Superintendent is pretty much recommending McKinley PTA map--

[Anonymous]

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/BV2JUN4E6961/$file/F-1%20Fall%202020%20Elementary%20Boundary%20Process%20-%20Presentation.pdf

keeps all of McKinley except 3 PU's that peel off to Ashlawn. The only Tuckahoe PU moved is the one that has Reed in its boundaries.

[Anonymous]

That is why they suddenly named Reed "McKinley at Reed". Whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:That is why they suddenly named Reed "McKinley at Reed". Whatever.

Definitely no. They started that last spring since it means they don't have to accredit Reed as a new school if they can spin it as simply transferring McKinley to a new building. Has zero to do with these maps.

The SB vote was to shut McKinley and open a new school at Reed, but communications-wise the APS staff started this McKinley-as-Reed thing six months ago.

[Anonymous]

This isn't the McKinley PTA map at all. That was Option B. This attempts to do a better job balancing capacity at Glebe and Ashlawn though there are still capacity imbalances, even more so county-wide.

[Anonymous]

This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

[Anonymous]

Well it definitely shares DNA with crazy loopy boundaries to keep loud parents happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

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Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

Seriously? WTH is up with that? It just looks ridiculous. If they were so fearful of change, why didn't they just let the kids there stay at Taylor who wanted to do so but draw a normal boundary for the rest of the people who can walk to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

Seriously? WTH is up with that? It just looks ridiculous. If they were so fearful of change, why didn't they just let the kids there stay at Taylor who wanted to do so but draw a normal boundary for the rest of the people who can walk to school?

I think they are worried about moving kids in a way that leaves Taylor empty and ASFS and new Key overfull. They didn't move anything to ASFS that they aren't sure they want there long term. The PUs on the right side of the peninsula were already at ASFS so leaving them there is status quo and they can be moved in 2 years if necessary. The ones in the peninsula are at Taylor right now so if they moved them to ASFS they can't touch them again for 5 years. I agree it looks ridiculous and I'm not sure if it's the best plan, but that's why.

[Anonymous]

It mentions another boundary process 2022. Is the idea that the process would start in 2022 and implemented in 2023?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

Seriously? WTH is up with that? It just looks ridiculous. If they were so fearful of change, why didn't they just let the kids there stay at Taylor who wanted to do so but draw a normal boundary for the rest of the people who can walk to school?

I think they are worried about moving kids in a way that leaves Taylor empty and ASFS and new Key overfull. They didn't move anything to ASFS that they aren't sure they want there long term. The PUs on the right side of the peninsula were already at ASFS so leaving them there is status quo and they can be moved in 2 years if necessary. The ones in the peninsula are at Taylor right now so if they moved them to ASFS they can't touch them again for 5 years. I agree it looks ridiculous and I'm not sure if it's the best plan, but that's why.

This. Similar to Tuckahoe and Ashlawn/Glebe. Move minimal number of kids now to preserve as many options as possible. APS should have gone ahead and done the whole county at once.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

Seriously? WTH is up with that? It just looks ridiculous. If they were so fearful of change, why didn't they just let the kids there stay at Taylor who wanted to do so but draw a normal boundary for the rest of the people who can walk to school?

I think they are worried about moving kids in a way that leaves Taylor empty and ASFS and new Key overfull. They didn't move anything to ASFS that they aren't sure they want there long term. The PUs on the right side of the peninsula were already at ASFS so leaving them there is status quo and they can be moved in 2 years if necessary. The ones in the peninsula are at Taylor right now so if they moved them to ASFS they can't touch them again for 5 years. I agree it looks ridiculous and I'm not sure if it's the best plan, but that's why.

This. Similar to Tuckahoe and Ashlawn/Glebe. Move minimal number of kids now to preserve as many options as possible. APS should have gone ahead and done the whole county at once.

There is no way kids who can walk to school will not be moved there eventually so it makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

Seriously? WTH is up with that? It just looks ridiculous. If they were so fearful of change, why didn't they just let the kids there stay at Taylor who wanted to do so but draw a normal boundary for the rest of the people who can walk to school?

