Reply to The demise of McKinley ES (APS)

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "The demise of McKinley ES (APS)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm at ATS and there is very little resistence to the move (although the extra 10 minutes each way on the bus will be a drawback for many). The concern is the school not being in the IPP.  I don't think it's unhinged to ask for a straight-forward explanation of what that means for the program. [/quote]

It’s not “unhinged” to want an answer to that question, but it has absolutely zero to do with the location review.  They could move ATS but otherwise keep it exactly the same, or they could keep it where it is and fundamentally change it.  The ATS program discussion does not belong in the location review process, and it’s obnoxious and counterproductive to keep trying to derail one process with your personal concerns about a wholly separate process.[/quote]

I think parents see a connection because of the dissonance of APS touting an expansion of the program's size as an advantage to moving ATS to a less central location (explicitly in order to advantage another program with ATS's current location), while simultaneously refusing to explain a planning document that omits the program. I think it's reasonable to ask for an explanation of how those two APS stances make sense together.  To portray that as "derailing the process" seems off base to me. [/quote]

Those parents would be pretty obtuse, since it has been explicitly stated that the staff is considering implementing an IB curriculum at ATS.  The program may transition in the future, but we will continue to have just as many elementary option programs. This is not a difficult think to understand, and I don’t think ATS parents as a group are somehow cognitively impaired, so let’s stop being disingenuous.[/quote]

Can you point me to where that was explicitly stated? I know ATS was not included but IB was added, but I haven't seen that staff stated ATS would become IB? I'm genuinely curious.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics