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Anonymous wrote:You all should wait for the revised walk zone maps before you go predicting what APS is going to do. Those original maps are not gonna hold. Lots of new data from the communities that have been working with staff.

Dog and pony show, like all the committees. They'll do what they want to do. Maybe it will align with your hopes, maybe not.

Absolutely. All APS engagement isn’t to engage the community. It is for the school board to see who it pisses off. If that group is big and votes, gives a lot of money, or would be insensitive to piss off, they won’t do it. Otherwise, they don’t care what anyone says and will do what the incompetent/egotistical staff wants.

Anonymous wrote:You all should wait for the revised walk zone maps before you go predicting what APS is going to do. Those original maps are not gonna hold. Lots of new data from the communities that have been working with staff.

"New data" like, "My 5-year-old can walk from S of Columbia Pike up to Route 50 to attend Fleet!" Nope. They are not stupid.

Anonymous wrote:I'd take Ashlawn in a milisecond over that overcrowded McK with the !@@#$%^ admins.

+1

Anonymous wrote:You all should wait for the revised walk zone maps before you go predicting what APS is going to do. Those original maps are not gonna hold. Lots of new data from the communities that have been working with staff.

Dog and pony show, like all the committees. They'll do what they want to do. Maybe it will align with your hopes, maybe not.

Anonymous wrote:You all should wait for the revised walk zone maps before you go predicting what APS is going to do. Those original maps are not gonna hold. Lots of new data from the communities that have been working with staff.

the whole thing is a farce. The current walk zones are entirely reasonable. The whole thing is about uptight UMC families making a deal with aps: you can take away bus service, just keep us at the school we like or send us to the one we want to go to, and we'll pretend that our kids will walk there instead of having a babysitter drive them.

You all should wait for the revised walk zone maps before you go predicting what APS is going to do. Those original maps are not gonna hold. Lots of new data from the communities that have been working with staff.

ATS isn't going anywhere. It's the perfect location for a countywide option school. Sorry Bluemont. You knew you what the deal was when you bought there. Next.

I'd take Ashlawn in a milisecond over that overcrowded McK with the !@@#$%^ admins.

Anonymous wrote:APS recently closed the survey for ATS walk zones. Email engage@apsva.us if you want to have ATS become a walkable neighborhood school!

Many families in Bluemont may have missed the survey!

Families in Bluemont don’t like the easy walk to newly renovated, well regarded Ashlawn?

Serious question.

Anonymous wrote:Should remain a choice school. Maybe something else other than ATS tho. Performing arts or something.

There won’t be a new choice program. Potentially immersion would move from Key to ATS to free up seats in the east and the ATS program would move to Tuckahoe since there will be extra seats in the NW once Reed opens, and there aren’t a lot of walkers to Tuckahoe who couldn’t walk elsewhere.

Nice try, but probably going to remain choice. Definitely not a new program, probably will continue to be ATS with a small chance of immersion.

Should remain a choice school. Maybe something else other than ATS tho. Performing arts or something.

It’s an ideal location for a choice school.

Why would they do this? It is a good location for a Choice school.

APS recently closed the survey for ATS walk zones. Email engage@apsva.us if you want to have ATS become a walkable neighborhood school!

Many families in Bluemont may have missed the survey!