If my kids weren't taking a packed bus (3-kids per seat this year) to an option school, they would still be taking up seats in our even further away and just as crowded neighborhood school. So options schools are not really extra schools because those seats still need to come from somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs.

Which school?

Either way it sounds like they didn’t pick it for the pedagogy. If a option program isn’t strong enough to survive a 2 mile move, why are we putting so many resources into it?

I don't think option schools are necessary more expensive. There may be more busing, but where we live there is no neighborhood school we can walk to anyways.

We need extra buses to go to the extra schools though.

I wonder how many, though. How many ATS students live in the walk zones for other schools? If there’s a neighborhood school two blocks from your house, your neighborhood vs option calculus may be different than if your kid is going to end up on a bus either way.

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Anonymous wrote:We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs.

Which school?

Either way it sounds like they didn’t pick it for the pedagogy. If a option program isn’t strong enough to survive a 2 mile move, why are we putting so many resources into it?

I don't think option schools are necessary more expensive. There may be more busing, but where we live there is no neighborhood school we can walk to anyways.

We need extra buses to go to the extra schools though.

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Anonymous wrote:We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs.

Which school?

Either way it sounds like they didn’t pick it for the pedagogy. If a option program isn’t strong enough to survive a 2 mile move, why are we putting so many resources into it?

I don't think option schools are necessary more expensive. There may be more busing, but where we live there is no neighborhood school we can walk to anyways.

Because these schools close the opportunity gap. Because our community can afford to do so. Because these schools help relieve overcrowding. Like many other families, option school families also have jobs and commutes and transportation logistics to consider.

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Anonymous wrote:We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs.

Which school?

Either way it sounds like they didn’t pick it for the pedagogy. If a option program isn’t strong enough to survive a 2 mile move, why are we putting so many resources into it?

I’m open to the possibility that moving option schools would present a significant burden to people, but it would be helpful to know what those significant burdens actually are. I think APS is sincere in their desire to provide supports during the transition, but people need to be willing to discuss their situations.

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Anonymous wrote:We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs.

Which school?

Either way it sounds like they didn’t pick it for the pedagogy. If a option program isn’t strong enough to survive a 2 mile move, why are we putting so many resources into it?

Anonymous wrote:We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs.

Which school?

We will have a tough decision to make if our option school moves. I'm not throwing a tantrum either, but the county has no idea how the moves will impact the option programs.

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Anonymous wrote:No way this is a done deal.

No, but it will be on Feb 6.

Remember when the superintendent declared the swap a done deal? I think they want the change, but I won’t be shocked if it falls through. I’m ready to move on to the next phase of the boundary process, which will probably be a bigger hotter mess than this.

Oh yeah. Right now you only have factions from three schools complaining. The boundary process is going to piss off a whole lot of people because it's *their kid* who has to move schools.

Yes. MANY more students will have to change schools via boundary changes if we don’t move programs. Not sure people realize that...

Even after they move schools, every school will have boundary changes.

Yep. There’s a good chance we will change schools possibly with only a small portion of our current school. It would be a bummer, but my child can adapt, so I’m not going to throw a tantrum if it makes sense for the broader community.

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Anonymous wrote:No way this is a done deal.

No, but it will be on Feb 6.

Remember when the superintendent declared the swap a done deal? I think they want the change, but I won’t be shocked if it falls through. I’m ready to move on to the next phase of the boundary process, which will probably be a bigger hotter mess than this.

Oh yeah. Right now you only have factions from three schools complaining. The boundary process is going to piss off a whole lot of people because it's *their kid* who has to move schools.

Yes. MANY more students will have to change schools via boundary changes if we don’t move programs. Not sure people realize that...

Even after they move schools, every school will have boundary changes.

Not as many changes as if the programs don't move ...

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Anonymous wrote:No way this is a done deal.

No, but it will be on Feb 6.

Remember when the superintendent declared the swap a done deal? I think they want the change, but I won’t be shocked if it falls through. I’m ready to move on to the next phase of the boundary process, which will probably be a bigger hotter mess than this.

Yes it will! I wonder how many people realize that every school will be impacted by boundary changes. Can't wait for the yelling when they realize.

And MORE kids will need to change schools if the programs don’t move.

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Anonymous wrote:No way this is a done deal.

No, but it will be on Feb 6.

Remember when the superintendent declared the swap a done deal? I think they want the change, but I won’t be shocked if it falls through. I’m ready to move on to the next phase of the boundary process, which will probably be a bigger hotter mess than this.

Oh yeah. Right now you only have factions from three schools complaining. The boundary process is going to piss off a whole lot of people because it's *their kid* who has to move schools.

Yes. MANY more students will have to change schools via boundary changes if we don’t move programs. Not sure people realize that...

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:No way this is a done deal.

No, but it will be on Feb 6.

Remember when the superintendent declared the swap a done deal? I think they want the change, but I won’t be shocked if it falls through. I’m ready to move on to the next phase of the boundary process, which will probably be a bigger hotter mess than this.

Yes it will! I wonder how many people realize that every school will be impacted by boundary changes. Can't wait for the yelling when they realize.

Lisa Stengle said last night re: Abingdon that the same scenarios as 2018 were going to come back because it's overcrowded. I assume that means part of Fairlington to Drew?

No. It means apartments south of columbia pike will go to an expanded Barcroft. It will make Barcroft like Carlin Springs. The CIP anticipates growth on the west end of the Pike, meaning move the kids to Barcroft. I heard it directly from a school board member.

No, because that SB member doesn’t know their a** from their elbow. That’s not happening. Abingdon needs relief, not Barcroft. Some bus riders to Abingdon are taking a bus to the half-empty and adjacent Drew.

In my crystal ball (which is cloudy, to be sure), I see S Fairlington moving to Drew in 2021 and in the longer term some of kids closer to Columbia Pike moving to Barcroft. They need to actually build an addition first, though.

Maybe, maybe not. They’ll only have money in the CIP for some things. They may need to spend some of it on expanding the ATS site for immersion. And they might expand/renovate Campbell, Barcroft, or Randolph. I think those were the 3 smaller, older schools that will be considered for renovation and expansion. I don’t know that Barcroft will be their first choice, or that they’d put an addition on only to bus poor kids across the Pike to a higher poverty ES. Doesn’t really make sense from a walkability or transportation standpoint, and certainly not from a demographic standpoint.

No matter what, there will be Abingdon kids moving, and Drew is the only adjacent school that is significantly under capacity and projected to remain so for the foreseeable future.

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Anonymous wrote:No way this is a done deal.

No, but it will be on Feb 6.

Remember when the superintendent declared the swap a done deal? I think they want the change, but I won’t be shocked if it falls through. I’m ready to move on to the next phase of the boundary process, which will probably be a bigger hotter mess than this.

Yes it will! I wonder how many people realize that every school will be impacted by boundary changes. Can't wait for the yelling when they realize.

Lisa Stengle said last night re: Abingdon that the same scenarios as 2018 were going to come back because it's overcrowded. I assume that means part of Fairlington to Drew?

No. It means apartments south of columbia pike will go to an expanded Barcroft. It will make Barcroft like Carlin Springs. The CIP anticipates growth on the west end of the Pike, meaning move the kids to Barcroft. I heard it directly from a school board member.

No, because that SB member doesn’t know their a** from their elbow. That’s not happening. Abingdon needs relief, not Barcroft. Some bus riders to Abingdon are taking a bus to the half-empty and adjacent Drew.

In my crystal ball (which is cloudy, to be sure), I see S Fairlington moving to Drew in 2021 and in the longer term some of kids closer to Columbia Pike moving to Barcroft. They need to actually build an addition first, though.