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Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is basically the Jan of Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery. Perfectly fine in its own right, but a serious inferiority complex.

Tuckahoe used to be the red-headed stepchild of NW. But not anymore.

Even if they get rid of Nottingham, Tuckahoe will still play second fiddle to Discovery. If Marcia had ever fallen from grace, Cindy would still have been cuter.

For those of us in the rest of Arlington all the schools in NW seem exactly the same except for the fact that Discovery has a slide that we always hear about.

Don't forget about the handwashing station in the cafeteria.

Probably why they weren’t in the news for a notorious outbreak

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Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is basically the Jan of Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery. Perfectly fine in its own right, but a serious inferiority complex.

Tuckahoe used to be the red-headed stepchild of NW. But not anymore.

Even if they get rid of Nottingham, Tuckahoe will still play second fiddle to Discovery. If Marcia had ever fallen from grace, Cindy would still have been cuter.

For those of us in the rest of Arlington all the schools in NW seem exactly the same except for the fact that Discovery has a slide that we always hear about.

Don't forget about the handwashing station in the cafeteria.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is basically the Jan of Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery. Perfectly fine in its own right, but a serious inferiority complex.

Tuckahoe used to be the red-headed stepchild of NW. But not anymore.

Even if they get rid of Nottingham, Tuckahoe will still play second fiddle to Discovery. If Marcia had ever fallen from grace, Cindy would still have been cuter.

For those of us in the rest of Arlington all the schools in NW seem exactly the same except for the fact that Discovery has a slide that we always hear about.

Current McK family and PP is right. McK can hold 684, and we unfortunately know that with trailers you can get over 800 kids in there. It’s no fun to be this crowded, but from APS’s stance it gives them lots more flex as a neighborhood school in the NW then a smaller location like Tuckahoe or Nottingham. It also can become at least a bit more diverse. Can’t say the same thing for Tuckahoe or Nottingham unless the County ever puts AH on Lee Highway.

I hadn’t thought about ATS at Barcroft, interesting rationale.

Just a comment on the McKinley thoughts above. I have thought about this too, but I think the reason that McKinley has not come up as a potential option site has more to do with building capacity. APS needs to create ~250 new neighborhood seats in the NW to address the current overcapacity situation at McKinley and Glebe. If you open 725 new neighborhood seats at Reed, but then give up 680 neighborhood seats at McKinley, you have only created 45 new neighborhood seats which means trailers definitely needed at Tuckahoe & Nottingham. In contrast, if you pick a smaller NW building as a choice school, then APS picks up the necessary number of new neighborhood seats (e.g., opening Reed as neighborhood, but giving up Nottingham, still produces a net gain of 225 new neighborhood seats). Also, keeping Ashlawn and McKinley as neighborhood schools gives APS more flexibility when it comes to drawing boundaries with SES diversity. For example, Reed gets the Westover Apartments, McKinley gets the Patrick Henry Apartments at Wilson & McKinley Rd, and Ashlawn pulls across Route 50 or even takes some of the Barrett PUs. Also, this ensures that APS has additional flexibility in the event that one of those dumpy commercial sites on Wilson ends up a new APAH project (e.g., the Bluemont Safeway) and infuses a bunch of new kids into the system. I am sure they have mapped this out at APS. I completely agree that McKinley especially is going to end up with a long skinny boundary that runs up Wilson Blvd, but that's what they have always had because Bluemont ends up split between McKinley and Ashlawn with the loss of the ATS site.

Anonymous wrote:You see, Tuckahoe probably has the lowest average home value of these schools and is therefore lesser than. We at Nottingham are superior because we wouldn’t be caught dead with a house appraised at a mere 750k in our boundaries.

But, please take us as sincere when we argue that all option schools should be located centrally so the poor folk in S Arlington can maybe go there.

It’s not that. It’s stuff like how their PTA board pitched a fit over the idea of requiring that no nut-containing foods be brought into nut-free classrooms containing children with anaphylactic nut allergies, and instead felt it would be a much better solution if parents of said children just kept their kids home on class party days. Totally not assholes. Nope, not at all.

You see, Tuckahoe probably has the lowest average home value of these schools and is therefore lesser than. We at Nottingham are superior because we wouldn’t be caught dead with a house appraised at a mere 750k in our boundaries.

But, please take us as sincere when we argue that all option schools should be located centrally so the poor folk in S Arlington can maybe go there.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is basically the Jan of Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery. Perfectly fine in its own right, but a serious inferiority complex.

Tuckahoe used to be the red-headed stepchild of NW. But not anymore.

Even if they get rid of Nottingham, Tuckahoe will still play second fiddle to Discovery. If Marcia had ever fallen from grace, Cindy would still have been cuter.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is basically the Jan of Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery. Perfectly fine in its own right, but a serious inferiority complex.

Tuckahoe used to be the red-headed stepchild of NW. But not anymore.

Used to be?

Anonymous wrote:Tuckahoe is basically the Jan of Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery. Perfectly fine in its own right, but a serious inferiority complex.

Tuckahoe used to be the red-headed stepchild of NW. But not anymore.

Tuckahoe is basically the Jan of Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery. Perfectly fine in its own right, but a serious inferiority complex.

Anonymous wrote:Which is better Tuckahoe or Discovery?

They're both good schools. Discovery's test scores are a little better overall and they have a nicer physical plant, but your kids will be fine at either school.

Which is better Tuckahoe or Discovery?

Anonymous wrote:What in this thread says anything that anyone at Tuckahoe has said boo about boundaries?

How about you sober up and try that again.

What in this thread says anything that anyone at Tuckahoe has said boo about boundaries?