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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

Np. Moving to SA is too much of an ask. You’d find me in Ashburn before SA.

Why would it be too much an ask?

Because I don’t care for it,

Then you are a snob.

I don’t think so.

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

Np. Moving to SA is too much of an ask. You’d find me in Ashburn before SA.

Why would it be too much an ask?

Because I don’t care for it,

Then you are a snob.

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

Np. Moving to SA is too much of an ask. You’d find me in Ashburn before SA.

Why would it be too much an ask?

Because I don’t care for it,

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

Np. Moving to SA is too much of an ask. You’d find me in Ashburn before SA.

Why would it be too much an ask?

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

Np. Moving to SA is too much of an ask. You’d find me in Ashburn before SA.

Wow! SA has so much to offer. No way would I trade an extra 90 minutes commuting each way (3 hours) with living in Ashburn!

What does it have to offer that any other place here doesn’t? (Other than a good commute into DC.)

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

Np. Moving to SA is too much of an ask. You’d find me in Ashburn before SA.

Wow! SA has so much to offer. No way would I trade an extra 90 minutes commuting each way (3 hours) with living in Ashburn!

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

Np. Moving to SA is too much of an ask. You’d find me in Ashburn before SA.

Anonymous wrote:"just move" isn't really answer. If somebody owns their home, transaction fees for realtors alone are 12% (6 on the sale, 6 on the buy).

McK is a little chaotic...well, a lot chaotic. When will that cause a real harm? I think soon. They are going to lose a kid, or one will get hurt; something.

As for why the McK teachers left, the word "bully" comes to mind...

You paid a six percent commission as a buyer? That would be a whoops.

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

When we moved into the neighborhood we were zoned for Tuckahoe. Then Nottingham. Then McK. So...you're very much mistaken that we paid a premium to live in the McK zone.

You're paying a premium to live in any of those three schools zones.

You don’t know what I paid for my house, but what does it even have to do with the discussion at hand? Anyone who pays “a premium” deserves to go to an overcrowded school? Otherwise I need to move? That’s absurd.

You said the school is overcrowded. I said you could move to SA and go to a school at or below capacity. I don't need to know what you paid for your house to state a simple fact: people in NA pay a premium to live in crowded school district even though less expensive housing and uncrowded schools exist 3 miles south in the same school district. Me telling you to move because you're conplaining about crowded schools is as valid as NA parents telling SA parents who complain about "school quality" to move to fairfax. On the whole: get some perspective. You live in the wealthiest part of one of the wealthiest counties in America, and your kid has to rub shoulders with other advantaged kids? Boohoo. You'll get that slide too. Just be patient.

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

When we moved into the neighborhood we were zoned for Tuckahoe. Then Nottingham. Then McK. So...you're very much mistaken that we paid a premium to live in the McK zone.

You're paying a premium to live in any of those three schools zones.

You don’t know what I paid for my house, but what does it even have to do with the discussion at hand? Anyone who pays “a premium” deserves to go to an overcrowded school? Otherwise I need to move? That’s absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:It just has to hold on until 2021 (which I know isn't thrilling for the people currently living it). Once Reed opens, as long as the SB doesn't screw things up with option sites, I think one of the goals will be to get rid of trailers at McKinley.

As I pointed out a month or two ago that means over 1,000 kids will have spent part of all of their elementary experience in that disaster.

There's room at a few SA elementaries. Families in the MCKinley zone are choosing to live there and paying a premium to do so. Just move. That's what people tell SA families who aren't satisfied with their local school situation.

When we moved into the neighborhood we were zoned for Tuckahoe. Then Nottingham. Then McK. So...you're very much mistaken that we paid a premium to live in the McK zone.

You're paying a premium to live in any of those three schools zones.

Anonymous wrote:"just move" isn't really answer. If somebody owns their home, transaction fees for realtors alone are 12% (6 on the sale, 6 on the buy).

McK is a little chaotic...well, a lot chaotic. When will that cause a real harm? I think soon. They are going to lose a kid, or one will get hurt; something.

As for why the McK teachers left, the word "bully" comes to mind...

Teacher bullying? By the principal, other staff, parents? Do tell since this sounds like made up gossip.

This is the 6% poster.

We purchased 12 years ago so no, I don't know my way around real estate and don't want to buy/sell again until realtors get "disintermediated". I really dislike most of them. Since the internet was invented, they have not earned their 6$. (or 4, or whatever).

When we bought, we were zoned for another school, not McK either.

Nottingham has 4 K classes of about 20 kids each.

FCC had 8.

Anonymous wrote:I heard rumor that McK was going to have 7. McK had 6 last year and 5 the previous two years. I think the total will climb then to 825. WHere's the breaking point?

That is not good news. My last has one more year at that school and his experience has been a lot different than his older siblings. There are just too many kids, not enough play space, and their are a lot more behavior problems. His grade, in particular, was filled with bad attitudes and parents who were really difficult. Maybe that is why almost the whole grade of teachers bailed from the school.