Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 22:11     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:Wow. No kids in elementary and not near Westover. But what did the McK school community do to the SB to deserve this? They can’t catch a break. First they get absurdly and unjustifiably overcrowded by a bogus boundary change. Then they live through endless construction and end up with trailers anyway. Then they lose said school. Now they get scattered to 4 different elementaries. Why? So 40 kids or so don’t have to take a bus to Tuckahoe? For real?! I wish the two outgoing Board members and just one more would have the guts to stand up to the HP-OK crowd. Maybe Reid? Won’t be O Grady. She’s got buddies on that CA. Maybe Kanninen? McK seriously can’t catch a break. Do they have a giant target on that school??


Hahahahahaha

Good one.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 22:09     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wow. No kids in elementary and not near Westover. But what did the McK school community do to the SB to deserve this? They can’t catch a break. First they get absurdly and unjustifiably overcrowded by a bogus boundary change. Then they live through endless construction and end up with trailers anyway. Then they lose said school. Now they get scattered to 4 different elementaries. Why? So 40 kids or so don’t have to take a bus to Tuckahoe? For real?! I wish the two outgoing Board members and just one more would have the guts to stand up to the HP-OK crowd. Maybe Reid? Won’t be O Grady. She’s got buddies on that CA. Maybe Kanninen? McK seriously can’t catch a break. Do they have a giant target on that school??


McK didn’t want to be split up. They wanted all the planning units at Reed. They’re getting what they wanted.


At the expense of 1 Tuckahoe and 1 Glebe planning unit that are very, very close to the school. I wonder if Dominion Hills feels good about that.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 22:05     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:Wow. No kids in elementary and not near Westover. But what did the McK school community do to the SB to deserve this? They can’t catch a break. First they get absurdly and unjustifiably overcrowded by a bogus boundary change. Then they live through endless construction and end up with trailers anyway. Then they lose said school. Now they get scattered to 4 different elementaries. Why? So 40 kids or so don’t have to take a bus to Tuckahoe? For real?! I wish the two outgoing Board members and just one more would have the guts to stand up to the HP-OK crowd. Maybe Reid? Won’t be O Grady. She’s got buddies on that CA. Maybe Kanninen? McK seriously can’t catch a break. Do they have a giant target on that school??


McK didn’t want to be split up. They wanted all the planning units at Reed. They’re getting what they wanted.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 22:03     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
*yawn* 21:57 Nice try McK-troll.

HPOK didn't do anything to McKinley. McK doesn't want the kids who have Reed in their backyard to go to that school b/c they think they are owed something.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:57     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Wow. No kids in elementary and not near Westover. But what did the McK school community do to the SB to deserve this? They can’t catch a break. First they get absurdly and unjustifiably overcrowded by a bogus boundary change. Then they live through endless construction and end up with trailers anyway. Then they lose said school. Now they get scattered to 4 different elementaries. Why? So 40 kids or so don’t have to take a bus to Tuckahoe? For real?! I wish the two outgoing Board members and just one more would have the guts to stand up to the HP-OK crowd. Maybe Reid? Won’t be O Grady. She’s got buddies on that CA. Maybe Kanninen? McK seriously can’t catch a break. Do they have a giant target on that school??
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:50     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What is the purpose of the Taylor island?

There is no taylor island. They are keeping kids at taylor still at taylor.

Eastern Lyon village didn’t want to go to key unless all of Lyon village went to key (or at least all of the parts of Lyon village that are currently at asfs). So they moved 24130 back to asfs, and similarly they moved the two units north of lee highway that got moved to taylor In the original proposal back to asfs.
Since they were told to better balance enrollment and they could not come up with another way of filling taylor (It was at 80% in the original proposal), they left most of the kids that would have gotten moved out of taylor at taylor.

Asfs has an island in option b, but who cares. It’s only an island because of an unpopulated block (the one with giant) is attached to a Virginia square planning unit instead of 24110. Move the block (which is giant— no kids on that block) to its own planning unit and zone it to asfs. Presto. No island.


Wait, how can the Lyon Village families have such strong say into where they end up when it makes the boundaries so complicated and disjointed?
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:48     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:What is the purpose of the Taylor island?


Do you mean the Taylor peninsula into Lyon Village?

I'm guessing the final demographics for ASFS were insane, and they needed to mix in some diversity some of the high density housing feeding into Key and Taylor. Looks ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:45     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:What is the purpose of the Taylor island?

There is no taylor island. They are keeping kids at taylor still at taylor.

Eastern Lyon village didn’t want to go to key unless all of Lyon village went to key (or at least all of the parts of Lyon village that are currently at asfs). So they moved 24130 back to asfs, and similarly they moved the two units north of lee highway that got moved to taylor In the original proposal back to asfs.
Since they were told to better balance enrollment and they could not come up with another way of filling taylor (It was at 80% in the original proposal), they left most of the kids that would have gotten moved out of taylor at taylor.

Asfs has an island in option b, but who cares. It’s only an island because of an unpopulated block (the one with giant) is attached to a Virginia square planning unit instead of 24110. Move the block (which is giant— no kids on that block) to its own planning unit and zone it to asfs. Presto. No island.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:32     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
What is the purpose of the Taylor island?
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:14     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:Two schools in Option B sit outside their attendance zone...brilliant


That’s McK genius parents for you.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:09     Subject: Re:APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:And the fact that we have to just do this again in 2 years...so exhausting.

It will never be easy. Never ever. Some group of kids will always be older and have a tough transition. No matter what and no matter when.

I’m sure the staff want to cry. All the drama last year and then this. What was the point.


Reid was a serious d!ck to LS.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:08     Subject: Re:APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
And the fact that we have to just do this again in 2 years...so exhausting.

It will never be easy. Never ever. Some group of kids will always be older and have a tough transition. No matter what and no matter when.

I’m sure the staff want to cry. All the drama last year and then this. What was the point.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:04     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
So we had significant boundary changes planned to alleviate crowding and various other problems all over the county, that was scaled back because pandemic, and now is being scaled back even further...so that we reserve the ability to do significant boundary changes that are desperately needed all over the county.

Sounds very APS school board. Especially when you add nonsequitors about rent relief and wondering why stupid decisions were made about boundaries years ago, while at the same time considering islands and schools outside their attendance zones.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:01     Subject: Re:APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This makes all the heartache of last year pointless.

If this is what they were going to do Reed should have just been option. Saved us all this BS.

What a load of crap.



Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner. You hit it on the head


FYI Reid Goldstein argued that Reed should be an option school years ago and the neighborhood up there wouldn’t have it.


So what’s changed? With the amount of busing in this proposal it might as well be an option school. The neighborhood is going to go for it now?
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2020 21:00     Subject: APS Boundaries Work Session Watch Thread
Anonymous wrote:It will be easier then because we won’t be in a pandemic.
Waiting two years helps figure out the degree to which the move to private covid precipitated is permanent.


Yes after the pandemic all these Dominion Hills and Madison Manor McKinley families will easily accept APS data and being moved to other schools besides Reed. Of course, no problem APS! Happy to move!