Where is Carlin Springs in all of this?

[Anonymous]

They were identified as a potential option site but you don’t see hysteria or any petitions out to save Carlin Springs. Is it just that they aren’t paying attention?

[Anonymous]

The population is 83% free and reduced lunch. I don’t think they have many parents who have free time to be outraged on the internet about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were identified as a potential option site but you don’t see hysteria or any petitions out to save Carlin Springs. Is it just that they aren’t paying attention?

Site for what?

[Anonymous]

I doubt they are just not paying attention. Fortunately since the engagement process involves at least two meetings between the staff and the principals of schools identified as strong candidates, there will be opportunities for their interests to be represented by someone who knows them and is invested in them, regardless of whether they can get a cheering section in matching shirts out to a board meeting.

[Anonymous]

Do you know if the meetings with the principals happen before or after an initial recommendation is made by the working group?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know if the meetings with the principals happen before or after an initial recommendation is made by the working group?

One meeting happened this past Wednesday, the next one is scheduled for April 26th.

[Anonymous]

Please.
If staff and SB and whoever else want to move it, change it, whatever... it’s a done deal.
If not, they’ll have Talento get emotional at the next meeting after having “listened” to community.
That dialogue will sound something like this:
“Do you want to have your community torn apart and have your children ostracized by the ice reporting young republicans of whateverschoolyourshippedto?”
“Umm we don’t want that”

Cue emotional outrage at meeting

Or not.

Either way, you haven’t heard anything because all the middle clsss families send their kids elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The population is 83% free and reduced lunch. I don’t think they have many parents who have free time to be outraged on the internet about this.

I hope everyone also realizes that if they are moved to the Campbell site they will basically become 100% free and reduced lunch. It’s appalling to have a school in APS at 83% already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The population is 83% free and reduced lunch. I don’t think they have many parents who have free time to be outraged on the internet about this.

I hope everyone also realizes that if they are moved to the Campbell site they will basically become 100% free and reduced lunch. It’s appalling to have a school in APS at 83% already.

Like anyone cares. They don't.

And what's this about speaking with "someone who knows them." Say what? How about GO to the school itself and speak with the parents! Anyone speaking "for" them should not be doing so, because who knows what agenda they might have. This school does not even have a PTA. It is outrageous that staff isn't planning to meet with parents there before making a decision. If they expect those parent to come to them, they are disenfranchising them.

[Anonymous]

I think one of the people working on draft recommendations lives in that neighborhood. Anyway one of the rumors floating around is moving Campbell to Claremont, Claremont to Carlin Springs, and making Campbell a neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think one of the people working on draft recommendations lives in that neighborhood. Anyway one of the rumors floating around is moving Campbell to Claremont, Claremont to Carlin Springs, and making Campbell a neighborhood school.

Why would they do that switch? Is there a problem that it would solve? I’m not familiar with the area and the issues.

[Anonymous]

Yes because Campbell has a large number if neighborhood kids in the walk zone. Who knows what is really going to happen... the docs and Board seem to want neighborhood schools in the 4 corners and maximize walk zoned and decreaese busing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The population is 83% free and reduced lunch. I don’t think they have many parents who have free time to be outraged on the internet about this.

I hope everyone also realizes that if they are moved to the Campbell site they will basically become 100% free and reduced lunch. It’s appalling to have a school in APS at 83% already.

Like anyone cares. They don't.

And what's this about speaking with "someone who knows them." Say what? How about GO to the school itself and speak with the parents! Anyone speaking "for" them should not be doing so, because who knows what agenda they might have. This school does not even have a PTA. It is outrageous that staff isn't planning to meet with parents there before making a decision. If they expect those parent to come to them, they are disenfranchising them.

Wow, did you just suggest that Eileen Delaney will sell out her students/families in her meetings with the staff?

I don't know about Carlin Springs, but at least a couple of the other schools on the short list did request to have the staff come meet with parents and were refused, the staff instead said they could choose a small group of parents to come meet with the staff at their office. It's not just a Carlin Springs thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The population is 83% free and reduced lunch. I don’t think they have many parents who have free time to be outraged on the internet about this.

I hope everyone also realizes that if they are moved to the Campbell site they will basically become 100% free and reduced lunch. It’s appalling to have a school in APS at 83% already.

Like anyone cares. They don't.

And what's this about speaking with "someone who knows them." Say what? How about GO to the school itself and speak with the parents! Anyone speaking "for" them should not be doing so, because who knows what agenda they might have. This school does not even have a PTA. It is outrageous that staff isn't planning to meet with parents there before making a decision. If they expect those parent to come to them, they are disenfranchising them.

Wow, did you just suggest that Eileen Delaney will sell out her students/families in her meetings with the staff?

I don't know about Carlin Springs, but at least a couple of the other schools on the short list did request to have the staff come meet with parents and were refused, the staff instead said they could choose a small group of parents to come meet with the staff at their office. It's not just a Carlin Springs thing.

I didn't mean the principal, of course. I meant more along the lines of a "community representative" who does not have a child at the school.

In any case, the meetings with princiapals are simply to gauge what would be needed **if** the schools were to move. That's how staff described these meeting to me. Not that a principal will report the sentiments of their community. For a community that doesn't engage in traditional Arlington processes, how else is staff supposed to hear from them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The population is 83% free and reduced lunch. I don’t think they have many parents who have free time to be outraged on the internet about this.

I hope everyone also realizes that if they are moved to the Campbell site they will basically become 100% free and reduced lunch. It’s appalling to have a school in APS at 83% already.

Like anyone cares. They don't.

And what's this about speaking with "someone who knows them." Say what? How about GO to the school itself and speak with the parents! Anyone speaking "for" them should not be doing so, because who knows what agenda they might have. This school does not even have a PTA. It is outrageous that staff isn't planning to meet with parents there before making a decision. If they expect those parent to come to them, they are disenfranchising them.

Wow, did you just suggest that Eileen Delaney will sell out her students/families in her meetings with the staff?

I don't know about Carlin Springs, but at least a couple of the other schools on the short list did request to have the staff come meet with parents and were refused, the staff instead said they could choose a small group of parents to come meet with the staff at their office. It's not just a Carlin Springs thing.

I didn't mean the principal, of course. I meant more along the lines of a "community representative" who does not have a child at the school.

In any case, the meetings with princiapals are simply to gauge what would be needed **if** the schools were to move. That's how staff described these meeting to me. Not that a principal will report the sentiments of their community. For a community that doesn't engage in traditional Arlington processes, how else is staff supposed to hear from them?

Understanding what would be required if a school were to change to implicitly goes to considerations of why it shouldn’t change. If part of what the community would need if a choice program moved to Campbell would be more engagement directly from APS to help parents understand what’s happening and get their kids enrolled in their new schools, increase ESOL/HILT resources at the schools those students would move to, solutions for particular transit concerns, etc., those things will become part of the “cost” of changing the school’s status.