The demise of McKinley ES (APS)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen some of these accusations about APS employees from McKinley parents on our listserve. It's really pretty awful.

You raise a great point about option schools drawing disproportionately from their surrounding schools. Should really be the response to these "Save McKinley" types who claim there aren't going to be enough empty seats at Ashlawn and Reed to make sure they never have to experience overcrowding (a very selfish argument, if you ask me--since much of the county is past that point). But I digress. The point is, won't putting ATS there mean that Reed neighborhood families may be more likely to enroll in ATS than before. And therefore, there will be enough empty seats to satisfy them?

Serious question - I thought McKinley, Ashlawn, and Glebe were some of the most overcrowded schools. They are definitely more overcrowded than most of the NA schools. Are many schools more overcrowded than those three?

Part of the reason they are overcrowded is because Ashlawn is particular pulls a significant portion of it's student body from well east of its neighborhood - the zone extends past ASFS. If Key becomes a neighborhood school, that will free up more seats in the east to take those students, which frees up additional capacity in the western portions of the county. Also, across the three schools they're what, something like 200 students over capacity? You put 725 extra seats in an area that needs less than 200 (after some move to neighborhood schools in the east), and you have an overcapacity problem.

[Anonymous]

I wish APS would hire a completely disinterested party to just do the math based on unbiased enrollment projections and have them propose boundaries without emotional baggage. They could draw up 2 or 3 maps that would incorporate and/or omit possible option moves. There is a lot of distrust for staff projections and proposals at this point, but there must be someone out there who is trained to solve this kind of numbers puzzle whom we could hire, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish APS would hire a completely disinterested party to just do the math based on unbiased enrollment projections and have them propose boundaries without emotional baggage. They could draw up 2 or 3 maps that would incorporate and/or omit possible option moves. There is a lot of distrust for staff projections and proposals at this point, but there must be someone out there who is trained to solve this kind of numbers puzzle whom we could hire, right?

Those really awful projections for the Discovery boundaries were produced by an outside consultant, so I don’t know why people assume a consultant would be better predicting the future than the staff is. It’s not exactly a precise science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish APS would hire a completely disinterested party to just do the math based on unbiased enrollment projections and have them propose boundaries without emotional baggage. They could draw up 2 or 3 maps that would incorporate and/or omit possible option moves. There is a lot of distrust for staff projections and proposals at this point, but there must be someone out there who is trained to solve this kind of numbers puzzle whom we could hire, right?

Those really awful projections for the Discovery boundaries were produced by an outside consultant, so I don’t know why people assume a consultant would be better predicting the future than the staff is. It’s not exactly a precise science.

Right. People move. People go to or leave private. Arlington is full of parents who think they know better than everyone else when it comes to school related issues. If they don't like the APS decision, there must have been something sinister going on behind the scenes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish APS would hire a completely disinterested party to just do the math based on unbiased enrollment projections and have them propose boundaries without emotional baggage. They could draw up 2 or 3 maps that would incorporate and/or omit possible option moves. There is a lot of distrust for staff projections and proposals at this point, but there must be someone out there who is trained to solve this kind of numbers puzzle whom we could hire, right?

Those really awful projections for the Discovery boundaries were produced by an outside consultant, so I don’t know why people assume a consultant would be better predicting the future than the staff is. It’s not exactly a precise science.

Right. People move. People go to or leave private. Arlington is full of parents who think they know better than everyone else when it comes to school related issues. If they don't like the APS decision, there must have been something sinister going on behind the scenes.

+1. There are an awful lot of spoiled, pampered parents in APS who cannot conceive of not getting exactly what they want all the time. Not being the most special person in the room is incomprehensible to them.

[Anonymous]

For all the swearing up and down that they don’t oppose the McKinley move, some of those parents on Nextdoor certainly are busy little bees, crunching numbers, looking at data, raising their voices.

What a coincidence that those motivated parents, doing that work “on behalf of all of Arlington” just happen to live in the current McKinley zone.

“Pshaw- our kids move ALL THE TIME. This is not about that. It’s about what’s good for everyone!”

Yeah. Makes sense.

[Anonymous]

You what will never demise? This thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish APS would hire a completely disinterested party to just do the math based on unbiased enrollment projections and have them propose boundaries without emotional baggage. They could draw up 2 or 3 maps that would incorporate and/or omit possible option moves. There is a lot of distrust for staff projections and proposals at this point, but there must be someone out there who is trained to solve this kind of numbers puzzle whom we could hire, right?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You what will never demise? This thread.

Why don't you like this thread? If you don't like it, why post?

I am very curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You what will never demise? This thread.

Grammar atrocities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You what will never demise? This thread.

Grammar atrocities?

bad texting?
bad voice to text?
drunk posting?

I hope not. They all bring me joy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You what will never demise? This thread.

Grammar atrocities?

Sigh, sadly my joke is being attack by English majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You what will never demise? This thread.

Grammar atrocities?

bad texting?
bad voice to text?
drunk posting?

I hope not. They all bring me joy.

Hahaha, yeah bad texting

You know what will never demise...

Damn, fumbled the delivery.