APS Boundary tool--anyone get it to work yet?

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Anonymous wrote:They don't expect these issues, because they see no differences between the schools. All children will thrive at any arlington school. They all have excellent faculty Etc etc..
At least they were responsible enough to prioritize demographics.

And to the above poster who mentioned moving the same number of each group to each school- that won't work. You can't add more to a school that is at capacity.

Then they are really out of touch with their constituents. Because while I do not disagree that a student can get an excellent education at any of the three schools, there is an obvious and palpable sense within the general public (not south Arlington) that Wakefiled is inferior. And part of me is glad that they were witness to the way many regularly denigrate Wakefield and the students who attend. They need to address this, and it won't be by capitulating to those who feel they are "entitled" to something more because of a real estate transaction.

Jeez- just check out that Arlnow comments. Someone referred to Wakefield as " the unwashed masses" and the "people who work with their hands". It's bad yo.

I prefer the somewhat ironic tone of those comments to "drugs, gangs, and prostitution" which was heard last night.

say what now? Seriously, is that on the link? What the what? Are they saying those things are at Wakefield? ARE those things at Wakefield? No. really? No. really?

This was said at the meeting last night, a concern expressed by a parent. I don't have kids at Wakefield but have no reason to believe those things are true other than reputationally.

I thought I heard a Spanish-speaking woman say that through the interpreter last night. I don't know if she was making those comments herself or if she was responding to them--it was hard to hear the interpreter, and I wasn't there for the entire discussion that preceded it.

I'm the PP. I understand enough Spanish to believe she was saying she had heard those things. She was a W-L parent so I don't think she would have had firsthand knowledge but rather was expressing concerns. I found it not a little ironic, since I have to imagine her child or children fits within the stereotype that makes people believe those things about Wakefield in the first place.

Ugh. That sucks. I don't think this is true, but that's pretty bad if that is the reputation, even within the Latino community (although, I don't know that we can say that one parent speaks for anyone other than herself).

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Anonymous wrote:They don't expect these issues, because they see no differences between the schools. All children will thrive at any arlington school. They all have excellent faculty Etc etc..
At least they were responsible enough to prioritize demographics.

And to the above poster who mentioned moving the same number of each group to each school- that won't work. You can't add more to a school that is at capacity.

Then they are really out of touch with their constituents. Because while I do not disagree that a student can get an excellent education at any of the three schools, there is an obvious and palpable sense within the general public (not south Arlington) that Wakefiled is inferior. And part of me is glad that they were witness to the way many regularly denigrate Wakefield and the students who attend. They need to address this, and it won't be by capitulating to those who feel they are "entitled" to something more because of a real estate transaction.

Jeez- just check out that Arlnow comments. Someone referred to Wakefield as " the unwashed masses" and the "people who work with their hands". It's bad yo.

I prefer the somewhat ironic tone of those comments to "drugs, gangs, and prostitution" which was heard last night.

say what now? Seriously, is that on the link? What the what? Are they saying those things are at Wakefield? ARE those things at Wakefield? No. really? No. really?

This was said at the meeting last night, a concern expressed by a parent. I don't have kids at Wakefield but have no reason to believe those things are true other than reputationally.

I thought I heard a Spanish-speaking woman say that through the interpreter last night. I don't know if she was making those comments herself or if she was responding to them--it was hard to hear the interpreter, and I wasn't there for the entire discussion that preceded it.

I'm the PP. I understand enough Spanish to believe she was saying she had heard those things. She was a W-L parent so I don't think she would have had firsthand knowledge but rather was expressing concerns. I found it not a little ironic, since I have to imagine her child or children fits within the stereotype that makes people believe those things about Wakefield in the first place.

Ya know. When those Wakefield kids came by for tag day I thought, " drugs, gangs, and prostitution" that's what you're shaking me down for! Now get off my lawn, you epaulette flaunting ginger ( kid was a red head) and take that very adorable, but ethnically hard to pin down, girl-next-door chorister with you!

But leave an envelope, I'll write a check.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't expect these issues, because they see no differences between the schools. All children will thrive at any arlington school. They all have excellent faculty Etc etc..
At least they were responsible enough to prioritize demographics.

And to the above poster who mentioned moving the same number of each group to each school- that won't work. You can't add more to a school that is at capacity.

Then they are really out of touch with their constituents. Because while I do not disagree that a student can get an excellent education at any of the three schools, there is an obvious and palpable sense within the general public (not south Arlington) that Wakefiled is inferior. And part of me is glad that they were witness to the way many regularly denigrate Wakefield and the students who attend. They need to address this, and it won't be by capitulating to those who feel they are "entitled" to something more because of a real estate transaction.

Jeez- just check out that Arlnow comments. Someone referred to Wakefield as " the unwashed masses" and the "people who work with their hands". It's bad yo.

