APS middle school boundary process

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks, pp. So are those the scenarios they're considering? If so, why are they thinking of linking them to hs boundaries given that those will likely change and have proven to have huge socioeconomic differences that lead to lower performance outcomes?

As usual, the board created their own problems. Took me a while to figure it out, but these are the extremes you get in their model when you weight only one criteria.

Would have been nice if the text made that clear right off. I missed it, too.

(I only noticed because one picture moves all the white kids out of Jefferson and replaces them with poor Latino kids. I couldn't believe they would be that stupid, so I read further)

Well, I am concerned that they provided false data to the Center for American Progress so that APS appears just segregated instead of hyper-segregated. And even if it was accurate (which I highly doubt), seems like they're determined to make it so. If this is what the community wants, they're going to let them have it?! Why even have an option like that up for discussion? The people who would be upset by that have given up and probably didn't even provide feedback because they know it won't matter.

It was disgusting to hear NVD smugly correct RG, that the schools weren’t hyper segregated. Like just being plain old segregated is anything to celebrate. Of course they cooked those numbers. Of course they got creative. Unreal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Lyon Park in the area that would move all the wealthy white kids to Stratford with one of the options. I do not want to be moved out of Jefferson as it has a great reputation and is only a couple blocks from my house. For the most part, people in my neighborhood love Jefferson.

Really?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Lyon Park in the area that would move all the wealthy white kids to Stratford with one of the options. I do not want to be moved out of Jefferson as it has a great reputation and is only a couple blocks from my house. For the most part, people in my neighborhood love Jefferson.

Really?

Yes. Really. You know something about Jefferson that the parents of students who go there don't know?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Lyon Park in the area that would move all the wealthy white kids to Stratford with one of the options. I do not want to be moved out of Jefferson as it has a great reputation and is only a couple blocks from my house. For the most part, people in my neighborhood love Jefferson.

Really?

Really what? I’ve only ever heard great things about Jefferson.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Scores. Scores make a good school. Not its racial makeup.

Scores. Scores are determined by the socioeconomic make up of a school. Not it’s racial make up.

Right, a school with no poors. The poors have “poor” habits which infects their kids and their kids then pass those poor habits along to the other kids. More than 30% of kids in the Arlington county public schools are from poor families, which unsurprising bc this group makes atrocious choices which exaxerbates their problem, eg, having kids when destitute.

Go back to your Trump rally. Your low I.Q. will receive a warmer welcome there.

+1

Shouldn't you be heading down to the Spencer rally in FL soon? Your tiki torch is waiting for you.

It has nothing to do with race. The poors exhibit bad behavior (hence they are poor) which their kids model and then bring into the schools where the other kids pick it up. Why do you think even the poors themselves dont want to go to school with the poors?

I'm so glad I didn't go to school with these poor bastards.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scores. Scores make a good school. Not its racial makeup.

Scores. Scores are determined by the socioeconomic make up of a school. Not it’s racial make up.

Right, a school with no poors. The poors have “poor” habits which infects their kids and their kids then pass those poor habits along to the other kids. More than 30% of kids in the Arlington county public schools are from poor families, which unsurprising bc this group makes atrocious choices which exaxerbates their problem, eg, having kids when destitute.

Go back to your Trump rally. Your low I.Q. will receive a warmer welcome there.

+1

Shouldn't you be heading down to the Spencer rally in FL soon? Your tiki torch is waiting for you.

It has nothing to do with race. The poors exhibit bad behavior (hence they are poor) which their kids model and then bring into the schools where the other kids pick it up. Why do you think even the poors themselves dont want to go to school with the poors?

I am going to only address your last point which is not true, if I i understand correctly proximity is something all parents want for their child. Many parents of kids in lower performing schools don't want their kids moved, they want they school made better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scores. Scores make a good school. Not its racial makeup.

Scores. Scores are determined by the socioeconomic make up of a school. Not it’s racial make up.

Right, a school with no poors. The poors have “poor” habits which infects their kids and their kids then pass those poor habits along to the other kids. More than 30% of kids in the Arlington county public schools are from poor families, which unsurprising bc this group makes atrocious choices which exaxerbates their problem, eg, having kids when destitute.

Go back to your Trump rally. Your low I.Q. will receive a warmer welcome there.

+1

Shouldn't you be heading down to the Spencer rally in FL soon? Your tiki torch is waiting for you.

It has nothing to do with race. The poors exhibit bad behavior (hence they are poor) which their kids model and then bring into the schools where the other kids pick it up. Why do you think even the poors themselves dont want to go to school with the poors?

I am going to only address your last point which is not true, if I i understand correctly proximity is something all parents want for their child. Many parents of kids in lower performing schools don't want their kids moved, they want they school made better.

Well, that's going to be an even harder uphill climb with the most challenged schools becoming even more economically disadvantaged and more overcrowded to boot. Especially since many of these same parents think education should fall entirely on the schools and they have no part in it. Perhaps APS is just bored and looking for ways to make things harder for themselves?

Has anyone ever asked the teachers what they think?

[Anonymous]

Scores. Scores are determined by the socioeconomic make up of a school. Not it’s racial make up.


Right, a school with no poors. The poors have “poor” habits which infects their kids and their kids then pass those poor habits along to the other kids. More than 30% of kids in the Arlington county public schools are from poor families, which unsurprising bc this group makes atrocious choices which exaxerbates their problem, eg, having kids when destitute.


Go back to your Trump rally. Your low I.Q. will receive a warmer welcome there.


+1

Shouldn't you be heading down to the Spencer rally in FL soon? Your tiki torch is waiting for you.

It has nothing to do with race. The poors exhibit bad behavior (hence they are poor) which their kids model and then bring into the schools where the other kids pick it up. Why do you think even the poors themselves dont want to go to school with the poors?


I am going to only address your last point which is not true, if I i understand correctly proximity is something all parents want for their child. Many parents of kids in lower performing schools don't want their kids moved, they want they school made better.


Well, that's going to be an even harder uphill climb with the most challenged schools becoming even more economically disadvantaged and more overcrowded to boot. Especially since many of these same parents think education should fall entirely on the schools and they have no part in it. Perhaps APS is just bored and looking for ways to make things harder for themselves?

Has anyone ever asked the teachers what they think?

No. I wish they would.

[Anonymous]

So only a few more hours to “vote” for option A or B!

What are the pros and cons of these options in your minds?

[Anonymous]

What is SWD % on the boundary maps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is SWD % on the boundary maps?

Students with disabilities

[Anonymous]

Aren't they supposed to be releasing tweaked versions of A and B today----does anyone know if that is still happening?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't they supposed to be releasing tweaked versions of A and B today----does anyone know if that is still happening?

Is the next thing not on the 14th?

[Anonymous]

This just came in the APS School Talk email:

The community can view the next round of middle school boundary options, FAQs, and comments received by APS on the APS Engage Middle School Boundary webpage ***by the end of the day, Wed, Nov. 8. ***

[Anonymous]

https://www.apsva.us/engage/middle-school-boundary-change/staff-recommendation/

Click on the link inside the page to get to the .pdf that includes breakdowns of capacity utilization and FARMS distribution.