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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh look. We should have done a Rosslyn MS after all. [/quote]
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Why do people keep talking about a Rosslyn middle school?  How would have helped this situation?  Truly don’t understand the point. [/quote]

Not sure because the kids who live near Hamm would have been bused there, so I am not sure how that would have been better for them than busing to WMS. Some ppl just like to complain. And also they don't get it. [/quote]

The PP who say we should have built at Rosslyn are NOT current Hamm/Taylor parents, that was clear from other parts of the post.

I just don’t see why anyone is lamenting that option, unless they mean abolish HBW so that middle schools would have more capacity (1100 sear Hamm, 1100 seat Heights), but no Taylor/Hamm parent would consider that?  So really confused who is advocating for Rosslyn?[/quote]

One take away I have from the Rosslyn point is that APS staff planners are really terrible.  How could they locate a “neighborhood”  MS so far away from the needed seats?  [b]That is, they justified spending millions on building DHMS as a neighborhood school and just in a heartbeat APS is now saying, woops, we don’t need those seats there[/b].

Same argument re: Cardinal/closing Nottingham.

Bottom line for me is they are wholly incompetent and so parents should fight for what they want.  This is not a do what’s best for the system when it’s comes to your own children/family.  And that’s Ok.  [/quote]

NOPE! It was the local community that wanted its "walkable" middle school and insisted on the Stratford site becoming the neighborhood middle school. Per usual, APS gave in.[/quote]

Eye roll.  Here we go with the APS staff defenders. Same position every time: the very bad no good decisions that put “us” in the position of requiring seat rearranging is due entirely to the aggressive, Karens of [insert here North Arlington school].  APS staff was right all along.

APS is accountable for ITS decisions and ITS money choices.  Stop blaming parents/neighborhoods.

APS built a neighborhood school in a neighborhood and those neighborhood families are rightly going to demand that it be used as such.

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