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Anonymous wrote:Anyone want to guess what the Discovery Boundary will look like once Nottingham becomes ATS/IB? Which PUs go to Jamestown and Taylor? I am curious how APS will fill Jamestown when Taylor will need students from the north.

Most of non-walkable Discovery will go to Jamestown, most of Nottingham north of Lee Higheay that can't walk to Tuckahoe will go to Discovery, which will allow Tuckahoe to keep a southwest boundary consistent with the Williamsburg boundary.

Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

I am so confused we recently moved into the Discovery area and now it looks like our current and future kids will not be able to go to Discovery. How can the school board do this? Our house we overpaid for will drop in value. What can we do to stop these unfair changes?

Your house is not going to lose value if you're zoned for Jamestown or Taylor instead. Let's not be melodramatic about the possible consequences up here.

-Nottingham parent

Please tell me that upon reflection you can see that pp is a troll.

Please tell me that upon reflection you can see that whether pp is a troll or not, lots of people in the community believe that's the way we really feel up here, and I felt there was value in pointing out that despite being a Nottingham parent who doesn't want my school to close, I can appreciate that this is not the coming of the apocalypse.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone want to guess what the Discovery Boundary will look like once Nottingham becomes ATS/IB? Which PUs go to Jamestown and Taylor? I am curious how APS will fill Jamestown when Taylor will need students from the north.

Most of non-walkable Discovery will go to Jamestown, most of Nottingham north of Lee Higheay that can't walk to Tuckahoe will go to Discovery, which will allow Tuckahoe to keep a southwest boundary consistent with the Williamsburg boundary.

Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

I am so confused we recently moved into the Discovery area and now it looks like our current and future kids will not be able to go to Discovery. How can the school board do this? Our house we overpaid for will drop in value. What can we do to stop these unfair changes?

Your house is not going to lose value if you're zoned for Jamestown or Taylor instead. Let's not be melodramatic about the possible consequences up here.

-Nottingham parent

Please tell me that upon reflection you can see that pp is a troll.

I have friends at both schools (and Discovery) and all seem pretty happy. The Discovery building is new and gorgeous, though, so the other two can't compare there!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone want to guess what the Discovery Boundary will look like once Nottingham becomes ATS/IB? Which PUs go to Jamestown and Taylor? I am curious how APS will fill Jamestown when Taylor will need students from the north.

Most of non-walkable Discovery will go to Jamestown, most of Nottingham north of Lee Higheay that can't walk to Tuckahoe will go to Discovery, which will allow Tuckahoe to keep a southwest boundary consistent with the Williamsburg boundary.

Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

I am so confused we recently moved into the Discovery area and now it looks like our current and future kids will not be able to go to Discovery. How can the school board do this? Our house we overpaid for will drop in value. What can we do to stop these unfair changes?

Your house is not going to lose value if you're zoned for Jamestown or Taylor instead. Let's not be melodramatic about the possible consequences up here.

-Nottingham parent

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone want to guess what the Discovery Boundary will look like once Nottingham becomes ATS/IB? Which PUs go to Jamestown and Taylor? I am curious how APS will fill Jamestown when Taylor will need students from the north.

Most of non-walkable Discovery will go to Jamestown, most of Nottingham north of Lee Higheay that can't walk to Tuckahoe will go to Discovery, which will allow Tuckahoe to keep a southwest boundary consistent with the Williamsburg boundary.

Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

I am so confused we recently moved into the Discovery area and now it looks like our current and future kids will not be able to go to Discovery. How can the school board do this? Our house we overpaid for will drop in value. What can we do to stop these unfair changes?

Anonymous wrote:Some friends of mine who were moved to Discovery when it opened and whose kids are now in sixth have told me they feel like the school’s no/very low homework policy and the general laxness within the school left their kids unprepared to manage middle school.

I have heard this from a Discovery parent as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

APS policy is that no child will have to move more than one time during a given school level (ES, MS, HS). A family with multiple children spread across a large number of grades may end up moving more than once, but an individual child will not have to. The Reed-related boundary changes won't happen until 2021. By that point no student in the elementary system will have had to make a school move, since the 2021 fifth graders are currently in first grade.

I didn't say students, I said families for exactly that reason. The disruption to families is a lesser concern than students, but it's still not a good thing.

It's not ideal, sure. APS is focused on educating our children and having sufficient seats for them. They aren't worried about parents having to make new friends.

It's not just about making new friends, it's about how engaged parents feel with a community. If you'be been at a school for several years and are at all inclined toward engagement and volunteering, you're probably pretty involved and will stay that way until your youngest moves on to middle school. But if you suddenly move to a. Ew school with only a couple of years left for your younges you're going be much much more likely to decide it's not worth it to start from scratch at a new place, so you're going to do other stuff. PTAs tend to suffer for a few years when you have big school changes like this, and while lots of families may not care if the fundraising drops off for a while, the staff does care when suddenly the PTA has to cut back on its classroom support because it can't raise enough money, when they struggle to find room parents for upper grades, etc. That concern isn't particular to any given school, but it should at least be acknowledged that when you dramatically change up a community too often, you hurt the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

APS policy is that no child will have to move more than one time during a given school level (ES, MS, HS). A family with multiple children spread across a large number of grades may end up moving more than once, but an individual child will not have to. The Reed-related boundary changes won't happen until 2021. By that point no student in the elementary system will have had to make a school move, since the 2021 fifth graders are currently in first grade.

I didn't say students, I said families for exactly that reason. The disruption to families is a lesser concern than students, but it's still not a good thing.

It's not ideal, sure. APS is focused on educating our children and having sufficient seats for them. They aren't worried about parents having to make new friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

APS policy is that no child will have to move more than one time during a given school level (ES, MS, HS). A family with multiple children spread across a large number of grades may end up moving more than once, but an individual child will not have to. The Reed-related boundary changes won't happen until 2021. By that point no student in the elementary system will have had to make a school move, since the 2021 fifth graders are currently in first grade.

I didn't say students, I said families for exactly that reason. The disruption to families is a lesser concern than students, but it's still not a good thing.

Anonymous wrote:Which means a lot of families will be facing their second elementary school move in seven years, some back to their original school but many to their third school.

APS policy is that no child will have to move more than one time during a given school level (ES, MS, HS). A family with multiple children spread across a large number of grades may end up moving more than once, but an individual child will not have to. The Reed-related boundary changes won't happen until 2021. By that point no student in the elementary system will have had to make a school move, since the 2021 fifth graders are currently in first grade.