As it is at my sons school have the time they don’t have enough bus drivers so they double up in one bus and it takes 50 minutes to get home from a school two miles away but the diversity plan would more than double the amount of kids riding the bus

Anonymous wrote:The bus money that would have to be spent in the diversity plan could be better used to increase quality of education in our schools

Yes that would seem to be the ideal for the school system but so much easier for APS to ( ignore the problems within the schools) implement the bandaid solutions.

The bus money that would have to be spent in the diversity plan could be better used to increase quality of education in our schools

F’’k the people who call us parents racist just because we don’t like the far distance from the school plus Arlington County would have to spend a lot of money to bus people around in that diversity plan.

Anonymous wrote:No time to read the whole thread but is the gist that moving some areas to the new Stratford middle school could turn both Kenmore and Jefferson into super-high poverty schools? What about Gunston?

Gunston is between 38-40% fr/l in each scenario, so it's higher than present (33%). I hadn't realized that it's going up at Gunston, too, in every single scenario. What stood out to me was the capacity, while going down, is still over in most scenarios. In 4/5 scenarios Gunston remains above 110% capacity. Only scenario H (demographics blended w/proximity has Gunston below, at 109%). I plan to suggest via Engage that perhaps they could move the MS Spanish Immersion program to Kenmore, which looks to be between 97%-105% capacity in each scenario, and is more centrally located if they're only going to have one MS immersion program for the county.

Anonymous wrote:what would make sense it to move the middle school immersion program to Kenmore. That would be a more centralized location then its current location at Gunston. If Kenmore is the school that most people want to avoid (a premise I reject btw) then putting a magnet program there makes sense.

It’s no secret that Kenmore is at the bottom of the list.
- South Arlington parent

what would make sense it to move the middle school immersion program to Kenmore. That would be a more centralized location then its current location at Gunston. If Kenmore is the school that most people want to avoid (a premise I reject btw) then putting a magnet program there makes sense.

No time to read the whole thread but is the gist that moving some areas to the new Stratford middle school could turn both Kenmore and Jefferson into super-high poverty schools? What about Gunston?

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Anonymous wrote:what a totally bizarre argument we are having-
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/800+N+Arlington+Mill+Dr,+Arlington,+VA+22205/Kenmore+Middle+School,+South+Carlin+Springs+Road,+Arlington,+VA/@38.8701551,-77.1345066,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b46823729e0d:0x346bbd1be6f02b9!2m2!1d-77.1345243!2d38.8748333!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b471f16a5c3f:0xdbc7abaf792e51ef!2m2!1d-77.1297847!2d38.8655441!3e2

But they are also talking about this part of DH: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/5922+10th+Rd+N,+Arlington,+VA+22205/Swanson+Middle+School,+Washington+Boulevard,+Arlington,+VA/@38.8810202,-77.1407406,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b45da4575bd7:0xa364e78683a08a48!2m2!1d-77.1404202!2d38.8782955!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b45b79e2271d:0xa2ae5eb016286aa1!2m2!1d-77.1395938!2d38.8825527!3e2

right- but that is the same planning unit. So one edge of the planning unit is .4 miles from Swanson. The other edge of the planning unit is .9 miles from both Swanson and Kenmore.

For the math impaired, this means that the entire PU is closer to Swanson than Kenmore and within one mile of Swanson.

+1 It's really that simple.

Yes the math really is that simple. We simply can’t have increased farms numbers at the South Arlington middle schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Why, if the SB is ok with a Rosslyn island at Williamsburg can't there be a Columbia pike island there, too?

Then WMS would become Spanish Immersion for 22207..and the SB wouldn't allow it.

But doesn't that seem perfect? Two immersion program, one for east Arlington and one for west (since the SB is moving away from n-s programs)?

I agree, they aren't being creative. They could also do a better job explaining the STEM program at Kenmore and target the ASFS crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:Why, if the SB is ok with a Rosslyn island at Williamsburg can't there be a Columbia pike island there, too?

Then WMS would become Spanish Immersion for 22207..and the SB wouldn't allow it.

But doesn't that seem perfect? Two immersion program, one for east Arlington and one for west (since the SB is moving away from n-s programs)?

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Anonymous wrote:Why, if the SB is ok with a Rosslyn island at Williamsburg can't there be a Columbia pike island there, too?

Then WMS would become Spanish Immersion for 22207..and the SB wouldn't allow it.

But doesn't that seem perfect? Two immersion program, one for east Arlington and one for west (since the SB is moving away from n-s programs)?

Anonymous wrote:Why, if the SB is ok with a Rosslyn island at Williamsburg can't there be a Columbia pike island there, too?

Then WMS would become Spanish Immersion for 22207..and the SB wouldn't allow it.

Why, if the SB is ok with a Rosslyn island at Williamsburg can't there be a Columbia pike island there, too?

Does APS/SB have a stated policy for maximizing Title I Funds? - is this prioritized above/below walkable, no islands...?

On the APS website I only see elementary schools "Abingdon, Barcroft, Barrett, Campbell, Carlin Springs, Drew, Hoffman-Boston, and Randolph operate Title I schoolwide programs" with over 40% FARMS. Does it even apply to middle schools?