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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

Distorting the facts really undermines your position. Last year when Cherrydale conceived the Buck expansion option no one was discussing boundaries. Cherrydale families were already in the school, so it makes no sense that they were "advocating expanding the space for themselves". When people moved to Cherrydale they had just as much of a right to attend the school as anyone else in the Team. Noah Simmon, former SB member, lived in Cherrydale and sent his kids to ASF, via the Team model. No one in Cherrydale ever advocated to have anyone moved out. A few cowardly psychotic misinformed people decided to get engaged last minute and demonize part of the school.

No Key zone was different than the other Teams, don’t distort things. Key had no non-Immersion option so were automatically accepted to ASFS.

Cherrydale wanted Buck b/c they were afraid they would be sent back to Taylor once Key was no longer had neighbor preference and ASFS population boomed.

Keep telling yourself that, but the facts do not support your position. Cherrydale was advocating for Buck before and AFTER the SB committed to "once you're in, you're in". No one is Cherrydale was or is concerned about being moved out. You are either ignorant of the facts or willfully distorting reality.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

Distorting the facts really undermines your position. Last year when Cherrydale conceived the Buck expansion option no one was discussing boundaries. Cherrydale families were already in the school, so it makes no sense that they were "advocating expanding the space for themselves". When people moved to Cherrydale they had just as much of a right to attend the school as anyone else in the Team. Noah Simmon, former SB member, lived in Cherrydale and sent his kids to ASF, via the Team model. No one in Cherrydale ever advocated to have anyone moved out. A few cowardly psychotic misinformed people decided to get engaged last minute and demonize part of the school.

No Key zone was different than the other Teams, don’t distort things. Key had no non-Immersion option so were automatically accepted to ASFS.

Cherrydale wanted Buck b/c they were afraid they would be sent back to Taylor once Key was no longer had neighbor preference and ASFS population boomed.

Keep telling yourself that, but the facts do not support your position. Cherrydale was advocating for Buck before and AFTER the SB committed to "once you're in, you're in". No one is Cherrydale was or is concerned about being moved out. You are either ignorant of the facts or willfully distorting reality.

What are you talking about "once you're in, you're in" -- you mean the promise by the SB member at a PTA member who was then voted out of office at the next election?

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

Distorting the facts really undermines your position. Last year when Cherrydale conceived the Buck expansion option no one was discussing boundaries. Cherrydale families were already in the school, so it makes no sense that they were "advocating expanding the space for themselves". When people moved to Cherrydale they had just as much of a right to attend the school as anyone else in the Team. Noah Simmon, former SB member, lived in Cherrydale and sent his kids to ASF, via the Team model. No one in Cherrydale ever advocated to have anyone moved out. A few cowardly psychotic misinformed people decided to get engaged last minute and demonize part of the school.

No Key zone was different than the other Teams, don’t distort things. Key had no non-Immersion option so were automatically accepted to ASFS.

Cherrydale wanted Buck b/c they were afraid they would be sent back to Taylor once Key was no longer had neighbor preference and ASFS population boomed.

Keep telling yourself that, but the facts do not support your position. Cherrydale was advocating for Buck before and AFTER the SB committed to "once you're in, you're in". No one is Cherrydale was or is concerned about being moved out. You are either ignorant of the facts or willfully distorting reality.

What are you talking about "once you're in, you're in" -- you mean the promise by the SB member at a PTA member who was then voted out of office at the next election?

Nope. The words of the SB chair and Superintendent during the options and transfers decision process. The same phrase that’s been reinforced multiple times recently by the current SB.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

Distorting the facts really undermines your position. Last year when Cherrydale conceived the Buck expansion option no one was discussing boundaries. Cherrydale families were already in the school, so it makes no sense that they were "advocating expanding the space for themselves". When people moved to Cherrydale they had just as much of a right to attend the school as anyone else in the Team. Noah Simmon, former SB member, lived in Cherrydale and sent his kids to ASF, via the Team model. No one in Cherrydale ever advocated to have anyone moved out. A few cowardly psychotic misinformed people decided to get engaged last minute and demonize part of the school.

No Key zone was different than the other Teams, don’t distort things. Key had no non-Immersion option so were automatically accepted to ASFS.

Cherrydale wanted Buck b/c they were afraid they would be sent back to Taylor once Key was no longer had neighbor preference and ASFS population boomed.

Keep telling yourself that, but the facts do not support your position. Cherrydale was advocating for Buck before and AFTER the SB committed to "once you're in, you're in". No one is Cherrydale was or is concerned about being moved out. You are either ignorant of the facts or willfully distorting reality.

What are you talking about "once you're in, you're in" -- you mean the promise by the SB member at a PTA member who was then voted out of office at the next election?

Nope. The words of the SB chair and Superintendent during the options and transfers decision process. The same phrase that’s been reinforced multiple times recently by the current SB.

Pretty sure those were talking about neighbor transfers to Key, not Team transfers at ASFS.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

I'm cool with the two phase approach. 2019 the Market Common neighborhood and the tip of Rosslyn and Rosslyn south of 50 move. 2021 the rest of the boundaries at the school are changed.

