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[quote=Anonymous]There is an earlier thread on here that happened right after the McKinley PTA meeting. It goes on for 19 pages or so with discussion about this issue-- although the South Arlington parents kind of hijacked it at the end to make fun of North Arlington parents for being whiney. I think the thread title is something like "Never Believe APS Construction Timelines"

From what I heard from someone involved, McKinley staff and the McKinley building planning committee (BPC) heard about the delay the same night as the parents at the PTA meeting. The County briefed the McKinley staff and BPC at 6:30PM and the PTA meeting started at 7PM. It was a totally shitty position to put Colin Brown in, especially less than a week after his wife died. I was at the PTA meeting, and the guy from APS planning came off as an arrogant jerk who I thought was extremely dismissive of parent questions. My theory is that they didn't want to face opposition about moving the planning units from Glebe and Tuckahoe, and so by putting off the announcement about the construction delay until mid-April, they have effectively killed any time for a real conversation about whether it makes more sense to hold off moving the additional 100 kids into the school next year (as opposed to waiting one more year until construction is finished, which is what those planning units seem to want). Note: I am not in one of those planning units, just conveying my observation from attending the meeting and hearing the discussion. In any event, I agree that the entire situation has been handled poorly by APS. I don't think the McKinley PTA and staff had any control over the situation though. It is really our job as parents to attend all these APS construction meetings and ask the hard questions so that the APS teaching staff can focus on educating our kids. I think more parents need to become active in these conversations because we are facing huge challenges with high school capacity for these same kids in a few years.[/quote]

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