I think they are worried about moving kids in a way that leaves Taylor empty and ASFS and new Key overfull. They didn't move anything to ASFS that they aren't sure they want there long term. The PUs on the right side of the peninsula were already at ASFS so leaving them there is status quo and they can be moved in 2 years if necessary. The ones in the peninsula are at Taylor right now so if they moved them to ASFS they can't touch them again for 5 years. I agree it looks ridiculous and I'm not sure if it's the best plan, but that's why.

This. Similar to Tuckahoe and Ashlawn/Glebe. Move minimal number of kids now to preserve as many options as possible. APS should have gone ahead and done the whole county at once.

There is no way kids who can walk to school will not be moved there eventually so it makes no sense.

I agree and I wrote in to point that out. They don't seem to care.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

Seriously? WTH is up with that? It just looks ridiculous. If they were so fearful of change, why didn't they just let the kids there stay at Taylor who wanted to do so but draw a normal boundary for the rest of the people who can walk to school?

I think they are worried about moving kids in a way that leaves Taylor empty and ASFS and new Key overfull. They didn't move anything to ASFS that they aren't sure they want there long term. The PUs on the right side of the peninsula were already at ASFS so leaving them there is status quo and they can be moved in 2 years if necessary. The ones in the peninsula are at Taylor right now so if they moved them to ASFS they can't touch them again for 5 years. I agree it looks ridiculous and I'm not sure if it's the best plan, but that's why.

This. Similar to Tuckahoe and Ashlawn/Glebe. Move minimal number of kids now to preserve as many options as possible. APS should have gone ahead and done the whole county at once.

There is no way kids who can walk to school will not be moved there eventually so it makes no sense.

It depends on how dedicated they are to not moving Rosslyn to Taylor. They can't keep Rosslyn at new Key, accomodate new development AND put the full walk zones at ASFS and Key. The numbers just don't work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is BS - Mckinley got everything they wanted and the rest of us continue to be bussed. APS sucks. Between this and the mishandling of the return to school, I'm beyond angry.

Well at least Rosslyn isn’t being sent half way across the county. But that ASFS and Taylor peninsula just make it unnecessarily complicated

Seriously? WTH is up with that? It just looks ridiculous. If they were so fearful of change, why didn't they just let the kids there stay at Taylor who wanted to do so but draw a normal boundary for the rest of the people who can walk to school?

I think they are worried about moving kids in a way that leaves Taylor empty and ASFS and new Key overfull. They didn't move anything to ASFS that they aren't sure they want there long term. The PUs on the right side of the peninsula were already at ASFS so leaving them there is status quo and they can be moved in 2 years if necessary. The ones in the peninsula are at Taylor right now so if they moved them to ASFS they can't touch them again for 5 years. I agree it looks ridiculous and I'm not sure if it's the best plan, but that's why.

This. Similar to Tuckahoe and Ashlawn/Glebe. Move minimal number of kids now to preserve as many options as possible. APS should have gone ahead and done the whole county at once.

There is no way kids who can walk to school will not be moved there eventually so it makes no sense.

The Taylor side of Lyon Village can't walk to ASFS. The walking map is confusing -- there is a busy street (Kirkwood) that makes them bus riders. They have expanded the ASFS walk zone to all of Lyon Village for Covid, but that's supposed to be temporary. Technically they can't walk, and are bus riders either way. They could have put all of Lyon Village at Taylor (which maybe they will do in the future, who knows), but they kept parts of it at ASFS so they don't have to move kids unnecessarily during the pandemic.
None of the walkers at Key (Clarendon/Courthouse/Lyon Village) will be there if they aren't moved there now. The school is going to be over capacity pretty much right after opening depending on what happens with hybrid/virtual next year. The F/RL rate is also going to be extremely high at Key, which is why they had to have the ASFS boundary go south and east to try to pull in some of the closer affordable housing (Woodbury Park and some of the other buildings around Rocky Run). It would be really sad to have a 50% farms school within a mile of another school at <7%.