Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:24     Subject: Re:APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guessing that several DWs are yelling at their DHs that “we should have bought in the 22207! They’re always safe!”


Bingo, tried to save a free bucks, now losing big bucks and maybe need to pay for private.

Lesson learned when it comes to your family and kids don't settle or try to get a deal go for Nottingham or Tuckahoe zones


Go take a pill, chicken little.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:23     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


What on earth are you talking about?


Going from a 10 school to a 7.


Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:22     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
The priority for border areas ( south Arlington), is not for the North. The North remembers.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:21     Subject: Re:APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:Guessing that several DWs are yelling at their DHs that “we should have bought in the 22207! They’re always safe!”


Bingo, tried to save a free bucks, now losing big bucks and maybe need to pay for private.

Lesson learned when it comes to your family and kids don't settle or try to get a deal go for Nottingham or Tuckahoe zones
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:21     Subject: Re:APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:Guessing that several DWs are yelling at their DHs that “we should have bought in the 22207! They’re always safe!”


This is such an odd statement. What are these McKinley families going through that 22206 families haven’t faced? All were ultimately talking about is the possibility of being reasoned to a different elementary school, which had happened in every zip code in the past five years.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:21     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


What on earth are you talking about?


Yes, the area of Dominion Hills currently zoned for Ashlawn is absolutely 300k less expensive than the McKinley part, because of that subpar education received from the ghetto school on the other side of Wilsom

Your public school education IS an entitlement, going to the school you want IS NOT.

Also, last time I checked, the school district is supposed to make decisions for the good of the county as a whole, not for the exclusive good of entitled rude rich people...


Change is hard for people in Arlington.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:19     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


What on earth are you talking about?


Going from a 10 school to a 7.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:17     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


No. She doesn't. Her kids will be fine. Ashlawn isn't some insane, garbage school. It's wonderful and you people are disgusting. When DH moves to Ashlawn, are they going to junk it up? Is that the concern?



With idiot moms like that I’d be concerned about DH joining if I were a current Ashlawn parent.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:17     Subject: Re:APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Guessing that several DWs are yelling at their DHs that “we should have bought in the 22207! They’re always safe!”
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:16     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


And you are 100% stupid.

Where did you learn how to do math? Your MLM “business”?

Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:15     Subject: Re:APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They’re bringing the public in much later in the process, once the decision is all but made. Gone are the days of six different options for the community to rank and considering the community’s preference in selecting the ultimate recommendation, instead we now get one option that they’re going to go with, one alternative designed to push people to support the intended recommendation, and an explanation for why they chose the option they’ll be recommending.

Granted, I think this is better because the community showed it can’t handle having real input in the process, but it is different.


And thank goodness for that!
In some fairness, though, I really don't think they have a lot of options to seriously consider, let alone put forward. And this week's presentation helped illustrate that when they went through the various scenarios and explained why they didn't move them forward.


This 'process' is BS, seems like yesterday they were doing the Key / ASFS swap, before that the option school was moving to Nottingham and now McKinley is the target. Has the 'data' really changed that much?
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:14     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


What on earth are you talking about?


Yes, the area of Dominion Hills currently zoned for Ashlawn is absolutely 300k less expensive than the McKinley part, because of that subpar education received from the ghetto school on the other side of Wilsom

Your public school education IS an entitlement, going to the school you want IS NOT.

Also, last time I checked, the school district is supposed to make decisions for the good of the county as a whole, not for the exclusive good of entitled rude rich people...
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:12     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


What on earth are you talking about?


pp is the crazy who keeps coming in here to rant about GS scores and home values, his theories of which have zero basis in reality. Best to ignore him.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:12     Subject: Re:APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:The Staff can't win here. If they produce a well thought out plan and defend it, they are accused of not listening to community feedback and having a predetermined outcome.
If they put out their initial thoughts as plans they are accused of coming up with half baked plans without doing the work to back it up.
Here- they clearly spent the summer working on the best plans they could get to. They are 'showing their work' in that in the engagement sessions they are showing some other plans they thought about and why they discarded them.


This.
Anonymous
Post 12/11/2019 08:11     Subject: APS Elementary Planning Mtg at Swanson - Option 1 in, Option 2 out, McKinley Moms out of contro
Anonymous wrote:She's has the right to be pissed, the school isn't going to compensate her for the 30% drop in education quality and house value.


No. She doesn't. Her kids will be fine. Ashlawn isn't some insane, garbage school. It's wonderful and you people are disgusting. When DH moves to Ashlawn, are they going to junk it up? Is that the concern?