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I was there tonight and she was threatening. Completely disgusting behavior. She was the worst but there were other McKinley people in the hall who were pretty bad. There were two neighbors who were horrified that buses would be driving through their neighborhood to McKinley as they walked to Ashlawn - seriously!!! They should be glad they are walkable either way.

My takeaways were:
- Large majority of McKinley will be walkers in the proposal
- ASFS population and surrounding is so large they can absorb ASFS and Key
- ATS can keep their name. They will be like HB move this year -everyone will go because they love the program.
- Key can move intact. Some people were only going there because it was close. Their population will fit in ATS just fine.
- Need to preserve VPI and ensure those classes are in the right places to best serve high rush populations.
- McKinley parents are possibly the worst in Arlington. They tried to throw other schools under the bus and when their arguments didn’t make sense, they just yelled.

Bottom line is that the McKinley mom may stroke out but her neighbors and their kids will be just fine. No different than the Fleet or Discovery redistricting.

Which schools did they try to throw under the bus and what were the arguments.

So bummed the recording isn’t available, hopefully tomorrow.


They kept screaming about Ashlawn like it was a Super Max prison. Why not Tuckaoe or Nottingham. Screaming that other schools would be under capacity. Psychos.


I would be angry if I paid and was zoned for a 10 school and got moved to 7 school which is a 30% drop which will show in home values and school quality.

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/111-Ashlawn-Elementary-School/

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/124-McKinley-Elementary-School/


Yeah, so what. No one cares about those who got rezoned from the former Henry to Drew. Being angry solves nothing.


As a former Henry parent who got rezoned to Drew, I am LOVING watching this whole process unfold. Parents having strokes because their snowflakes are getting moved from one amazing North Arlington School to a DIFFERENT amazing North Arlington school. Unbelievable. Also, could people please stop comparing the Fleet redistricting to the Discovery redistricting please? Again, this was moving children from a great school to another great school. Entirely different scenario.

Yes, you were being moved to an essentially new school and new program in a nicer and larger facility with a fantastic principal. It's totally different - there's no slide inside Drew.


True. No students either. Plenty of space to move around!


OMG.

I mean there are some students -and we know that 60% of them are FRL.

But overall WOW - In the context of people having a public nervous breakdown about moving from a GS10 to a GS7 school its pretty obtuse to pretend that moving from old Henry to Drew is an improvement cause there is a new principle and a nice building. PP must have absolutely no idea what or where Drew even is.

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I was there tonight and she was threatening. Completely disgusting behavior. She was the worst but there were other McKinley people in the hall who were pretty bad. There were two neighbors who were horrified that buses would be driving through their neighborhood to McKinley as they walked to Ashlawn - seriously!!! They should be glad they are walkable either way.

My takeaways were:
- Large majority of McKinley will be walkers in the proposal
- ASFS population and surrounding is so large they can absorb ASFS and Key
- ATS can keep their name. They will be like HB move this year -everyone will go because they love the program.
- Key can move intact. Some people were only going there because it was close. Their population will fit in ATS just fine.
- Need to preserve VPI and ensure those classes are in the right places to best serve high rush populations.
- McKinley parents are possibly the worst in Arlington. They tried to throw other schools under the bus and when their arguments didn’t make sense, they just yelled.

Bottom line is that the McKinley mom may stroke out but her neighbors and their kids will be just fine. No different than the Fleet or Discovery redistricting.

Which schools did they try to throw under the bus and what were the arguments.

So bummed the recording isn’t available, hopefully tomorrow.


They kept screaming about Ashlawn like it was a Super Max prison. Why not Tuckaoe or Nottingham. Screaming that other schools would be under capacity. Psychos.


I would be angry if I paid and was zoned for a 10 school and got moved to 7 school which is a 30% drop which will show in home values and school quality.

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/111-Ashlawn-Elementary-School/

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/124-McKinley-Elementary-School/


Yeah, so what. No one cares about those who got rezoned from the former Henry to Drew. Being angry solves nothing.


As a former Henry parent who got rezoned to Drew, I am LOVING watching this whole process unfold. Parents having strokes because their snowflakes are getting moved from one amazing North Arlington School to a DIFFERENT amazing North Arlington school. Unbelievable. Also, could people please stop comparing the Fleet redistricting to the Discovery redistricting please? Again, this was moving children from a great school to another great school. Entirely different scenario.

Yes, you were being moved to an essentially new school and new program in a nicer and larger facility with a fantastic principal. It's totally different - there's no slide inside Drew.


True. No students either. Plenty of space to move around!


OMG.

