Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the Hamm people complaining, what is your proposal to fill Williamsburg then? Who should get bused over there? Not your children. We’ve got that.

Restore the “Rosslyn Island.” The Rosslyn students in high density housing were zoned to Williamsburg up until 2019 or so when the boundaries last changed. No one except APS staff complained about it since it looked “weird.”

It contributed to socio-economic diversity and also helped fill the school since Williamsburg is in an area of low density single family homes.

Rosslyn families complained. But I guess they shouldn’t have a voice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found you also need to see the planning units to understand the maps in Appendix H. Here is the link:

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PlanningUnitReferenceMap_FiveColor_2020.pdf

We live three minutes from DHMS (walking) and they are going to bus my child to WMS.

append H
Map 3 has most of Taylor going WMS.

Map 4 splits Taylor in half WMS and DMHS

Why does proposed shaded boundaries change from 3 to 4??

But in all cases a HUGE portion of walkable DHMS are bused to WMS.

And splitting an elementary school — I thought they wanted to stop that.

Map 4 shows no immersion move, just boundary changes

Anonymous wrote:For the Hamm people complaining, what is your proposal to fill Williamsburg then? Who should get bused over there? Not your children. We’ve got that.

Restore the “Rosslyn Island.” The Rosslyn students in high density housing were zoned to Williamsburg up until 2019 or so when the boundaries last changed. No one except APS staff complained about it since it looked “weird.”

It contributed to socio-economic diversity and also helped fill the school since Williamsburg is in an area of low density single family homes.

Anonymous wrote:Walkable is never going to be the primary factor APS uses in boundaries. It’s impossible to do so. Some of you won’t get to walk.

It still makes no sense that homes one block away within view of Hamm Middle School itself would be bussed to Williamsburg.

For the Hamm people complaining, what is your proposal to fill Williamsburg then? Who should get bused over there? Not your children. We’ve got that.

Walkable is never going to be the primary factor APS uses in boundaries. It’s impossible to do so. Some of you won’t get to walk.

I have a rising 5th grader and we will be rezoned to a different school if this passes. Does that mean she has to switch after 6th grade?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You will like Williamsburg though. Great school.

I've heard nothing good about it. No thanks.

+1

Anonymous wrote:Why can't they just move Montessori middle school to Williamsburg? They're already being bused.

I kind of wonder this too. I actually think for Montessori it would (education philosophy wise) make sense make it K-8 but I don't know if that would be possible to fit in at the ACC site.

Anonymous wrote:I found you also need to see the planning units to understand the maps in Appendix H. Here is the link:

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PlanningUnitReferenceMap_FiveColor_2020.pdf

We live three minutes from DHMS (walking) and they are going to bus my child to WMS.

append H
Map 3 has most of Taylor going WMS.

Map 4 splits Taylor in half WMS and DMHS

Why does proposed shaded boundaries change from 3 to 4??

But in all cases a HUGE portion of walkable DHMS are bused to WMS.

And splitting an elementary school — I thought they wanted to stop that.

Why can't they just move Montessori middle school to Williamsburg? They're already being bused.

I found you also need to see the planning units to understand the maps in Appendix H. Here is the link:

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PlanningUnitReferenceMap_FiveColor_2020.pdf

We live three minutes from DHMS (walking) and they are going to bus my child to WMS.

Wow. We can walk to Cardinal and Swanson. Got rezoned to tuckahoe and now getting rezoned to Williamsburg. Ridiculous

Anonymous wrote:Where can we see new boundaries?

Page 156 of 272 pages in the PDF if using Acrobat.

(The printed page numbers are different.)

Anonymous wrote:Where can we see new boundaries?

It's in Appendix H of Pre-CIP report linked on Engage page