APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and the Key speakers of course entirely lack data. They criticize APS's data, and just argue with platitudes. e.g. 'most of our Spanish speakers don't have cars and walk or use public transit to get their kids to school.' that is a total lie- as is clear from the APS Go survey.

Why be accurate when you can just claim to be on the side of social justice instead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The McKinley speakers are coming across as really arrogant.

seriously- the 'we know that we are smarter than your staff- whose job is to do this' is breathtakingly arrogant.

Not a McK parent here, but the Arlington parents are often better at this than the staff! If you have been around for a decade you know how many errors staff have made. And often parents pointed out the errors to them. Wines staff responded and sometimes staff ignored it and then acted surprised when the parent forecasted event occurred. Including McKinley being over crowded even after the addition.

[Anonymous]

What zone 1 and 2 from mcproposal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The McKinley speakers are coming across as really arrogant.

seriously- the 'we know that we are smarter than your staff- whose job is to do this' is breathtakingly arrogant.

Not a McK parent here, but the Arlington parents are often better at this than the staff! If you have been around for a decade you know how many errors staff have made. And often parents pointed out the errors to them. Wines staff responded and sometimes staff ignored it and then acted surprised when the parent forecasted event occurred. Including McKinley being over crowded even after the addition.

And yet when Nottingham was pointing out obvious errors in the analysis two years ago, they were mocked mercilessly for it, especially by McKinley parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The McKinley speakers are coming across as really arrogant.

seriously- the 'we know that we are smarter than your staff- whose job is to do this' is breathtakingly arrogant.

Not a McK parent here, but the Arlington parents are often better at this than the staff! If you have been around for a decade you know how many errors staff have made. And often parents pointed out the errors to them. Wines staff responded and sometimes staff ignored it and then acted surprised when the parent forecasted event occurred. Including McKinley being over crowded even after the addition.

McKinley over crowding I thought was from consultant? But yeah point at errors in proposal, but guessing and being right doesn’t count.

The mcproposal seems to be ‘what if you tried any other school than McKinely’.

[Anonymous]

Is this the new Option 3? The one that took hundreds of hours and everyone will love?

[Anonymous]

Which McKinley parent has McKrazy bound and gagged in their basement so she couldn’t come out tonight?

[Anonymous]

the last speaker may need armed protection to get home- he showed real courage (more than I have).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the last speaker may need armed protection to get home- he showed real courage (more than I have).

Yeah, I was surprised and impressed. He did say his kids are FORMER Key students.

[Anonymous]

We did summer camp at MCKinley and I have to say it was kind of a weird out of the way location. I’m really surprised it’s being pitched as a good option school site. It’s basically super inconvenient if you don’t live right there. And no, I’m not an ATS or McKinley parent. It’s just not a place that’s convenient to anything else if it’s not your immediate neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did summer camp at MCKinley and I have to say it was kind of a weird out of the way location. I’m really surprised it’s being pitched as a good option school site. It’s basically super inconvenient if you don’t live right there. And no, I’m not an ATS or McKinley parent. It’s just not a place that’s convenient to anything else if it’s not your immediate neighborhood.

Another great reason for McKinley to be an option school. Parents will have a choice to go there (or not).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the last speaker may need armed protection to get home- he showed real courage (more than I have).

Yeah, I was surprised and impressed. He did say his kids are FORMER Key students.

yes- but he is an uber immersion booster. Active in immersion issues across the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this the new Option 3? The one that took hundreds of hours and everyone will love?

It works great for most of Arlington. What is the best way to submit it to APS?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to understand why Key thinks it is compelling that not that many Lyon Village families are interested in attending an immersion school at ATS. Of course they are more likely to consider immersion if it is closer to them. But if they choose not to- so what? APS isn't counting on Lyon Village opting for immersion, they are considering future Lyon Village families as needing neighborhood seats.

[Anonymous]

I am not a Key parent, but I thought APS needs seats at Key because of all the new affordable housing the county just approved. So if most of Key doesn’t follow to ATS, doesn’t that still leave APS without enough seat in that area? The only way to remove that uncertainty is to leave every school where it is and draw boundaries. Broaden the walk zone to the full mile allowed under APS policy instead of 1/2 mile used today if you want to reduce bus costs.