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Anonymous wrote:I was there tonight and she was threatening. Completely disgusting behavior. She was the worst but there were other McKinley people in the hall who were pretty bad. There were two neighbors who were horrified that buses would be driving through their neighborhood to McKinley as they walked to Ashlawn - seriously!!! They should be glad they are walkable either way.

My takeaways were:
- Large majority of McKinley will be walkers in the proposal
- ASFS population and surrounding is so large they can absorb ASFS and Key
- ATS can keep their name. They will be like HB move this year -everyone will go because they love the program.
- Key can move intact. Some people were only going there because it was close. Their population will fit in ATS just fine.
- Need to preserve VPI and ensure those classes are in the right places to best serve high rush populations.
- McKinley parents are possibly the worst in Arlington. They tried to throw other schools under the bus and when their arguments didn’t make sense, they just yelled.

Bottom line is that the McKinley mom may stroke out but her neighbors and their kids will be just fine. No different than the Fleet or Discovery redistricting.

Which schools did they try to throw under the bus and what were the arguments.

So bummed the recording isn’t available, hopefully tomorrow.

They kept screaming about Ashlawn like it was a Super Max prison. Why not Tuckaoe or Nottingham. Screaming that other schools would be under capacity. Psychos.

I would be angry if I paid and was zoned for a 10 school and got moved to 7 school which is a 30% drop which will show in home values and school quality.

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/111-Ashlawn-Elementary-School/

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/124-McKinley-Elementary-School/

Yeah, so what. No one cares about those who got rezoned from the former Henry to Drew. Being angry solves nothing.

As a former Henry parent who got rezoned to Drew, I am LOVING watching this whole process unfold. Parents having strokes because their snowflakes are getting moved from one amazing North Arlington School to a DIFFERENT amazing North Arlington school. Unbelievable. Also, could people please stop comparing the Fleet redistricting to the Discovery redistricting please? Again, this was moving children from a great school to another great school. Entirely different scenario.

Yes, you were being moved to an essentially new school and new program in a nicer and larger facility with a fantastic principal. It's totally different - there's no slide inside Drew.

True. No students either. Plenty of space to move around!

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Anonymous wrote:I was there tonight and she was threatening. Completely disgusting behavior. She was the worst but there were other McKinley people in the hall who were pretty bad. There were two neighbors who were horrified that buses would be driving through their neighborhood to McKinley as they walked to Ashlawn - seriously!!! They should be glad they are walkable either way.

My takeaways were:
- Large majority of McKinley will be walkers in the proposal
- ASFS population and surrounding is so large they can absorb ASFS and Key
- ATS can keep their name. They will be like HB move this year -everyone will go because they love the program.
- Key can move intact. Some people were only going there because it was close. Their population will fit in ATS just fine.
- Need to preserve VPI and ensure those classes are in the right places to best serve high rush populations.
- McKinley parents are possibly the worst in Arlington. They tried to throw other schools under the bus and when their arguments didn’t make sense, they just yelled.

Bottom line is that the McKinley mom may stroke out but her neighbors and their kids will be just fine. No different than the Fleet or Discovery redistricting.

Which schools did they try to throw under the bus and what were the arguments.

So bummed the recording isn’t available, hopefully tomorrow.

They kept screaming about Ashlawn like it was a Super Max prison. Why not Tuckaoe or Nottingham. Screaming that other schools would be under capacity. Psychos.

I would be angry if I paid and was zoned for a 10 school and got moved to 7 school which is a 30% drop which will show in home values and school quality.

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/111-Ashlawn-Elementary-School/

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/124-McKinley-Elementary-School/

Yeah, so what. No one cares about those who got rezoned from the former Henry to Drew. Being angry solves nothing.

As a former Henry parent who got rezoned to Drew, I am LOVING watching this whole process unfold. Parents having strokes because their snowflakes are getting moved from one amazing North Arlington School to a DIFFERENT amazing North Arlington school. Unbelievable. Also, could people please stop comparing the Fleet redistricting to the Discovery redistricting please? Again, this was moving children from a great school to another great school. Entirely different scenario.

Yes, you were being moved to an essentially new school and new program in a nicer and larger facility with a fantastic principal. It's totally different - there's no slide inside Drew.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the crazies outed herself on AEM.

Her post:

Well now you have me! What you don’t get to hear in the video because they ended it early or cut me out was me standing up telling the SB they should be ashamed of themselves for how they are ignoring the community! I also looked Reid Goldstein in the face and told him he should be ashamed as well. Why should we be polite when they refuse to listen to us??

It gets better:

I take being called Rosa Parks a compliment. THANK YOU! I will never accept being ignored. No one should!

