ACPS Redistricting Letters

[Anonymous]

So, on Friday, ACPS mailed 'eviction' letters to those families with a child in a school they're not currently zoned for. All Admin transfers w/o an older sibling must leave their current school at the end of this year. Programmatic transfers are, inexplicably, permitted to stay.

How can they be sending these letters out when the 'retrofit school' has yet to be approved for academic use and they don't even have a principal?

Isn't the implementation of the redistricting contingent on the new west end school? If not, this is simply moving deck chairs around on the Titanic. Nothing is accomplished.

How can this actually be occurring?

[Anonymous]

Wow! I would expect something like that in FCPS where we are. But, not other systems.

[Anonymous]

It was known this was going to occur since last year. It's worth appealing because the squeaky wheel really does apply in the ACPS system.

[Anonymous]

OP, were you asleep the past 12 months? This should not be news to you. This plan was approved last March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, were you asleep the past 12 months? This should not be news to you. This plan was approved last March.

The grandfathering rule isn't new to me. It's absurd, but not new. What's new is the continued implementation while other pieces of the process have collapsed- like the west end school and the new principal.

What's the point of doing this if the promise of new capacity isn't honored? Kicking my second grader out of her school and forcing her to another one accomplishes nothing. They're just shifting kids at that point.

[Anonymous]

What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.

If you're neighbor has only one kid and she received an administrative transfer, then she gets to stay in her school regardless of what grade she's in. There's a distinction between an "administrative transfer" and "sibling of an administrative transfer". The siblings only get to stay until the child with the transfer graduates from the school. But any child who received a transfer directly (not from being a sibling), gets to stay regardless of grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.

If you're neighbor has only one kid and she received an administrative transfer, then she gets to stay in her school regardless of what grade she's in. There's a distinction between an "administrative transfer" and "sibling of an administrative transfer". The siblings only get to stay until the child with the transfer graduates from the school. But any child who received a transfer directly (not from being a sibling), gets to stay regardless of grade.

But doesn't that directly contradict what the OP said just happened to her? That her kid with an administrative transfer has to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.

If you're neighbor has only one kid and she received an administrative transfer, then she gets to stay in her school regardless of what grade she's in. There's a distinction between an "administrative transfer" and "sibling of an administrative transfer". The siblings only get to stay until the child with the transfer graduates from the school. But any child who received a transfer directly (not from being a sibling), gets to stay regardless of grade.

Does it really matter what construct the school board created that fostered the disparate treatment of next door neighbors? "Sorry, Billy has a blue pass, so he has to leave. Susie has a yellow one, so she gets to stay.

What matters is that taxpayers are getting treated differently by ACPS. No one can argue that that's OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.

You created a situation where you live in a neighborhood where no one wants to go to their zoned school. It was just some good luck in that situation that you and your neighbor were transferred to the same school outside of your zoned school in the first place. Not always the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.

You created a situation where you live in a neighborhood where no one wants to go to their zoned school. It was just some good luck in that situation that you and your neighbor were transferred to the same school outside of your zoned school in the first place. Not always the case.

Umm, I didn't create anything. ACPS offers a variety of transfers to families that seek them. I took advantage of that offer and now theyre trying to change the rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers? They all move?

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.

If you're neighbor has only one kid and she received an administrative transfer, then she gets to stay in her school regardless of what grade she's in. There's a distinction between an "administrative transfer" and "sibling of an administrative transfer". The siblings only get to stay until the child with the transfer graduates from the school. But any child who received a transfer directly (not from being a sibling), gets to stay regardless of grade.

Does it really matter what construct the school board created that fostered the disparate treatment of next door neighbors? "Sorry, Billy has a blue pass, so he has to leave. Susie has a yellow one, so she gets to stay.

What matters is that taxpayers are getting treated differently by ACPS. No one can argue that that's OK.

But that didn't bother you when you were on the positive end of the unfair treatment. What about all the kids left at the school you didn't want to go to while you got an "administrative transfer"?

That was ACPS's mistake. Ever allowing these transfers that -let's just call it what it is- are transfers for the well-off white people who knew enough to game the system. They just have to rip the Band-Aid off and be done with it.

[Anonymous]

All Admin transfers w/o an older sibling must leave their current school at the end of this year. Programmatic transfers are, inexplicably, permitted to stay.

This is simply not true, you have misunderstood the letter or misunderstand what an administrative transfer is/means. See this link: https://www.acps.k12.va.us/cms/lib/VA01918616/Centricity/Shared/documents/school-board-policies/jce-r.pdf. If the child has a previously-approved admin transfer, they will not be required to move. This conforms with the information that we got in the mail from my child's school (Maury).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

That was ACPS's mistake. Ever allowing these transfers that -let's just call it what it is- are transfers for the well-off white people who knew enough to game the system. They just have to rip the Band-Aid off and be done with it.

YUP