I prefer the somewhat ironic tone of those comments to "drugs, gangs, and prostitution" which was heard last night.

say what now? Seriously, is that on the link? What the what? Are they saying those things are at Wakefield? ARE those things at Wakefield? No. really? No. really?

This was said at the meeting last night, a concern expressed by a parent. I don't have kids at Wakefield but have no reason to believe those things are true other than reputationally.

I thought I heard a Spanish-speaking woman say that through the interpreter last night. I don't know if she was making those comments herself or if she was responding to them--it was hard to hear the interpreter, and I wasn't there for the entire discussion that preceded it.

I'm the PP. I understand enough Spanish to believe she was saying she had heard those things. She was a W-L parent so I don't think she would have had firsthand knowledge but rather was expressing concerns. I found it not a little ironic, since I have to imagine her child or children fits within the stereotype that makes people believe those things about Wakefield in the first place.

Thanks! Did you also hear the woman who said something about men exposing themselves? I could not follow what she was saying (through the interpreter) or what she was referring to with that comment.

If I remember correctly, there were some incidents, I believe around 4 mile run. How that is Wakefield's fault, I don't know.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

Let's hope Arlington Forest gets moved, because it's the right thing to do. And then you panic and sell your house and someone much cooler moves in. Toodles.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

Let's hope Arlington Forest gets moved, because it's the right thing to do. And then you panic and sell your house and someone much cooler moves in. Toodles.

Doesn't effect me, sadly I'll see you at W-L.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

Np- hey dummy! The county has shown their hand. It gonna be about proximity, it's about demographics- so suck it sucka.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

Let's hope Arlington Forest gets moved, because it's the right thing to do. And then you panic and sell your house and someone much cooler moves in. Toodles.

Doesn't effect me, sadly I'll see you at W-L.

It doesn't affect you? Okay then, Neal. I guess you're just an asshole in principle? Got it. Keep up the good work.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

"Oh, if only 250 families had of their own accord just up and decided to send their high schoolers to some other school than the one they are assigned to! Any other school! Then this wouldn't be happening to meeeeeeeeee."

Do you believe in unicorns too?

I am playing the world's smallest violin for you.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't expect these issues, because they see no differences between the schools. All children will thrive at any arlington school. They all have excellent faculty Etc etc..
At least they were responsible enough to prioritize demographics.

And to the above poster who mentioned moving the same number of each group to each school- that won't work. You can't add more to a school that is at capacity.

Then they are really out of touch with their constituents. Because while I do not disagree that a student can get an excellent education at any of the three schools, there is an obvious and palpable sense within the general public (not south Arlington) that Wakefiled is inferior. And part of me is glad that they were witness to the way many regularly denigrate Wakefield and the students who attend. They need to address this, and it won't be by capitulating to those who feel they are "entitled" to something more because of a real estate transaction.

Jeez- just check out that Arlnow comments. Someone referred to Wakefield as " the unwashed masses" and the "people who work with their hands". It's bad yo.

I prefer the somewhat ironic tone of those comments to "drugs, gangs, and prostitution" which was heard last night.

say what now? Seriously, is that on the link? What the what? Are they saying those things are at Wakefield? ARE those things at Wakefield? No. really? No. really?

This was said at the meeting last night, a concern expressed by a parent. I don't have kids at Wakefield but have no reason to believe those things are true other than reputationally.

I thought I heard a Spanish-speaking woman say that through the interpreter last night. I don't know if she was making those comments herself or if she was responding to them--it was hard to hear the interpreter, and I wasn't there for the entire discussion that preceded it.

I'm the PP. I understand enough Spanish to believe she was saying she had heard those things. She was a W-L parent so I don't think she would have had firsthand knowledge but rather was expressing concerns. I found it not a little ironic, since I have to imagine her child or children fits within the stereotype that makes people believe those things about Wakefield in the first place.

Thanks! Did you also hear the woman who said something about men exposing themselves? I could not follow what she was saying (through the interpreter) or what she was referring to with that comment.

If I remember correctly, there were some incidents, I believe around 4 mile run. How that is Wakefield's fault, I don't know.

There was also an incident of a man exposing himself to a student in the W-L parking garage a few years back. Guess people should be glad they are being reassigned.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

Let's hope Arlington Forest gets moved, because it's the right thing to do. And then you panic and sell your house and someone much cooler moves in. Toodles.

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

What premium are you talking about? When I look at recent sales in Arlington Forest, I don't see that much of a difference in prices between those north of Rt. 50 and those south of it. What am I missing?

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Anonymous wrote:Soooo... western Pike isn't moving to Wakefield and Arlington Forest is?

That's one of 3 options. Nothing is decided yet. In no option does the Western Pike move to Wakefield.

I'm pretty sure the Arlington Forest PUs were only included to make it seem like APS was trying to be fair. They can't chose all the PUs from south of 50. That might raise some eyebrows. Arlington Forest isn't actually going to move. Please.

