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Anonymous wrote:If Mckinley families who want to fight this want any chance of winning, they need to either focus their efforts on moving the option school to Tuckahoe or eliminating an option school altogether. It is idiotic for them to potentially go after Reed because they will be cannibalizing their own supporters. The school is very clearly split and they desperately need neighborhood seats in that area anyway.

Wow. Charming. Way to take the high road, McKinley. "Let's all get behind screwing someone else."

Anonymous wrote:If Mckinley families who want to fight this want any chance of winning, they need to either focus their efforts on moving the option school to Tuckahoe or eliminating an option school altogether. It is idiotic for them to potentially go after Reed because they will be cannibalizing their own supporters. The school is very clearly split and they desperately need neighborhood seats in that area anyway.

Anonymous wrote:People in favor of the plan to move ATS to McKinley should be sure to speak out. The Board will only hear complaints. They need to hear from people who are ready to make this happen with minimal impact across the county. On the whole this is a good plan. Make sure the APS and SB hear that. Otherwise, they will cave to Key and McKinley--as they always do,

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Anonymous wrote:OP, did you advocate for the Henry community last year during the South Arlington boundary redrawing? Did you advocate for Nottingham two years ago when the staff tried to do the same thing to that school that they’re now proposing for McKinley? If not, why should anyone else care what happens to McKinley when you didn’t care what happened to them?

Yes.

We don't believe you.

I was trying to think of a way to explain the things I did without outing myself but couldn't figure it out so just said yes. I k now, not helpful..

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 School Buildings With Fewest Walkers:
ATS- 43
Carlin Springs- 67
Jamestown- 95
ASFS- 118
Tuckahoe- 135

McKinley still has 243 walkers, even with all the kids going to Reed. This decision isn't being made based on walkability.

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Anonymous wrote:I think those making a loud stink for Mckinley to stay sound tone deaf. Do they not see that many other schools will have children shifted? Why do they think that their situation is the most important? They are coming across as very entitled. They get a brand new building and the kids that move are moving to other excellent schools. I don’t think they see that they will have very little support from the broader Arlington community and are unlikely to have any sympathy from SB. They would be better off pitting their energies elsewhere.

Hey, they’re just following the path laid down by other APS school communities that didn’t want to be moved. Sometimes it worked.

All of them are intolerable, but this isn’t exactly new behavior.

Exactly. You don't even have to go back further than April 2018 in the case of the NW schools: https://www.arlnow.com/2018/04/24/parents-push-back-on-proposed-attendance-changes-at-nottingham-elementary-school/

It is a hot potato among the NW schools who gets ATS. And there are arguments pro and con for almost every building. Maybe they should just put all the schools in a hat and randomly pick one.

Or put it in the place with least # of walkers.

Top 5 School Buildings With Fewest Walkers:
ATS- 43
Carlin Springs- 67
Jamestown- 95
ASFS- 118
Tuckahoe- 135

McKinley still has 243 walkers, even with all the kids going to Reed. This decision isn't being made based on walkability.

LOL. That's ATS's current location. Very few walkers.

OK - so that's a great place for an option school. Done.

Where is the next best location? What has the 2nd fewest walkers?

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Anonymous wrote:I think some Mckinley families fear being sent to Ashlawn and then Kenmore (if rezoned) as those schools are more diverse and have more poverty. They might not call it this but I think that’s part of it.

I don't think it's that at all, as the county has said it won't move kids twice. I think it's about being sent from a school where they can walk to a school where they can't. And that's a valid concern.

They've said they won't move a kid twice per level--so they won't move them twice in elementary, for example. But they've never said they won't move a kid twice across all levels. You can get moved in elementary, then again in middle, and a third time in high school, and you still wouldn't have been moved "twice" as they see it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think those making a loud stink for Mckinley to stay sound tone deaf. Do they not see that many other schools will have children shifted? Why do they think that their situation is the most important? They are coming across as very entitled. They get a brand new building and the kids that move are moving to other excellent schools. I don’t think they see that they will have very little support from the broader Arlington community and are unlikely to have any sympathy from SB. They would be better off pitting their energies elsewhere.

Hey, they’re just following the path laid down by other APS school communities that didn’t want to be moved. Sometimes it worked.

All of them are intolerable, but this isn’t exactly new behavior.

Exactly. You don't even have to go back further than April 2018 in the case of the NW schools: https://www.arlnow.com/2018/04/24/parents-push-back-on-proposed-attendance-changes-at-nottingham-elementary-school/

It is a hot potato among the NW schools who gets ATS. And there are arguments pro and con for almost every building. Maybe they should just put all the schools in a hat and randomly pick one.

Or put it in the place with least # of walkers.

LOL. That's ATS's current location. Very few walkers.

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Anonymous wrote:I think some Mckinley families fear being sent to Ashlawn and then Kenmore (if rezoned) as those schools are more diverse and have more poverty. They might not call it this but I think that’s part of it.

I don't think it's that at all, as the county has said it won't move kids twice. I think it's about being sent from a school where they can walk to a school where they can't. And that's a valid concern.