APS: New petition in support of 4th Comprehensive High School option / Kenmore

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just looking over the JFAC documents and not only won't there be a school on the VHC site, but, I TOLD YOU SO GLEN CARLYN:

SR asked about affordable housing. It was explained it was a complementary use. She also asked about
group homes. SY suggested that would be a unique opportunity. JF showed the narrative section within
the use considerations & framework.

You're really going to wish you'd advocated for a school.

You need to link some shit. No idea WTF you are talking about.

I quoted from the meeting minutes of the last JFAC Carlin Springs subcommittee meeting:

https://arlingtonva.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/05/JFAC-Carlin-Spring-Subcommittee-4-Minutes_FINAL.pdf

Uses being discussed for this property are affordable housing and group homes.

Wow.
FUCK YOU GLEN CARLYN ( and Columbia Heights west... and Barcroft)
Xo,
Arlington county

[Anonymous]

This part of the minutes is crucial, especially the bolded:

Rodney Turner (RT) and SR both stated that the SWOC exercise did not seem to capture the future uses on the sites. JGriffin explained that the opportunities listed may start to address such future uses. The subcommittee members wanted to make certain it was captured.
RT reflected on the roundtable themes – general interest to purchase the property but that the community has a say for what comes next. SR suggested that the roundtable discussions were prior to the full breadth of information about the needs and the site characteristics. Future discussions will be necessary as the input was quite preliminary.
Steve Young (SY) asked how the questions raised during the roundtables would be addressed. JF explained that answers were being compiled in a comment matrix and it will be sent out to the commission.
JF reminded the subcommittee that there would be additional points for community feedback including the May 24 community forum.

It's time for concerned parties to make their voices heard!

[Anonymous]

I don't know. If this is really what the people in charge want, that means they are determined to hit their CAF's numbers come hell or high water. They truly have not one thought about secondary effects. I already live in a saturated part of town. Better them than me.
I've lived here since 2006. It took about 10 years, but I finally got the punch line.
It's the Arlington Way.

[Anonymous]

I've lived in Arlington 15 years and am ready to move back to DC. So tired of this shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know. If this is really what the people in charge want, that means they are determined to hit their CAF's numbers come hell or high water. They truly have not one thought about secondary effects. I already live in a saturated part of town. Better them than me.
I've lived here since 2006. It took about 10 years, but I finally got the punch line.
It's the Arlington Way.

What I don't get is that most of this housing is being targeted toward families, you know, with CHILDREN. Where are those kids supposed to go to school? Why are they doing this without first having the infrastructure in place to make sure that those they're trying to help are going to get the full benefit of APS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lived in Arlington 15 years and am ready to move back to DC. So tired of this shit.

+1

[Anonymous]

Then vote Fallon #1 and put Gutshall #4. We need younger voters to get out the the caucuses!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the options that would best serve Arlington aren't being offered. One option would be to open Kenmore as a 1300 seat choice school to start-- and put a choice program there that people actually want, not this "world languages" stuff-- and then turn it into a 2200 seat comprehensive high school in the future once a new middle school is built at VHC or somewhere else. Second option is to build out the Career Center into a real 2200 seat comprehensive science and technology high school like TJHS in Fairfax-- complete with its own extracurriculars so the kids don't have to return to WL, WF, and YT. It would not have space for a football team and a swim team, but we all know that enough Arlington parents would chomp at the bit to send their kids to a real science high school so I don't think there would be as much complaining about the trade-off if it came with state of the art labs and AP science classes. APS says they love choice schools, but those three options that were presented only included a choice school if you were fine with IB/World Languages at WL.

There aren't enough bright kids in APS for a real math/science magnet on par with TJ. It would just cannibalize HB and W-L.

Ding ding!
Fairfax county # of students - 186,000
Arlington county # of students - 26,000

stop allowing APS kids to go TJ and boost up Arl Tech resources. it should attract 70 TJ-isque students easy with APS student pool.

[Anonymous]

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I think the options that would best serve Arlington aren't being offered. One option would be to open Kenmore as a 1300 seat choice school to start-- and put a choice program there that people actually want, not this "world languages" stuff-- and then turn it into a 2200 seat comprehensive high school in the future once a new middle school is built at VHC or somewhere else. Second option is to build out the Career Center into a real 2200 seat comprehensive science and technology high school like TJHS in Fairfax-- complete with its own extracurriculars so the kids don't have to return to WL, WF, and YT. It would not have space for a football team and a swim team, but we all know that enough Arlington parents would chomp at the bit to send their kids to a real science high school so I don't think there would be as much complaining about the trade-off if it came with state of the art labs and AP science classes. APS says they love choice schools, but those three options that were presented only included a choice school if you were fine with IB/World Languages at WL.

There aren't enough bright kids in APS for a real math/science magnet on par with TJ. It would just cannibalize HB and W-L.

Ding ding!
Fairfax county # of students - 186,000
Arlington county # of students - 26,000

stop allowing APS kids to go TJ and boost up Arl Tech resources. it should attract 70 TJ-isque students easy with APS student pool.

Be careful what you wish for. Access to TJHS is a real draw to APS for many families. If they no longer had access, these families would either go private or move out of the county, and APS could well lose some of its best students. Its school rankings could plummet.

[Anonymous]

On TJ - that is ridiculous. Only a handful of kids go. If those families moved, there would be no noticeable impact. Those kids are already leaving the county for school. Make our schools a priority!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On TJ - that is ridiculous. Only a handful of kids go. If those families moved, there would be no noticeable impact. Those kids are already leaving the county for school. Make our schools a priority!

Agree - I already know people who leave Arlington to go to FFX to have their kids attend 'feeder' middle schools to TJ. The number of kids from Arlington accepted to TJ is so tiny, it's not even a draw to keep people in county.

The main draw to Arlington county is its close proximity to DC. Living outside the beltway, even a 1/2 mile outside the beltway, adds a lot of time to your commute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
On TJ - that is ridiculous. Only a handful of kids go. If those families moved, there would be no noticeable impact. Those kids are already leaving the county for school. Make our schools a priority!

Agree - I already know people who leave Arlington to go to FFX to have their kids attend 'feeder' middle schools to TJ. The number of kids from Arlington accepted to TJ is so tiny, it's not even a draw to keep people in county.

The main draw to Arlington county is its close proximity to DC. Living outside the beltway, even a 1/2 mile outside the beltway, adds a lot of time to your commute.

True....people who want the best schools for their kids go private or move to FFX.

[Anonymous]

There is a School Board work session this evening specifically addressing the 1300 high school seats.

https://www.apsva.us/school-board-meetings/school-board-work-sessions-meetings/

[Anonymous]

For Arlington Tech to offer what TJ does, it would have to have differential equations, numerical analysis, multivariate calculus etc. How would Arlington educate their mathematically gifted students other than send them to TJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For Arlington Tech to offer what TJ does, it would have to have differential equations, numerical analysis, multivariate calculus etc. How would Arlington educate their mathematically gifted students other than send them to TJ?

It's not planned to be as big as TJ so I doubt it would ever be able to offer the same range of classes as TJ but they do show offerings of differential equations, vector calculus, linear algebra in grade 11-12. Not sure how many kids will get to that level since they aren't requiring completion of geometry before 9th grade.

https://careercenter.apsva.us/arlington-tech/arlington-tech-proposed-schedule/