APS elementary planning initiative called off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


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Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


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Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

Ok so ms b will somehow figure out who I am and kill me in my sleep for saying this but:
1. You can easily convert the science lab into two classrooms. I don’t know where that flight simulator is, but maybe we should think about giving it to Arlington tech and converting that to a classroom.
2. They got rid of vpi so that’s a classroom for next year
3. You could put a trailer on the parking lot. I’d be supportive of that if it meant not touching the field space. I think that would likely deter people from transferring in too because it would make the school really freaking ugly.
That gets you pretty close to the right number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bless your heart. Not a troll. But Nottingham should go ahead and stand down and act like this is over. Ignoring the initiative served you really well so far. Moron.

If you think it’s so important for Nottingham to stay a neighborhood school, you can go ahead and take up that cause. You don’t have to a current Nottingham family to engage on the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


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Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

Ok so ms b will somehow figure out who I am and kill me in my sleep for saying this but:
1. You can easily convert the science lab into two classrooms. I don’t know where that flight simulator is, but maybe we should think about giving it to Arlington tech and converting that to a classroom.
2. They got rid of vpi so that’s a classroom for next year
3. You could put a trailer on the parking lot. I’d be supportive of that if it meant not touching the field space. I think that would likely deter people from transferring in too because it would make the school really freaking ugly.
That gets you pretty close to the right number.

No way is the science lab big enough for 2 classrooms and the classroom that the flight simulator used to be in is not big enough to be a regular classroom. I do think trailers could go on parking lot, however. Unfortunately that would really screw those of us who live in the neighborhood- not only are our children unable to attend but our streets would be filled with parked cars from the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


...

Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

Ok so ms b will somehow figure out who I am and kill me in my sleep for saying this but:
1. You can easily convert the science lab into two classrooms. I don’t know where that flight simulator is, but maybe we should think about giving it to Arlington tech and converting that to a classroom.
2. They got rid of vpi so that’s a classroom for next year
3. You could put a trailer on the parking lot. I’d be supportive of that if it meant not touching the field space. I think that would likely deter people from transferring in too because it would make the school really freaking ugly.
That gets you pretty close to the right number.

No way is the science lab big enough for 2 classrooms and the classroom that the flight simulator used to be in is not big enough to be a regular classroom. I do think trailers could go on parking lot, however. Unfortunately that would really screw those of us who live in the neighborhood- not only are our children unable to attend but our streets would be filled with parked cars from the school.

Plenty of schools are using undersized rooms as classrooms to deal with overcrowding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


...

Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

Ok so ms b will somehow figure out who I am and kill me in my sleep for saying this but:
1. You can easily convert the science lab into two classrooms. I don’t know where that flight simulator is, but maybe we should think about giving it to Arlington tech and converting that to a classroom.
2. They got rid of vpi so that’s a classroom for next year
3. You could put a trailer on the parking lot. I’d be supportive of that if it meant not touching the field space. I think that would likely deter people from transferring in too because it would make the school really freaking ugly.
That gets you pretty close to the right number.

No way is the science lab big enough for 2 classrooms and the classroom that the flight simulator used to be in is not big enough to be a regular classroom. I do think trailers could go on parking lot, however. Unfortunately that would really screw those of us who live in the neighborhood- not only are our children unable to attend but our streets would be filled with parked cars from the school.

Parking is already a huge mess.

I don’t think they will touch IS.

The simulator is in the computer room - do they need that room for tests, etc? That could be one classroom. VPI classroom. That can maybe hold them over for another year or two (assuming biggest growth is at K level).

They already use every square inch of that building I can’t see where else they’d add another whole classroom. Put a roof over the courtyard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


...

Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

Ok so ms b will somehow figure out who I am and kill me in my sleep for saying this but:
1. You can easily convert the science lab into two classrooms. I don’t know where that flight simulator is, but maybe we should think about giving it to Arlington tech and converting that to a classroom.
2. They got rid of vpi so that’s a classroom for next year
3. You could put a trailer on the parking lot. I’d be supportive of that if it meant not touching the field space. I think that would likely deter people from transferring in too because it would make the school really freaking ugly.
That gets you pretty close to the right number.

No way is the science lab big enough for 2 classrooms and the classroom that the flight simulator used to be in is not big enough to be a regular classroom. I do think trailers could go on parking lot, however. Unfortunately that would really screw those of us who live in the neighborhood- not only are our children unable to attend but our streets would be filled with parked cars from the school.

Plenty of schools are using undersized rooms as classrooms to deal with overcrowding.

Yes, kids at other schools have been in converted computer labs and other nonsense for years now. Internal modifications to max space are the first step, then trailers. I don't think they allow trailers on parking lots, though. Unless they close the lot to all parking. It's a safety issue. And transfers won't be allowed any longer. It's possible that current kids will be grandfathered in, but they may be sent to another school if there's a boundary change. There will be no new transfers allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


...

Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

Ok so ms b will somehow figure out who I am and kill me in my sleep for saying this but:
1. You can easily convert the science lab into two classrooms. I don’t know where that flight simulator is, but maybe we should think about giving it to Arlington tech and converting that to a classroom.
2. They got rid of vpi so that’s a classroom for next year
3. You could put a trailer on the parking lot. I’d be supportive of that if it meant not touching the field space. I think that would likely deter people from transferring in too because it would make the school really freaking ugly.
That gets you pretty close to the right number.

No way is the science lab big enough for 2 classrooms and the classroom that the flight simulator used to be in is not big enough to be a regular classroom. I do think trailers could go on parking lot, however. Unfortunately that would really screw those of us who live in the neighborhood- not only are our children unable to attend but our streets would be filled with parked cars from the school.

