. Coincidentally, he is up for reelection this very May. I will be registering my displeasure with this member by voting against him, and voting for both of his opponents. He's certainly not the only one to blame for this, but he's the only one who is up for a vote this year.

[Anonymous]

I am not on AEM anymore. Please, please someone post a link to the meeting and ask people about what they thought. Those parents need to see how NVD acts.

[Anonymous]

Wow. I watched the "that's for sure" comment first and didn't see it as that big of a deal and then went back and watched the exchange between Nancy and Reid about twins and Nancy's outburst. That was incredibly unprofessional and makes her later comment even worse I didn't understand before that she was telling Reid that she was personally offended by his (very sensible)b questions. It's completely possible to make an emotional and passionate plea and case in political circumstances without acting as rude as she did. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Thank you, Nancy, for educating me on the enormous discriminatory challenges that twins face every minute of every day. Consider me #woke.

WTF.