APS - new CIP proposal
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Anonymous
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https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/C2RT7M7546E4/$file/F-1%20Supts%20Proposed%20FY%202022-2024%20CIP%20Presentation.pdf
All the money for secondary seats will go to building a new choice MS/HS at the Career Center. And a new Montessori building on the site of the old CC (even though it's elementary and we don't urgently need ES seats). Middle school seats continue to have a huge deficit. Virtual school is envisioned as the answer to the capacity problems: "Virtual Learning May Impact Capacity Needs •APS will have a virtual school for 2021-22 •A long-term virtual school will likely remain available for students who find it works better for them and their needs •Virtual learning could reduce the needs for in-person seats, we will get a better sense of the impact over the next several years" |
Anonymous
| Hmmm only 339 middle school kids picked virtual. |
Anonymous
| Kicking the can down the road for MS seats again. And all the money goes to option schools. |
Anonymous
| They have to build a new facility for Montessori elementary if they’re going to repurpose that part of the site for the Career Center expansion. That was always par of the plan. |
Anonymous
Disagree with the bolded. The proposal contemplates repurposing the old Career Center building for Montessori. Hopefully that will be at minimal expense, but I'm not too familiar with the space and how easily adapted it would be to elementary classrooms. |
Anonymous
1286 students at all levels chose virtual, of those 17.56% said it was because it’s their preferred method. That gives us 226 kids in the entire district at all grade levels who prefer virtual. Yup, that’s def going to solve all of our capacity issues. |
Anonymous
| I just can’t think of a worst learning model for middle school students than virtual- they’re at an important age for executive functioning, socialization and social emotional learning- all of which are extremely difficult to develop an an online environment. |
Anonymous
My recollection is this was *considered* as part of a plan to build a full-size 4th neighborhood high school on this site. That's not what the CIP is doing. It's proposing at best an 1800 seat combined choice MS/HS - at worst a 1300 seat choice MS/HS. We need a 4th high school in Arlington AND we need a new middle school (or two 300 seat additions). This proposal falls far short of that and wastes money on an ES that already has a building (one that APS just spent $1 million freshening up for MPSA). |
Anonymous
| I thought there was a whole thing with option elementary schools not getting brand new buildings. I guess Montessori is special. |
Anonymous
Montessori has always been special. Monique did her job on the Board. That's why she can now leave it....before the people rise up and she has to deal with it. |
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Anonymous
Virtual will impact capacity needs because it will drive away UMC families. This is the plan. |
Anonymous
| Why the *** does Montessori need another school? Both of our dual language programs are way over capacity (and now even more so, thanks school moves.) If there's anything that APS needs option-school wise, it's another elementary immersion program. |
Anonymous
They shrunk both immersion programs to 96 K students this year. There were 8 Spanish speakers waitlisted at Key and none at Claremont. Claremont had a 91 person waitlist for English speakers and 33 at Key |
Anonymous
| Is the 2021-22 lottery data publicly available yet? |