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Anonymous wrote:All APS option schools have “self-selecting” parents, but no option school has managed to close the socioeconomic achievement gap like ATS has. That, if nothing else, is ATS’s best feature. All students are high achieving there, not just the ones who would be anyway.

Oh come on. At Montessori, two-thirds of slots are reserved for families with incomes that are at or below 80 percent of Arlington’s median income. Let's see ATS put that in place and see how you do with achievement gap. Montessori does excellent, by the way.

As someone who have direct inside knowledge, your statement is very mis-leading, ask APS to publish the real % of kids on free and reduced lunch at Montessori school and you'll see!! I can't say too much, but I know.

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Anonymous wrote:All APS option schools have “self-selecting” parents, but no option school has managed to close the socioeconomic achievement gap like ATS has. That, if nothing else, is ATS’s best feature. All students are high achieving there, not just the ones who would be anyway.

Oh come on. At Montessori, two-thirds of slots are reserved for families with incomes that are at or below 80 percent of Arlington’s median income. Let's see ATS put that in place and see how you do with achievement gap. Montessori does excellent, by the way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All APS option schools have “self-selecting” parents, but no option school has managed to close the socioeconomic achievement gap like ATS has. That, if nothing else, is ATS’s best feature. All students are high achieving there, not just the ones who would be anyway.

Oh come on. At Montessori, two-thirds of slots are reserved for families with incomes that are at or below 80 percent of Arlington’s median income. Let's see ATS put that in place and see how you do with achievement gap. Montessori does excellent, by the way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All APS option schools have “self-selecting” parents, but no option school has managed to close the socioeconomic achievement gap like ATS has. That, if nothing else, is ATS’s best feature. All students are high achieving there, not just the ones who would be anyway.

Oh come on. At Montessori, two-thirds of slots are reserved for families with incomes that are at or below 80 percent of Arlington’s median income. Let's see ATS put that in place and see how you do with achievement gap. Montessori does excellent, by the way.

You dragged up a thread that’s been dead for two weeks just post that?

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Anonymous wrote:All APS option schools have “self-selecting” parents, but no option school has managed to close the socioeconomic achievement gap like ATS has. That, if nothing else, is ATS’s best feature. All students are high achieving there, not just the ones who would be anyway.

Oh come on. At Montessori, two-thirds of slots are reserved for families with incomes that are at or below 80 percent of Arlington’s median income. Let's see ATS put that in place and see how you do with achievement gap. Montessori does excellent, by the way.

Anonymous wrote:All APS option schools have “self-selecting” parents, but no option school has managed to close the socioeconomic achievement gap like ATS has. That, if nothing else, is ATS’s best feature. All students are high achieving there, not just the ones who would be anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait! A new Safeway was shut down b/c Arlington wouldn't let the developer build it w/o affordable housing or because the developer wanted to add housing?

Because NIMBYS wanted new Safeway without any residential units. 3 blocks from a new target and a Harris Teeter.

Anonymous wrote:Wait! A new Safeway was shut down b/c Arlington wouldn't let the developer build it w/o affordable housing or because the developer wanted to add housing?

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Anonymous wrote:I won't engage with the "outraged" folks on ND about the dang trees. I love trees. I'd be pissed if APS was clearcutting everything, but they aren't. They are making sure the trees won't fall on houses or kids and adding back more than necessary. No one is going to stop the project. Oh, and as for the Westover flooding, APS is adding extra storm water retention to keep more onsite, therefore probably making more of a difference than the few trees that we regrettably lose.

You are afraid of trees falling on kids?

Anonymous wrote:I won't engage with the "outraged" folks on ND about the dang trees. I love trees. I'd be pissed if APS was clearcutting everything, but they aren't. They are making sure the trees won't fall on houses or kids and adding back more than necessary. No one is going to stop the project. Oh, and as for the Westover flooding, APS is adding extra storm water retention to keep more onsite, therefore probably making more of a difference than the few trees that we regrettably lose.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Westover and am floored by the half dozen senior citizens who are obsessed with literally four trees. They are calling to put the project on hold, after having started to pay attention to a years-long process literally a week ago. They don't speak for me and are definitely the problem.

