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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this has to be mothers who made all their friends through their kids' friends and are anxious about their grown up gaggle being broken up.  I can see no other reason why people would be so over invested in this stuff.  The kids are and will be fine.  These are all great schools.[/quote]

Huh? You think separating kids from their friend groups every 2 years, reshuffling commute patterns, and battling for extended day slots is no big deal? If I wanted to have that kind of life I’d have signed up for a military or consulting gig, both of which pay better or have better benefits than the stable job I chose for myself because I wanted stability. [/quote]

1.  It's not every 2 years.  Exaggeration.  Some of their friends go with them and some don't.  In the end, these are good life skills.  You don't live in a place where the same group of kids moves through K-12.  Most kids in that type of setting are not friends with the same exact same kids year in and year out anyway.  Shifting friendships in childhood is normal. They will need the skills to make new friends.  In fact, I promise you when the time comes you will be thrilled they are getting away from some kids in their friend group!

2.  Reshuffling commute patterns?  These schools are all so close to each other.

3.  Extended day slots I can see.  So focus on that and argue they should expand extended day or transfer slots or something.  Productive thing to think about.

If you think this is like a military lifestyle I don't even know what to say.  So far off the mark it's embarrassing you said it.  Those kids really go through it.[/quote]

+1 no kid is getting shuffled every two years, that is ridiculous. If your kid is moved at some point they basically guarantee to not do it again during their elementary years (this has come up before and when a group who had already moved was at risk they changed course to make sure that didn't happen). Changing to a neighboring (also wonderful) school one time in six years WITH many of their classmates is not an issue for your child. Kids are very able to go through changes like this with the support of their parents and community. Re: commute I went to Nottingham. Getting yourself to Nottingham in the morning vs getting yourself to Discovery, that is not a new commute pattern. Come on. As the other poster said, extended day slots is a valid issue. I would put energy to that.

It's ok to be like this is annoying and in my ideal world wouldn't be necessary, and be disappointed without exaggerating the impact so vastly. When you live in a community things need to be done to benefit the whole community sometimes. Also, this does happen in Fairfax and MCPS and most districts as well.[/quote]

These redistricting attempts are taking place ALL THE TIME. APS is very unique in the amount of time and resources they spend reshuffling enrollment. This is because their projections are always wrong by an order of magnitude and they are not leaving themselves any grace in their planning factors.

The fact that kids “survive” this is not a justification to keep doing it. We spend way too much money to be planning for chaos and mediocrity. Reshuffle once a decade- that’s it. [/quote]

No, that's wrong. I'm not APS but the real problem is the expectation of influence that any given neighborhood here thinks they should have. You've heard of the Arlington Way? Lots of public input, plan iterations. But it's only gotten worse as Arlington became home to SelfVIPs who feel it's a right to fight any boundary change because they recently bought a house with a big mortgage and didn't expect change. The mistake in this go-around will be the same in any past reboundary, which is the school board forces APS to pursue some frankensteinian middle ground that simply triggers the next round of boundary changes. And before you accuse me of being an APS-loving communist, I do think they've made boundary mistakes - but they aren't the ones that get talked about here because they have typically happened to lower income pops in SA who don't come here to complain. [/quote]

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