APS Boundary tool--anyone get it to work yet?

[Anonymous]

I went to the meeting. Arlington Forest parents were not happy, to put it mildly. Funny how the Yorktown side was very quiet--no one complaining about moving there! (My PL was not in any of the scenarios).

Also, after talking with several ppl at APS and the school board, I'm convinced we will not get a 4th high school. Mark my words--we're going to get 3-4 specialty programs sprinkled through the county of 300-500 students each, all lottery/application, to make up this 1300+ deficit. That way APS doesn't have to do any more rezoning of PLs. That is my guess and my prediction.

It's not going to happen, folks.

[Anonymous]

Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

In one option, one of the western pike PLs goes to Wakefield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to the meeting. Arlington Forest parents were not happy, to put it mildly. Funny how the Yorktown side was very quiet--no one complaining about moving there! (My PL was not in any of the scenarios).

Also, after talking with several ppl at APS and the school board, I'm convinced we will not get a 4th high school. Mark my words--we're going to get 3-4 specialty programs sprinkled through the county of 300-500 students each, all lottery/application, to make up this 1300+ deficit. That way APS doesn't have to do any more rezoning of PLs. That is my guess and my prediction.

It's not going to happen, folks.

This is exactly correct. The next new one will be at the Ed Center building, the "program" TBD. They have no interest in going through these boundary shenanigans again in just a few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to the meeting. Arlington Forest parents were not happy, to put it mildly. Funny how the Yorktown side was very quiet--no one complaining about moving there! (My PL was not in any of the scenarios).

Also, after talking with several ppl at APS and the school board, I'm convinced we will not get a 4th high school. Mark my words--we're going to get 3-4 specialty programs sprinkled through the county of 300-500 students each, all lottery/application, to make up this 1300+ deficit. That way APS doesn't have to do any more rezoning of PLs. That is my guess and my prediction.

It's not going to happen, folks.

How many poor kids will end up jammed into the ed center? What happens when the arlington tech thing fails to take off like they are predicting so in 2022 our hs kids are even more screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wakefield
option 1
4612, 4614, 4828

option 2
1201, 1202, 1203

option 3
3706,4611,4612, 4691

Yorktown
opt 1
1302, 1303, 3501, 3502,3503

opt 2
1502, 2312, 2313,2314

opt 3
1304, 1410

Are these just the options for year 1, with more planning units to be added? It doesn't seem like these options move enough kids.

Also, did you notice the APS has taken the boundary tool offline, so you can no longer easily see where these units are, how many students these options move, and what the demographics look like. Unbelievable.

I vote for option 2 for Wakefield and option 1 for Yorktown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

"Why me?!?! Why meeeeeeeeeee?!?!?!?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

"Why me?!?! Why meeeeeeeeeee?!?!?!?"

I felt sorry for the woman bearing the brunt of their "questions."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

Unless you live in Arlington Forest. I won't be voting for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wakefield
option 1
4612, 4614, 4828

option 2
1201, 1202, 1203

option 3
3706,4611,4612, 4691

Yorktown
opt 1
1302, 1303, 3501, 3502,3503

opt 2
1502, 2312, 2313,2314

opt 3
1304, 1410

Are these just the options for year 1, with more planning units to be added? It doesn't seem like these options move enough kids.

Also, did you notice the APS has taken the boundary tool offline, so you can no longer easily see where these units are, how many students these options move, and what the demographics look like. Unbelievable.

I vote for option 2 for Wakefield and option 1 for Yorktown.

You must live in 22205 or 22207. It's easy to sell someone else down the river.

A lot of the Arlington Forest families (ours included) really want to stay at W-L because it's walking distance for some and a safe short bike ride for others. Walk zone is especially critical for high schoolers who have after school activities and probably don't have cars. Wakefield is unwalkable and also there is no safe bike route. Families in AF willingly send kids to Barrett and Kenmore and aren't afraid of diversity, but most of those with kids old enough to be affected now or soon have lived in the neighborhood 10, 12, 15 years and many bought homes on the north side specifically so they could feed into W-L, which has enjoyed a strong reputation for decades. All the talk about "keeping the neighborhood" together is nonsense because it's one neighborhood in name only. Kids on the south side are zoned for Barcroft and Wakefield so the only overlap 3 years (out of 13) at Kenmore. Yes, there is one civic association, but they obviously don't speak for everyone, at least not on this issue.