Pretty sure the idiot who brought up Rosa Parks fancies himself the wokest of white dudes. Doh!

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Anonymous wrote:I was there tonight and she was threatening. Completely disgusting behavior. She was the worst but there were other McKinley people in the hall who were pretty bad. There were two neighbors who were horrified that buses would be driving through their neighborhood to McKinley as they walked to Ashlawn - seriously!!! They should be glad they are walkable either way.

My takeaways were:
- Large majority of McKinley will be walkers in the proposal
- ASFS population and surrounding is so large they can absorb ASFS and Key
- ATS can keep their name. They will be like HB move this year -everyone will go because they love the program.
- Key can move intact. Some people were only going there because it was close. Their population will fit in ATS just fine.
- Need to preserve VPI and ensure those classes are in the right places to best serve high rush populations.
- McKinley parents are possibly the worst in Arlington. They tried to throw other schools under the bus and when their arguments didn’t make sense, they just yelled.

Bottom line is that the McKinley mom may stroke out but her neighbors and their kids will be just fine. No different than the Fleet or Discovery redistricting.

Which schools did they try to throw under the bus and what were the arguments.

So bummed the recording isn’t available, hopefully tomorrow.

They kept screaming about Ashlawn like it was a Super Max prison. Why not Tuckaoe or Nottingham. Screaming that other schools would be under capacity. Psychos.

I would be angry if I paid and was zoned for a 10 school and got moved to 7 school which is a 30% drop which will show in home values and school quality.

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/111-Ashlawn-Elementary-School/

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/124-McKinley-Elementary-School/

Yeah, so what. No one cares about those who got rezoned from the former Henry to Drew. Being angry solves nothing.

As a former Henry parent who got rezoned to Drew, I am LOVING watching this whole process unfold. Parents having strokes because their snowflakes are getting moved from one amazing North Arlington School to a DIFFERENT amazing North Arlington school. Unbelievable. Also, could people please stop comparing the Fleet redistricting to the Discovery redistricting please? Again, this was moving children from a great school to another great school. Entirely different scenario.

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don’t get the persistence about Key immersion not moving. The staff said ATS is a better location for immersion. Staffers are professionals. i trust them.

+1 All the hysterics on AEM are about won't anyone think of the poor, underprivileged children at Key! But that's all they care about, the specific subset of kids at Key (which can't fill its 50% Native Spanish quota). They don't care about underprivileged children near Key who can't/don't want to go to immersion and would be better served by a neighborhood school. Or underprivileged children who are closer to ATS and would be better served by that location, and more likely to choose it for their kids if it was closer to the concentration of Spanish speakers. And, if you point that out, you are racist.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't wait for the longform Atlantic article to come out about this process and APS moms.

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Anonymous wrote:Ashlawn parent here, we love the school and all I want is for my kids to be able to stay there! So crazy to me that someone is ranting about not wanting her kid to go to a really great school...

To be fair, she was also ranting about an imagined check writing campaign and seemed to think she was yelling at the SB. She’s not dealing with a full deck.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the crazies outed herself on AEM.

Her post:

Well now you have me! What you don’t get to hear in the video because they ended it early or cut me out was me standing up telling the SB they should be ashamed of themselves for how they are ignoring the community! I also looked Reid Goldstein in the face and told him he should be ashamed as well. Why should we be polite when they refuse to listen to us??

Not just one of the crazies but the #1 crazy. Ashlawn, watch out for her. She is tearing into everyone including those who want the same outcome she does.

Can we please please please go with “McKrazy”?

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Anonymous wrote:One of the crazies outed herself on AEM.

Her post:

Well now you have me! What you don’t get to hear in the video because they ended it early or cut me out was me standing up telling the SB they should be ashamed of themselves for how they are ignoring the community! I also looked Reid Goldstein in the face and told him he should be ashamed as well. Why should we be polite when they refuse to listen to us??

Not just one of the crazies but the #1 crazy. Ashlawn, watch out for her. She is tearing into everyone including those who want the same outcome she does.

Can we please please please go with “McKrazy”?

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Anonymous wrote:One of the crazies outed herself on AEM.

Her post:

Well now you have me! What you don’t get to hear in the video because they ended it early or cut me out was me standing up telling the SB they should be ashamed of themselves for how they are ignoring the community! I also looked Reid Goldstein in the face and told him he should be ashamed as well. Why should we be polite when they refuse to listen to us??

Not just one of the crazies but the #1 crazy. Ashlawn, watch out for her. She is tearing into everyone including those who want the same outcome she does.