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Anonymous wrote:Hey Nottingham, Mary K. is going to kill your school. Tune in to the board meeting Dec. 18. She’s already ruled out closing Taylor and while Mary’s proposal will mention a south ES, the huge lack of seats in the south means not even Drew will be converted to an option school. (Also, good luck taking that historic black community’s school from them and bussing their kids elsewhere, amirite?). This means only Nottingham is left and please remember Mary supported that school being swing space last year. Good luck.

Not being obtuse - why do we care given how under enrolled it is? I don’t see enrollment picking back up naturally (ie via new families moving in) and “north north” Arlington is already bursting at the seams with elementary schools.

Also not being obtuse…genuinely responding: the degree to which Nottingham or any neighborhood school is under enrolled or over capacity has to do with its current boundaries. APS has skipped countywide redrawing cycles at least once and maybe twice, and keeps setting itself up for big one later this decade. The irony is that no matter whether an ES is closed/lost to neighborhood or not, there is going to be a massive redrawing that likely includes shifting a mass of households northward generally. This is why I strongly agree APS should never lose a building (unlike the transfers to county in 90s)…we can use every facility much better with new boundaries. But if I were Nottingham community, I would argue for that first before losing their local.

Anonymous wrote:Hey Nottingham, Mary K. is going to kill your school. Tune in to the board meeting Dec. 18. She’s already ruled out closing Taylor and while Mary’s proposal will mention a south ES, the huge lack of seats in the south means not even Drew will be converted to an option school. (Also, good luck taking that historic black community’s school from them and bussing their kids elsewhere, amirite?). This means only Nottingham is left and please remember Mary supported that school being swing space last year. Good luck.

Not being obtuse - why do we care given how under enrolled it is? I don’t see enrollment picking back up naturally (ie via new families moving in) and “north north” Arlington is already bursting at the seams with elementary schools.

Hey Nottingham, Mary K. is going to kill your school. Tune in to the board meeting Dec. 18. She’s already ruled out closing Taylor and while Mary’s proposal will mention a south ES, the huge lack of seats in the south means not even Drew will be converted to an option school. (Also, good luck taking that historic black community’s school from them and bussing their kids elsewhere, amirite?). This means only Nottingham is left and please remember Mary supported that school being swing space last year. Good luck.

Anonymous wrote:I’ll be honest, the woman who spoke to the Board in the 1980s about her kids being sent to Key from Taylor actually said it was an offense to Christianity and just used some Bible quotes. At the time, a lot of teachers thought she was a whacko. Sadly, turns out she was just ahead of her time.

The 80s was the weird era of Tammy Fae Baker. Anyways, all of posh Lyon Village remained zoned to Taylor one way or another in the 1980s through the 2010s since there was a team of schools: Jamestown, Science Focus (opened in the 90s), Taylor, and Key.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d we are asking. What about each option schools? Wwjd? What about lily white no po ppl schools? What about empty n. Arl es? So curious. Who here is a Catholic in good standing?

If you want to do something about this, eliminate neighborhood schools. Neighborhoods are segregated so neighborhood schools will be too.

People self-segregate regardless even if there’s a ton of diversity. Look at Kenmore as a shining example re another active thread on here.

I’ll be honest, the woman who spoke to the Board in the 1980s about her kids being sent to Key from Taylor actually said it was an offense to Christianity and just used some Bible quotes. At the time, a lot of teachers thought she was a whacko. Sadly, turns out she was just ahead of her time.

Anonymous wrote:I’d we are asking. What about each option schools? Wwjd? What about lily white no po ppl schools? What about empty n. Arl es? So curious. Who here is a Catholic in good standing?

If you want to do something about this, eliminate neighborhood schools. Neighborhoods are segregated so neighborhood schools will be too.

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Anonymous wrote:APS never changed school boundaries without massive outcry. I remember when some families were zoned into Key and a woman got up and yelled, “This defies the Bible.” How about when part of fairlington was supposed to be put in Drew just a few years ago and the outcry was so intense the Board put Arlington Village into Drew instead. The Arlington School would rather face anything than rezoning. They are certainly not going to rezone because one school program wants a hostile takeover of another building. Schools may be used to facilitate repairs, that’s all.

What did the Bible have to say about Key?

Well, the Bibble doesn't mention Key by name, but it does mention that the school your house was zoned to when you bought it shall be yoked to you forever, especially if it was a good school pyramid. It also says that should your home be zoned to an even better school later on, that you should get that one. It's very clear that even if you have under populated N. Arlington schools, they should all stay open with empty seats, while those poors in the South pack unto their ordained schools. I've only checked the New Arlington Blue translation from the old Greek, so the words could be off.

I’d we are asking. What about each option schools? Wwjd? What about lily white no po ppl schools? What about empty n. Arl es? So curious. Who here is a Catholic in good standing?

Anonymous wrote:APS never changed school boundaries without massive outcry. I remember when some families were zoned into Key and a woman got up and yelled, “This defies the Bible.” How about when part of fairlington was supposed to be put in Drew just a few years ago and the outcry was so intense the Board put Arlington Village into Drew instead. The Arlington School would rather face anything than rezoning. They are certainly not going to rezone because one school program wants a hostile takeover of another building. Schools may be used to facilitate repairs, that’s all.

What did the Bible have to say about Key?

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Anonymous wrote:APS never changed school boundaries without massive outcry. I remember when some families were zoned into Key and a woman got up and yelled, “This defies the Bible.” How about when part of fairlington was supposed to be put in Drew just a few years ago and the outcry was so intense the Board put Arlington Village into Drew instead. The Arlington School would rather face anything than rezoning. They are certainly not going to rezone because one school program wants a hostile takeover of another building. Schools may be used to facilitate repairs, that’s all.

Remember the guy who accused APS of murder if his kids got zoned to Drew, because they would surely die while walking along Walter Reed Dr?

To be fair, Drew is the only APS school that has 1-2 shootings per year on or directly adjacent to school grounds.

It was traffic related, not about shootings.

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Anonymous wrote:APS never changed school boundaries without massive outcry. I remember when some families were zoned into Key and a woman got up and yelled, “This defies the Bible.” How about when part of fairlington was supposed to be put in Drew just a few years ago and the outcry was so intense the Board put Arlington Village into Drew instead. The Arlington School would rather face anything than rezoning. They are certainly not going to rezone because one school program wants a hostile takeover of another building. Schools may be used to facilitate repairs, that’s all.

Remember the guy who accused APS of murder if his kids got zoned to Drew, because they would surely die while walking along Walter Reed Dr?

To be fair, Drew is the only APS school that has 1-2 shootings per year on or directly adjacent to school grounds.

Anonymous wrote:APS never changed school boundaries without massive outcry. I remember when some families were zoned into Key and a woman got up and yelled, “This defies the Bible.” How about when part of fairlington was supposed to be put in Drew just a few years ago and the outcry was so intense the Board put Arlington Village into Drew instead. The Arlington School would rather face anything than rezoning. They are certainly not going to rezone because one school program wants a hostile takeover of another building. Schools may be used to facilitate repairs, that’s all.

Remember the guy who accused APS of murder if his kids got zoned to Drew, because they would surely die while walking along Walter Reed Dr?

APS never changed school boundaries without massive outcry. I remember when some families were zoned into Key and a woman got up and yelled, “This defies the Bible.” How about when part of fairlington was supposed to be put in Drew just a few years ago and the outcry was so intense the Board put Arlington Village into Drew instead. The Arlington School would rather face anything than rezoning. They are certainly not going to rezone because one school program wants a hostile takeover of another building. Schools may be used to facilitate repairs, that’s all.

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