I agree. It would be politically very hard for them to go with this option (B) based on the reaction I saw tonight. One of the criticisms the AF parents repeatedly said is that there was no explanation provided for why these scenarios were chosen out of the hundreds of options. But I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that they had to have at least one option including PLs north of Route 50. Just to say that they did.

God knows we wouldn't want them to do anything hard.

The Arlington Forest option moves the fewest number of FARMS kids to Wakefield. That's the responsible choice.

That's a relief, I thought there were more than 250 of you whacko whimpering turds. Phew.


And will you be sending your kids to Wakefield? It would be great if you'd do your part for the greater good of the County. That goes for most of you posters who are so willing to send other people's kids where they don't want them to go.

This is such bullshit. You don't know where I send my kids. And wherever it is, I could volunteer to send them somewhere else tomorrow, and that will do virtually nothing to solve this problem. So please stop with this ridiculous rhetoric.

Some planning units are getting moved, and in those units there will be some people, maybe many people, who will have to send their kids where they don't want them to go. This will be true no matter which planning units are chosen. What about that isn't clear to you?

No, I don't and frankly, I don't care. You've proved my point. The point is that it's clear that many of you phonies opted to not transfer to Wakefield when the opportunity was available to you. Maybe you have delusions that the Wakefield experience is on par with W-L, but clearly many folks disagree with you, and many others are breathing a sigh of relief. Now, if you'd done us the favor and transferred to Wakefield, maybe the refinement issue wouldn't have been such a big deal. What's bullshit is that you and most of these other posters are advocating that Arlington Forest draw the short straw because, why, it's not good enough for kids who live a half mile from Wakefield. These families didn't pay a premium to attend Wakefield. Let's hope proximity reigns supreme.

"Oh, if only 250 families had of their own accord just up and decided to send their high schoolers to some other school than the one they are assigned to! Any other school! Then this wouldn't be happening to meeeeeeeeee."

Do you believe in unicorns too?

I am playing the world's smallest violin for you.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't expect these issues, because they see no differences between the schools. All children will thrive at any arlington school. They all have excellent faculty Etc etc..
At least they were responsible enough to prioritize demographics.

And to the above poster who mentioned moving the same number of each group to each school- that won't work. You can't add more to a school that is at capacity.

Then they are really out of touch with their constituents. Because while I do not disagree that a student can get an excellent education at any of the three schools, there is an obvious and palpable sense within the general public (not south Arlington) that Wakefiled is inferior. And part of me is glad that they were witness to the way many regularly denigrate Wakefield and the students who attend. They need to address this, and it won't be by capitulating to those who feel they are "entitled" to something more because of a real estate transaction.

Jeez- just check out that Arlnow comments. Someone referred to Wakefield as " the unwashed masses" and the "people who work with their hands". It's bad yo.

I prefer the somewhat ironic tone of those comments to "drugs, gangs, and prostitution" which was heard last night.

say what now? Seriously, is that on the link? What the what? Are they saying those things are at Wakefield? ARE those things at Wakefield? No. really? No. really?

This was said at the meeting last night, a concern expressed by a parent. I don't have kids at Wakefield but have no reason to believe those things are true other than reputationally.

I thought I heard a Spanish-speaking woman say that through the interpreter last night. I don't know if she was making those comments herself or if she was responding to them--it was hard to hear the interpreter, and I wasn't there for the entire discussion that preceded it.

I'm the PP. I understand enough Spanish to believe she was saying she had heard those things. She was a W-L parent so I don't think she would have had firsthand knowledge but rather was expressing concerns. I found it not a little ironic, since I have to imagine her child or children fits within the stereotype that makes people believe those things about Wakefield in the first place.

Thanks! Did you also hear the woman who said something about men exposing themselves? I could not follow what she was saying (through the interpreter) or what she was referring to with that comment.

Yes that was more about the neighborhood in terms of kids having to walk to Wakefield and keeping them safe. Something about a girl getting stabbed too. Not familiar with the incidents, but I assume they took place somewhere along Columbia pike or otherwise between where she lived and Wakefield.

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You guys. Neal worked really hard to get where he got. He had to make his way, when the head of his household was a minority! He had to push through in an almost entirely impoverished school! He's exceptional god damn it!
And what he learned along the way?
In order to be a winner, someone's got to be the loser. So, it won't be enough for his kids to thrive in a north Arlington school, your south Arlington kid has to fail. So, make sure you vote early and often. Ship the rest of those poors around western Columbia Pike off to Wakefield. Chuckle chuckle.
Neal learned that no one can do it for you. You have to do it for yourself. So, pull that ladder up behind you. If they want it, they can work for it like he did. Isn't that for the best? A third of the county's students learning what Neal learned. Growing up to be just like Neal