12:32 - I would bet money that this isn't about Taylor. There was a group of Tuckahoe families that fought tooth & nail to either stay at Tuckahoe or move to Nottingham with their neighbors that were moved the year before. However, a group of Nottingham parents put together a petition to keep them out and won over the APS staff. As a result, the Tuckahoe families were moved to McKinley, a school that is still under construction and is at over 700 students this year. They moved the kids from Tuckahoe trailers to McKinley trailers (with no gym, btw) while Nottingham had plenty of seats. As a result of the move, the neighborhood was split into 3 schools (Tuck, Nott & McK). Also, if McK is already over 700, the trailers will still be necessary next year b/c the school was built to 680-something.

Aside from the move being asisnine based upon actual student enrollment, one of the main arguments from the Tuckahoe families was that the neighborhood was already split into 2 schools and they didn't want it split up even more.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how concerned people are concerned about splitting up kids and neighborhoods now...but back when we did ES redistricting that literally split our neighborhood into three different schools, no one cared.

Luckily, you moved to a school with lots of room for you........oh, wait

Interesting. I saw lots of neighborhoods fighting to keep together during the ES redistricting process, especially a group of units near Taylor. Not judging, just saying I remember it.

Anonymous wrote:I love how concerned people are concerned about splitting up kids and neighborhoods now...but back when we did ES redistricting that literally split our neighborhood into three different schools, no one cared.

Luckily, you moved to a school with lots of room for you........oh, wait

Wakefield isn't a bad school. I don't get the pearl clutching.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This may be a dumb question, but given that there's already one Yorktown island, why couldn't we have another Yorktown island down by the Pike? Seems that that would both balance out the demographics pretty well, and would help a lot with Wakefield's faster-growing population.

+1

+1
NOT. DUMB. AT. ALL!!!
I nominate you to be in charge from now on.

Yes, please.

Also, I have been trying to keep Wakefield's population as low as possible, to make it more attractive. But I am willing to bet that certain families will complain successfully fight being moved out of W-L or Yorktown, then complain that their schools are more crowded than Wakefield.

Anonymous wrote:The more I look at this the more I like moving 2315, 4815, 4818, 4829, 4899 to Yorktown, and 1202, 4604, 4606, 4612, 4695 to Wakefield. That avoids moving planning districts with high farms rates to Wakefield and it does move some to Yorktown. It doesn't take anyone out of a walk zone. 2315 is currently Swanson, tons of Swanson already goes to Yorktown. The rest are Jefferson. Similarly the Wakefield moves are Kenmore and Jefferson.

You haven't turned on the walk zone highlight. 4606 is mostly walk zone to W-L, 4604 4695 partly walk zone.

I love how concerned people are concerned about splitting up kids and neighborhoods now...but back when we did ES redistricting that literally split our neighborhood into three different schools, no one cared.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This may be a dumb question, but given that there's already one Yorktown island, why couldn't we have another Yorktown island down by the Pike? Seems that that would both balance out the demographics pretty well, and would help a lot with Wakefield's faster-growing population.

+1

+1
NOT. DUMB. AT. ALL!!!
I nominate you to be in charge from now on.

Anonymous wrote:This may be a dumb question, but given that there's already one Yorktown island, why couldn't we have another Yorktown island down by the Pike? Seems that that would both balance out the demographics pretty well, and would help a lot with Wakefield's faster-growing population.

+1

This may be a dumb question, but given that there's already one Yorktown island, why couldn't we have another Yorktown island down by the Pike? Seems that that would both balance out the demographics pretty well, and would help a lot with Wakefield's faster-growing population.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more I look at this the more I like moving 2315, 4815, 4818, 4829, 4899 to Yorktown, and 1202, 4604, 4606, 4612, 4695 to Wakefield. That avoids moving planning districts with high farms rates to Wakefield and it does move some to Yorktown. It doesn't take anyone out of a walk zone. 2315 is currently Swanson, tons of Swanson already goes to Yorktown. The rest are Jefferson. Similarly the Wakefield moves are Kenmore and Jefferson.

I did this as well. It makes sense but I'm sure there would be push back from the Lyon Park community. Wakefield is not good for property values.

I'm doing the same moves suggested above- connecting the island to Yorktown and moving Ashton Heights and Lyon village to Wakefield. Their property values won't budge. Especially after a year to two, because it would change the demographics at Wakefield, we'd have two schools that look like WL.

The pushback is not about property values but about community cohesion.

The county is lacking in cohesion. We are tiny and that's inexcusable. Adjust your thinking to cohesion on a slightly larger scale.

They really need to add something that shows the pyramid for each unit.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more I look at this the more I like moving 2315, 4815, 4818, 4829, 4899 to Yorktown, and 1202, 4604, 4606, 4612, 4695 to Wakefield. That avoids moving planning districts with high farms rates to Wakefield and it does move some to Yorktown. It doesn't take anyone out of a walk zone. 2315 is currently Swanson, tons of Swanson already goes to Yorktown. The rest are Jefferson. Similarly the Wakefield moves are Kenmore and Jefferson.

I did this as well. It makes sense but I'm sure there would be push back from the Lyon Park community. Wakefield is not good for property values.

I'm doing the same moves suggested above- connecting the island to Yorktown and moving Ashton Heights and Lyon village to Wakefield. Their property values won't budge. Especially after a year to two, because it would change the demographics at Wakefield, we'd have two schools that look like WL.

The pushback is not about property values but about community cohesion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more I look at this the more I like moving 2315, 4815, 4818, 4829, 4899 to Yorktown, and 1202, 4604, 4606, 4612, 4695 to Wakefield. That avoids moving planning districts with high farms rates to Wakefield and it does move some to Yorktown. It doesn't take anyone out of a walk zone. 2315 is currently Swanson, tons of Swanson already goes to Yorktown. The rest are Jefferson. Similarly the Wakefield moves are Kenmore and Jefferson.

I did this as well. It makes sense but I'm sure there would be push back from the Lyon Park community. Wakefield is not good for property values.

I'm doing the same moves suggested above- connecting the island to Yorktown and moving Ashton Heights and Lyon village to Wakefield. Their property values won't budge. Especially after a year to two, because it would change the demographics at Wakefield, we'd have two schools that look like WL.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more I look at this the more I like moving 2315, 4815, 4818, 4829, 4899 to Yorktown, and 1202, 4604, 4606, 4612, 4695 to Wakefield. That avoids moving planning districts with high farms rates to Wakefield and it does move some to Yorktown. It doesn't take anyone out of a walk zone. 2315 is currently Swanson, tons of Swanson already goes to Yorktown. The rest are Jefferson. Similarly the Wakefield moves are Kenmore and Jefferson.

I did this as well. It makes sense but I'm sure there would be push back from the Lyon Park community. Wakefield is not good for property values.

Absolutely would be push back from Lyon Park because it doesn't make sense when you consider ES zones. I live in Ashton Heights and my unit is not in play but we want our ES kids to be able to stay together. It makes a lot more sense to keep Henry and Hoffman kids together through HS (and most of those units are not high FARMS either). With this adjustment you'd end up with just a fairly small group from TJ going to Wakefield (the Long Branch kids who live north of Pershing). I actually have no problem with Wakefield (since we're at TJ I know a lot of families with older kids there and they are very happy with it) but we're walkable to W-L and I strongly prefer to keep my kids walking to school.