Plenty of schools are using undersized rooms as classrooms to deal with overcrowding.

Indeed. My son was in a small, windowless room for 2nd grade. He lived. He even managed to grow a few inches despite the lack of sunlight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ASFS changes will wait until Reed.

Except that APS got rid of the team model last year and ASFS can’t handle all the kids in the Key boundary. Even if they keep most of the boundary intact, APS will have to trim somewhere. Plus, how does ASFS backtrack from all its talk about reducing busing and every school having a walk zone? What are they going to say, sorry ASFS, in our strive to make everything equitable everyone gets a walk zone except you?


...

Sorry but this isnt true. For the next five years, there shouldn’t be more than an additional classroom per grade at asfs due to losing neighborhood preference at key. That is easily cancelled out by the number of transfers from Taylor, so it would be a wash once the current transfers age out.
They were predicting a huge increase in the population around key, I don’t know if they got better numbers to change that and maybe that’s what killed the urgency.

That is 5 extra classrooms they don’t have. Like I said earlier, they will add trailers to the play area and call it a day. Which is nuts.

Ok so ms b will somehow figure out who I am and kill me in my sleep for saying this but:
1. You can easily convert the science lab into two classrooms. I don’t know where that flight simulator is, but maybe we should think about giving it to Arlington tech and converting that to a classroom.
2. They got rid of vpi so that’s a classroom for next year
3. You could put a trailer on the parking lot. I’d be supportive of that if it meant not touching the field space. I think that would likely deter people from transferring in too because it would make the school really freaking ugly.
That gets you pretty close to the right number.

No way is the science lab big enough for 2 classrooms and the classroom that the flight simulator used to be in is not big enough to be a regular classroom. I do think trailers could go on parking lot, however. Unfortunately that would really screw those of us who live in the neighborhood- not only are our children unable to attend but our streets would be filled with parked cars from the school.

Plenty of schools are using undersized rooms as classrooms to deal with overcrowding.

Indeed. My son was in a small, windowless room for 2nd grade. He lived. He even managed to grow a few inches despite the lack of sunlight.

The flight simulator is in a room that could fit max 12-15 students on a regular basis and that’s it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No option schools moving, only new boundaries, maybe they'll revisit it before Reed opens in 2021.

LOL. At this rate there won't be any native speakers at key in a couple years. It's already 3:1 English applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No option schools moving, only new boundaries, maybe they'll revisit it before Reed opens in 2021.

LOL. At this rate there won't be any native speakers at key in a couple years. It's already 3:1 English applicants.

Did you see the part of the meeting where Reed asked why the acceptance numbers were so uneven when our model is supposed to be 50-50? Good times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No option schools moving, only new boundaries, maybe they'll revisit it before Reed opens in 2021.

LOL. At this rate there won't be any native speakers at key in a couple years. It's already 3:1 English applicants.

Did you see the part of the meeting where Reed asked why the acceptance numbers were so uneven when our model is supposed to be 50-50? Good times.

This is so dumb. Look at the census. Put the Spanish Immersion schools where the Spanish speakers live FFS, and trotting out four native speakers who do live near Key doesn't prove anything other than those four families live near Key. The data is the data.

If the rich white families living around Key don't want to slum it over in South Arlington, there will be others to take their place!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No option schools moving, only new boundaries, maybe they'll revisit it before Reed opens in 2021.

LOL. At this rate there won't be any native speakers at key in a couple years. It's already 3:1 English applicants.

Did you see the part of the meeting where Reed asked why the acceptance numbers were so uneven when our model is supposed to be 50-50? Good times.

This is so dumb. Look at the census. Put the Spanish Immersion schools where the Spanish speakers live FFS, and trotting out four native speakers who do live near Key doesn't prove anything other than those four families live near Key. The data is the data.

If the rich white families living around Key don't want to slum it over in South Arlington, there will be others to take their place!

This may be the right answer, but they need to get better data first to confirm it. After all, those Spanish-speaking families clustered along Columbia Pike near Carlin Springs are roughly a mile from Claremont as it is, and yet they're not applying to the program in droves. What about a move to Carlin Springs, still a mile away just in a different direction, would fundamentally change that?

[Anonymous]

My favorite part of this thread is all of the creative ways y'all are referencing the f word. I"m learning some things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No option schools moving, only new boundaries, maybe they'll revisit it before Reed opens in 2021.

LOL. At this rate there won't be any native speakers at key in a couple years. It's already 3:1 English applicants.

Did you see the part of the meeting where Reed asked why the acceptance numbers were so uneven when our model is supposed to be 50-50? Good times.

This is so dumb. Look at the census. Put the Spanish Immersion schools where the Spanish speakers live FFS, and trotting out four native speakers who do live near Key doesn't prove anything other than those four families live near Key. The data is the data.

If the rich white families living around Key don't want to slum it over in South Arlington, there will be others to take their place!

This may be the right answer, but they need to get better data first to confirm it. After all, those Spanish-speaking families clustered along Columbia Pike near Carlin Springs are roughly a mile from Claremont as it is, and yet they're not applying to the program in droves. What about a move to Carlin Springs, still a mile away just in a different direction, would fundamentally change that?

Right, because a lot of working class Spanish speaking immigrant families do NOT want their kids speaking Spanish in school. I shared this before, but my MIL's first language is Spanish and she refused to teach any of her kids Spanish because she wanted them to be as American as possible. I think it would be easy to send out a survey asking folks what their first language or household language is and then asking them if they would be interested in Spanish immersion.