Is there a reason you are calling out those two neighborhoods as opposed to the parts of Courthouse that are not going to Stratford or the area north of lee highway that is surrounded by Taylor units?
There’s someone who seems very troll like who keeps mentioning the Market Commons and I’m trying to figure out if it’s an actual troll or a person with a grudge, or if it’s based on some logical thought.
The planning unit in Clarendon you are targeting is the one in the key zone that is closest to asfs, so it seems like a poor choice.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

I'm cool with the two phase approach. 2019 the Market Common neighborhood and the tip of Rosslyn and Rosslyn south of 50 move. 2021 the rest of the boundaries at the school are changed.

Is there a reason you are calling out those two neighborhoods as opposed to the parts of Courthouse that are not going to Stratford or the area north of lee highway that is surrounded by Taylor units?
There’s someone who seems very troll like who keeps mentioning the Market Commons and I’m trying to figure out if it’s an actual troll or a person with a grudge, or if it’s based on some logical thought.
The planning unit in Clarendon you are targeting is the one in the key zone that is closest to asfs, so it seems like a poor choice.

NP. Well the Courthouse PUs are CRAZY close to Key, so SB may not move them now in case Key becomes neighborhood school.

Moving any units to Taylor now means they can’t be move to either ASFS or Key for 2021 if end up with two neighborhood schools.

These southern PUs PP is calling out are adjacent to LB PUs, and depending on how Fleet shakes out LB may have some capacity. ASFS can be filled with Cherrydale, Lyon Village and some of the tail of Ashlawn, it’s not a crazy idea IF LB has space. It does hurt alignment b/c I think those PUs were just moved from Jefferson to Stratford to keep them with ASFS cohort, sonit might make sense to move back to Jefferson it becomes LB.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

Abusive language? What are even talking about? Telling someone to chill is abuse?

Look at the post it was responding to.

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Anonymous wrote:Those units are within a third mile of key though. They are 0.6 miles to asfs (closer than lv) and can’t walk to long branch due to having to cross Washington blvd. I would have thought that they would likely stay at asfs even if key became a neighborhood school.
Also since Taylor is undercapacity next year and will be even more so if you move 100 walk zone kids from it, don’t you have to move people back into Taylor? The units that keep getting mentioned have around 250 kids. I thought Long Branch didn’t have that much space.
Really trying to understand the reasoning here, because it seems like one poster has a grudge against that neighborhood since this is the third post mentioning it by name. There’s one person who lives in the homes next to Market Commons who’s a strong advocate, so I’m curious if this is just a grudge against her and her neighbors or if it’s based on logic.

Pretty sure they won’t move anything into Taylor b/c all of NW and NE maybe shuffled, so Taylor’s has space now, but if Jamestown or Nottingham goes option who knows. It’s just ties their hand for the big moves.

But LB won’t be on table in 2021 at all.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

Abusive language? What are even talking about? Telling someone to chill is abuse?

Look at the post it was responding to.

Um seriously, where is abusive language? Can you italicize?

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

+1

You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

Abusive language? What are even talking about? Telling someone to chill is abuse?

Look at the post it was responding to.

Um seriously, where is abusive language? Can you italicize?

No one is responsible for someone else’s (over)reaction. The Rosslyn people are responsible for their own behavior (as are the Cherrydale people). Trying to use the poor behavior of the Rosslyn community to keep Cherrydale under their thumb is inappropriate. Be better than that.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

Abusive language? What are even talking about? Telling someone to chill is abuse?

Look at the post it was responding to.

Um seriously, where is abusive language? Can you italicize?

No one is responsible for someone else’s (over)reaction. The Rosslyn people are responsible for their own behavior (as are the Cherrydale people). Trying to use the poor behavior of the Rosslyn community to keep Cherrydale under their thumb is inappropriate. Be better than that.

NP. Stating someone is reacting badly to someone else’s bad behavior is hardly abusive language.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

Abusive language? What are even talking about? Telling someone to chill is abuse?

Look at the post it was responding to.

Um seriously, where is abusive language? Can you italicize?

No one is responsible for someone else’s (over)reaction. The Rosslyn people are responsible for their own behavior (as are the Cherrydale people). Trying to use the poor behavior of the Rosslyn community to keep Cherrydale under their thumb is inappropriate. Be better than that.

NP. Stating someone is reacting badly to someone else’s bad behavior is hardly abusive language.

Okay, Rosslyn.

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If I may, I would respectfully submit that this discussion has gotten totally batshit all around. There is nothing of meaning for us to debate right now and yet we are wasting so many hours doing it. We don't know what the staff will come back with next month, let alone what the school board will do with that, but nothing that's we say here right now is going to make a whit of difference to it. Once there are new developments, sure, let's have a debate about them, but this, right now, is crazy making.

