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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Community didn’t care if it was walkable; they just didn’t want the ridiculous dreg of land that is the heights site for 1100 students. I know people who could walk to the Heights who wanted the Hamm site because the whole “warehouse” model was obscene. [/quote]

That's fine, in fact I get it. Just don't complain now about what you got. [/quote]

They aren’t complaining! Quite the opposite - current Hamm families love the school and want to stay. That is what they are advocating for.[/quote]

They are complaining about the very foreseeable results of putting two middle schools too close to each other. Which is exactly what they wanted. [/quote]

What misinformed and accusatory comment.

If they had situated Hamm at the Heights sight, it would have the same boundaries — and we would have the same imbalance. It’s a result of fewer families going to public school in the wealthy 22207 zip code (see Nottingham).

And Hamm and WMS are no closer than WMS and Swanson — they in fact make a very good fixed radius circle with WMS as the focal point.

If anything Kenmore and Swanson are Very close, and Kenmore and Jefferson are certainly close than WMS and Hamm.

You just want to claim the move is for some made of reason (schools are too close), and then somehow blame the Hamm parents?  What an agenda!

Maybe if Hamm had been placed at the heights, they would all be delighted to be zoned to WMS, because it would be such an awful site for a large neighborhood school and require extensive busing anyways since the population of middle school students is much smalller in Rosslyn and many in Lyon Village leave for private by grade 6.

But as far as decision that were best for Hamm students, the Stratford site for Hamm was a winner hands down. It’s the best middle school on the county, and now the staff want to tear apart it’s community?[/quote]

1. People in LV wanted the Rosslyn school.

2. Hamm is great because of the principal, not because of entitled parents. 
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1. Probably because they had friends at HB, at least half of LV goes private for middle school.

2. Agree that she is great.  But disrupting a student body every 4 years isn't healthy.[/quote]

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