Yes. They do not represent the neighborhood or the community. They are all older busybodies and seem to forget we are building a school, not a park. I was at the meeting for awhile and, although I came in late, I still got the just of what was going on. APS is actually planting more trees than are required by the county, but that isn't good enough. And, of course, other old people who paid no attention until now are all too happy to get riled up. I can't wait until the board the approves the design so they can focus their late-to-the-party-have-no-idea-how-the-process-worked activism on something else.

haha - I live near the Safeway in Bluemont (the one off Wilson and George Mason) and it's the same there. NIMBYs killed a new Safeway because they wouldn't allow ANYthing to go on that site. No negotiations. So... we live with a subpar grocery store where the refrigeration goes out once a month.

Soviet Safeway is an institution!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Westover and am floored by the half dozen senior citizens who are obsessed with literally four trees. They are calling to put the project on hold, after having started to pay attention to a years-long process literally a week ago. They don't speak for me and are definitely the problem.

Yes. They do not represent the neighborhood or the community. They are all older busybodies and seem to forget we are building a school, not a park. I was at the meeting for awhile and, although I came in late, I still got the just of what was going on. APS is actually planting more trees than are required by the county, but that isn't good enough. And, of course, other old people who paid no attention until now are all too happy to get riled up. I can't wait until the board the approves the design so they can focus their late-to-the-party-have-no-idea-how-the-process-worked activism on something else.

haha - I live near the Safeway in Bluemont (the one off Wilson and George Mason) and it's the same there. NIMBYs killed a new Safeway because they wouldn't allow ANYthing to go on that site. No negotiations. So... we live with a subpar grocery store where the refrigeration goes out once a month.

Really?? It’s like a time warp back to the grocery stores of my youth in the 80’s. I was wondering why they hadn’t updated it. Mystery solved.

They didn't want affordable housing there. That was proposed years ago, and that's what they fought against.

Are you sure it was affordable housing? Thought it was just apartments on top?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Westover and am floored by the half dozen senior citizens who are obsessed with literally four trees. They are calling to put the project on hold, after having started to pay attention to a years-long process literally a week ago. They don't speak for me and are definitely the problem.

Yes. They do not represent the neighborhood or the community. They are all older busybodies and seem to forget we are building a school, not a park. I was at the meeting for awhile and, although I came in late, I still got the just of what was going on. APS is actually planting more trees than are required by the county, but that isn't good enough. And, of course, other old people who paid no attention until now are all too happy to get riled up. I can't wait until the board the approves the design so they can focus their late-to-the-party-have-no-idea-how-the-process-worked activism on something else.

haha - I live near the Safeway in Bluemont (the one off Wilson and George Mason) and it's the same there. NIMBYs killed a new Safeway because they wouldn't allow ANYthing to go on that site. No negotiations. So... we live with a subpar grocery store where the refrigeration goes out once a month.

Really?? It’s like a time warp back to the grocery stores of my youth in the 80’s. I was wondering why they hadn’t updated it. Mystery solved.

They didn't want affordable housing there. That was proposed years ago, and that's what they fought against.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Westover and am floored by the half dozen senior citizens who are obsessed with literally four trees. They are calling to put the project on hold, after having started to pay attention to a years-long process literally a week ago. They don't speak for me and are definitely the problem.

Yes. They do not represent the neighborhood or the community. They are all older busybodies and seem to forget we are building a school, not a park. I was at the meeting for awhile and, although I came in late, I still got the just of what was going on. APS is actually planting more trees than are required by the county, but that isn't good enough. And, of course, other old people who paid no attention until now are all too happy to get riled up. I can't wait until the board the approves the design so they can focus their late-to-the-party-have-no-idea-how-the-process-worked activism on something else.

haha - I live near the Safeway in Bluemont (the one off Wilson and George Mason) and it's the same there. NIMBYs killed a new Safeway because they wouldn't allow ANYthing to go on that site. No negotiations. So... we live with a subpar grocery store where the refrigeration goes out once a month.