It's summer. This is the time all of the school stuff is supposed to get a little pause so we can enjoy the rest of our lives. So let's go do that. If you're at work, step out and get an iced coffee, text some friends to see if they're up for a cookout this weekend, or look into a cool family activity you haven't tried before. If you're home, go dig in your garden, read a book on your deck, or build some legos with your kids. I'm going to do the same. The next public step in this process is supposed to be a presentation from the staff at the August work session, which isn't even on the calendar yet, so we have at least a few weeks to do everything but debate this stuff, and we won't miss anything. It will keep.

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Anonymous wrote:Those units are within a third mile of key though. They are 0.6 miles to asfs (closer than lv) and can’t walk to long branch due to having to cross Washington blvd. I would have thought that they would likely stay at asfs even if key became a neighborhood school.
Also since Taylor is undercapacity next year and will be even more so if you move 100 walk zone kids from it, don’t you have to move people back into Taylor? The units that keep getting mentioned have around 250 kids. I thought Long Branch didn’t have that much space.
Really trying to understand the reasoning here, because it seems like one poster has a grudge against that neighborhood since this is the third post mentioning it by name. There’s one person who lives in the homes next to Market Commons who’s a strong advocate, so I’m curious if this is just a grudge against her and her neighbors or if it’s based on logic.

Pretty sure they won’t move anything into Taylor b/c all of NW and NE maybe shuffled, so Taylor’s has space now, but if Jamestown or Nottingham goes option who knows. It’s just ties their hand for the big moves.

But LB won’t be on table in 2021 at all.

The whole Market Commons comment is so petty. I'm an outsider watching and listening. Ridiculous. Don't try to use boundaries to settle a score. Maybe what happened was not great, but you're going to get your walkable school at some point, so CHILL.

They can't do anything at ASFS now if there's a remote possibility that Key becomes a neighborhood school. Most of the Market Commons area is in the Key "walk zone," and would be appropriately zoned there, but could not be if they were moved to LB now. LB is only losing a few PUs to Fleet, and it may be more appropriate to extend their boundary W rather than N should Key become a neighborhood school and should there be space to fill at LB.

Cool your jets. ASFS is being returned to Cherrydale, just not this year.

Lastly, the "if your in, you're in" comment from the Super does not apply when there is a boundary change. The comment was made in another context and should not be misconstrued. When ASFS gets a boundary, those no longer in the boudary will have to leave.

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Anonymous wrote:What's really interesting is that if you just read the comments in this thread without knowing what actually happened in the election, you get the impression the Cherrydale people flocked to the meeting to vote out Rosslyn people and get a Cherrydale-centered PTA board that would push for a walk zone. In reality, it appears that it was Rosslyn people who flocked to the meeting to vote out Cherrydale-area board members in favor of Rosslyn people.

A Cherrydale centered PTA with participants who did not have students attending the school.

Further, that Cherrydale focused PTA were lottery parents; do think of the Rosslyn PTA members were advocating to the school board to remove lottery families, there would not have been a similar response?

Isn't that what Rosslyn PTA members want to do now? From what I've read on this thread, they seem to hate them all and want them removed from the school?

Very likely that is what they want now, but its a response to the pre-emptive actions from Cherrydale community members making space for themselves at the expense of current Rosslyn students. A bit different; Rosslyn parents were part of the group recommending the Buck site, which is an inclusive approach to make space for all who want to attend their neighborhood school.

Absolutely incorrect. The whole Buck idea was originally thought of and advocated for those who live near the school. They were advocating to expand the school onto Buck last year during the Options and Transfer process, before the Rosslyn folks even understood what was going on. The fact is the Rosslyn/Courthosue crew is an angry and vindictive group who have said and done some really nasty things to several really good people. These same people who were ironically advocating for them. So sad.

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https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/Buck-May-3-Notes.pdf

Exactly they were advocating expanding the space for themselves — to accelerate the adoption of a walk zone. When that tied turned, it was the complaints about traffic and Rosslyn is already going on a bus, so send them to Taylor. We are just saying put the breaks on adding to an overcapacity school until 2021 when the system will have a clearer picture. If you add the Cherrydale walkzone, there isn’t space and someone has to be pushed out — do Cherrydale residents all hate Taylor this much to go to this lengths ; it isn’t like when they moved here they didn’t know the zoned school. Just be patient and chill.

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You will get your walkable school, Cherrydale. Can you just chill until we can all work it out?

You realize that your actions caused the (over)reaction from Rosslyn?

“Baby, I only hit you ‘cause you made me do it.”

Spousal abuse, what a tasteful and appropriate analogy

Don't use abusive language and people won't be able to call you out on it.

Abusive language? What are even talking about? Telling someone to chill is abuse?

Look at the post it was responding to.

Um seriously, where is abusive language? Can you italicize?

No one is responsible for someone else’s (over)reaction. The Rosslyn people are responsible for their own behavior (as are the Cherrydale people). Trying to use the poor behavior of the Rosslyn community to keep Cherrydale under their thumb is inappropriate. Be better than that.

I posted that comment. Both neighborhoods should be ashamed of their actions. Cherrydale did start the open hostility though so they get a little extra blame.

Pretty shitty way for you all to treat other parents in your own community.