Anonymous wrote:I attended the last meeting at Yorktown. Still smh at half the stuff I heard. One guy literally yelled out, "I don't care about any of this! The only thing that matters is that my daughter doesn't have to go to Washington-Lee with 4,000 kids!!" Another lady says, with a straight face, "You cannot open up Key to the entire county! We go to Science Focus, and we NEED that school to relieve our overcrowding! Have you seen what's happening at Taylor and SFS? We have to have 3 neighborhood schools!!"

"We have to have 3 neighborhood schools." Basically, I don't care about immersion. I don't really care about any of the children at Key. They only exist to relieve overcrowding at my kid's school. And the W-L guy? Basically told us if thousands of other kids in the county have to get stuffed into trailers and closets for his daughter to experience a pristine high school experience ...well, it is what it is.

Is anyone paying attention to the demographic trends? We live in Arlington. Outside of Discovery and maybe a couple others, every school is on track to be overcrowded. We all chose to live in a geographically small, fairly urban suburb that's continuing to grow. There won't be anywhere to ship all these "other" kids so "your" school is untouched by these facts.

Anonymous wrote:The "automatic lottery entry" thing concerns me. Part of the reason the countywide programs succeed is that they have devoted parents who really care about the programs. If you automatically enter families with no interest, some of them will get in and attend and then not engage or get as much out of it. They've already eased up the requirements by not requiring a tour or signatures on a form. (which makes it easier on busy parents.)

I'm on the PTA board at ATS and we're opposed to the idea for this reason. Part of what makes our school great is that we have engaged parents, but out of hundreds of families, you still see the same 20-30 people running everything because others don't volunteer. We worry that will get worse with automatic lottery entry; that you'll have even fewer parents who care enough to do more than the bare minimum.

Anonymous wrote:WL sucks ass

Anonymous wrote:I attended the last meeting at Yorktown. Still smh at half the stuff I heard. One guy literally yelled out, "I don't care about any of this! The only thing that matters is that my daughter doesn't have to go to Washington-Lee with 4,000 kids!!" Another lady says, with a straight face, "You cannot open up Key to the entire county! We go to Science Focus, and we NEED that school to relieve our overcrowding! Have you seen what's happening at Taylor and SFS? We have to have 3 neighborhood schools!!"

"We have to have 3 neighborhood schools." Basically, I don't care about immersion. I don't really care about any of the children at Key. They only exist to relieve overcrowding at my kid's school. And the W-L guy? Basically told us if thousands of other kids in the county have to get stuffed into trailers and closets for his daughter to experience a pristine high school experience ...well, it is what it is.

Is anyone paying attention to the demographic trends? We live in Arlington. Outside of Discovery and maybe a couple others, every school is on track to be overcrowded. We all chose to live in a geographically small, fairly urban suburb that's continuing to grow. There won't be anywhere to ship all these "other" kids so "your" school is untouched by these facts.

Anonymous wrote:I attended the last meeting at Yorktown. Still smh at half the stuff I heard. One guy literally yelled out, "I don't care about any of this! The only thing that matters is that my daughter doesn't have to go to Washington-Lee with 4,000 kids!!" Another lady says, with a straight face, "You cannot open up Key to the entire county! We go to Science Focus, and we NEED that school to relieve our overcrowding! Have you seen what's happening at Taylor and SFS? We have to have 3 neighborhood schools!!"

"We have to have 3 neighborhood schools." Basically, I don't care about immersion. I don't really care about any of the children at Key. They only exist to relieve overcrowding at my kid's school. And the W-L guy? Basically told us if thousands of other kids in the county have to get stuffed into trailers and closets for his daughter to experience a pristine high school experience ...well, it is what it is.

Is anyone paying attention to the demographic trends? We live in Arlington. Outside of Discovery and maybe a couple others, every school is on track to be overcrowded. We all chose to live in a geographically small, fairly urban suburb that's continuing to grow. There won't be anywhere to ship all these "other" kids so "your" school is untouched by these facts.

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False equivalency dude. Their kids went to a traditional high school at normal hours, sitting in a classroom, with fields to practice on.
Van Doren and Murphy are batting around great ideas like shift schedules, online learning, and internships.
Our retired citizens won't be giving up the community center that was once a school either. They have water color class on Wednesday over there.
Oh, and they won't be paying taxes. "Arlington is so expensive now! I can't pay taxes and age in place! Just get rid of those new fangled iPads."

Nevermind that the whole point of 1:1 is to get these kids primed for online learning,

so the arlington county democratic committee doesn't have to deal with building more schools. They don't have the will and the county doesn't have the space or the money. This student boom is to be weathered. It will pass.

This is a horrible idea....absolutely horrible. It assumes that young children have the stamina and motivation to sit in front of a screen and learn on their own, which they simply do not have. Developmentally, it simply isn't there! Ask any teacher and they will tell you that. Online learning can be done when a student is older--perhaps in college--but not younger. There needs to be someone there to answer questions and keep the student on task.

False equivalency dude. Their kids went to a traditional high school at normal hours, sitting in a classroom, with fields to practice on.
Van Doren and Murphy are batting around great ideas like shift schedules, online learning, and internships.
Our retired citizens won't be giving up the community center that was once a school either. They have water color class on Wednesday over there.
Oh, and they won't be paying taxes. "Arlington is so expensive now! I can't pay taxes and age in place! Just get rid of those new fangled iPads."

Nevermind that the whole point of 1:1 is to get these kids primed for online learning,

so the arlington county democratic committee doesn't have to deal with building more schools. They don't have the will and the county doesn't have the space or the money. This student boom is to be weathered. It will pass.

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Omg. That is literally exactly what happens. " the system was good enough for my kids"

Do you disagree with that? If you went to school or sent your kids to school somewhere where kids bought their own devices, language instruction didn't start until middle school, or classes had 30 students or more, you might think that 1 cent would be better off in your pocket than in APS' coffers.

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Omg. That is literally exactly what happens. " the system was good enough for my kids"

Do you disagree with that? If you went to school or sent your kids to school somewhere where kids bought their own devices, language instruction didn't start until middle school, or classes had 30 students or more, you might think that 1 cent would be better off in your pocket than in APS' coffers.

I think like that and I have kids in APS.

You're against language instruction? Jeez..

You have to read the whole sentence (no matter what language it's in)

I read the sentence. You don't think kids should learn another language until they're teens?

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Omg. That is literally exactly what happens. " the system was good enough for my kids"

Do you disagree with that? If you went to school or sent your kids to school somewhere where kids bought their own devices, language instruction didn't start until middle school, or classes had 30 students or more, you might think that 1 cent would be better off in your pocket than in APS' coffers.

I think like that and I have kids in APS.

You're against language instruction? Jeez..

You have to read the whole sentence (no matter what language it's in)

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Omg. That is literally exactly what happens. " the system was good enough for my kids"

Do you disagree with that? If you went to school or sent your kids to school somewhere where kids bought their own devices, language instruction didn't start until middle school, or classes had 30 students or more, you might think that 1 cent would be better off in your pocket than in APS' coffers.

I think like that and I have kids in APS.

You're against language instruction? Jeez..

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Omg. That is literally exactly what happens. " the system was good enough for my kids"

Do you disagree with that? If you went to school or sent your kids to school somewhere where kids bought their own devices, language instruction didn't start until middle school, or classes had 30 students or more, you might think that 1 cent would be better off in your pocket than in APS' coffers.

I think like that and I have kids in APS.