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Anonymous wrote:No one on staff or SB is going to change their mind about making Nottingham an option because you argue it’s too many buses. The buses will go wherever ATS goes. The fact that you keep arguing this shows how narrow minded your focus is. This is not about bus fumes in Nottingham. Try another argument. Maybe a new change.org petition. Try the governor.

All we want on the buses is for them to do a study of how they'd handle the traffic. We don't have the bus lane to accommodate all of those buses, so how are they going to manage them without blocking northbound Ohio Street, where will the parents driving their kids to school go if they don't have a drop-off lane, where will they add crossing guards so that kids who need to cross 16th and/or Ohio to walk to Tuckahoe can be safe when they're crossing paths with a dozen buses and 50+ cars, etc. If they do the study and show us a solid plan for how Nottingham will accommodate it all, then we will let up on the bus issue.

I like how Discovery does traffic. 36th St. N. is one way at certain times of the school day. Can we just do the same thing with Ohio street? That would help manage the traffic and buses around Nottingham.

Excellent idea. Please raise this to APS at some point.

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Anonymous wrote:No one on staff or SB is going to change their mind about making Nottingham an option because you argue it’s too many buses. The buses will go wherever ATS goes. The fact that you keep arguing this shows how narrow minded your focus is. This is not about bus fumes in Nottingham. Try another argument. Maybe a new change.org petition. Try the governor.

All we want on the buses is for them to do a study of how they'd handle the traffic. We don't have the bus lane to accommodate all of those buses, so how are they going to manage them without blocking northbound Ohio Street, where will the parents driving their kids to school go if they don't have a drop-off lane, where will they add crossing guards so that kids who need to cross 16th and/or Ohio to walk to Tuckahoe can be safe when they're crossing paths with a dozen buses and 50+ cars, etc. If they do the study and show us a solid plan for how Nottingham will accommodate it all, then we will let up on the bus issue.

I like how Discovery does traffic. 36th St. N. is one way at certain times of the school day. Can we just do the same thing with Ohio street? That would help manage the traffic and buses around Nottingham.

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Anonymous wrote:All of ASFS will be moving. There are families who live within the walk zone.

Every school will likely have new boundaries. All. Let that sink in.

Now please stop getting selfish and demanding that we move items between schools. Kids who are at one school in 2020 May get split between 2 or 3 schools depending on how the boundaries shake out. Would you want a precious mural cut in two and taken to the new schools? Aquarium cut in two?

Stop being selfish. We have a capacity crisis and we need people to stop being so parochial and think about the greater good instead of threatening to take their toys home and getting matching shirts.

At asfs there are currently five families who live in the walk zone. Let that sink in— those guys wearing matching yellow shirts who got teachers to also wear matching yellow shirts were literally all there at that school board meeting. There are no more of them. And they literally are the same ten people who have showed up repeatedly at school board office hours— using maiden names and arriving separately to make them seem more numerous than they are. This is the epitome of a minority loud voice selfishly disregarding the greater community to promote a very specific, selfish agenda.
So I think it’s very fair to ask that if they do set up a neighborhood school there, some portion of the science equipment move to different schools. Maybe move the flight simulator to taylor. How special would that be! And move the aquariums to Ashlawn or key or Long branch.

You must be confusing 5 new walk zone families who started at Science Focus this school year. My child finished Science Focus last year and I know of 5 on my street alone who are currently there and I’m aware of about 20 neighborhood families currently there. That does not consider those each year who wanted to get in and couldn’t because there have been no seats for these kids in recent years. When my older DC was there 10 years ago, the school was half team and half Key. In fact, we had a PTA president in past years from the walk area too so it’s not always been all about the children who live in the Key boundary as some would have others believe. People seem to have short memories and focusing on the current population in any one school will never solve any larger APS capacity problems.

Sounds like there are a lot of folks who live near Key who want to have a neighborhood school - I’m confused why people are upset that folks who live near Science Focus want a neighborhood school too … sounds like an odd double standard to me.

New poster here. They stopped the lottery three or four years ago so there are very few kids from that neighborhood that attend the school. It’s possible people who live in the walk zone lied about their address, but there are only a handful currently. There are only a hundred kids period from Taylor at asfs, and most of those are in the fifth grade and are from around Donaldson run. So it’s possible you know 20 families there currently, but it’s likely most of them are lying about their addresses to attend the school.
And I’m sorry but you have to focus on the current population when making decisions. Otherwise you’ll wonder why your pta got decimated because 90% of the school doesn’t attend it anymore.
I understand your neighborhood wants a neighborhood school. I think this is probably a good argument to just get rid of options or embed them the way highschools do it.

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Anonymous wrote:No one on staff or SB is going to change their mind about making Nottingham an option because you argue it’s too many buses. The buses will go wherever ATS goes. The fact that you keep arguing this shows how narrow minded your focus is. This is not about bus fumes in Nottingham. Try another argument. Maybe a new change.org petition. Try the governor.

All we want on the buses is for them to do a study of how they'd handle the traffic. We don't have the bus lane to accommodate all of those buses, so how are they going to manage them without blocking northbound Ohio Street, where will the parents driving their kids to school go if they don't have a drop-off lane, where will they add crossing guards so that kids who need to cross 16th and/or Ohio to walk to Tuckahoe can be safe when they're crossing paths with a dozen buses and 50+ cars, etc. If they do the study and show us a solid plan for how Nottingham will accommodate it all, then we will let up on the bus issue.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of ASFS will be moving. There are families who live within the walk zone.

Every school will likely have new boundaries. All. Let that sink in.

Now please stop getting selfish and demanding that we move items between schools. Kids who are at one school in 2020 May get split between 2 or 3 schools depending on how the boundaries shake out. Would you want a precious mural cut in two and taken to the new schools? Aquarium cut in two?

Stop being selfish. We have a capacity crisis and we need people to stop being so parochial and think about the greater good instead of threatening to take their toys home and getting matching shirts.

At asfs there are currently five families who live in the walk zone. Let that sink in— those guys wearing matching yellow shirts who got teachers to also wear matching yellow shirts were literally all there at that school board meeting. There are no more of them. And they literally are the same ten people who have showed up repeatedly at school board office hours— using maiden names and arriving separately to make them seem more numerous than they are. This is the epitome of a minority loud voice selfishly disregarding the greater community to promote a very specific, selfish agenda.
So I think it’s very fair to ask that if they do set up a neighborhood school there, some portion of the science equipment move to different schools. Maybe move the flight simulator to taylor. How special would that be! And move the aquariums to Ashlawn or key or Long branch.

You must be confusing 5 new walk zone families who started at Science Focus this school year. My child finished Science Focus last year and I know of 5 on my street alone who are currently there and I’m aware of about 20 neighborhood families currently there. That does not consider those each year who wanted to get in and couldn’t because there have been no seats for these kids in recent years. When my older DC was there 10 years ago, the school was half team and half Key. In fact, we had a PTA president in past years from the walk area too so it’s not always been all about the children who live in the Key boundary as some would have others believe. People seem to have short memories and focusing on the current population in any one school will never solve any larger APS capacity problems.

Sounds like there are a lot of folks who live near Key who want to have a neighborhood school - I’m confused why people are upset that folks who live near Science Focus want a neighborhood school too … sounds like an odd double standard to me.