Who said there isn't a North-South divide?

[Anonymous]

Fair fax is so big that people may not obsess about it like people do in Arlington. With 24 high schools (I think) and myriad feeders, it would be hard. But there are definitely great, good and lesser schools in fairfax and the great schools (except TJ) tend to be the whiter, wealthier ones. And people buy in those districts just like they do in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fair fax is so big that people may not obsess about it like people do in Arlington. With 24 high schools (I think) and myriad feeders, it would be hard. But there are definitely great, good and lesser schools in fairfax and the great schools (except TJ) tend to be the whiter, wealthier ones. And people buy in those districts just like they do in Arlington.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

Change? More like about 100k in income a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Sure, let's just build affordable housing where it's most expensive, so we can have less of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

The school board can only do so much when the county board just doesn’t care about the repercussions of their policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Sure, let's just build affordable housing where it's most expensive, so we can have less of it.

It's not an abstract topic to me as a south Arlington homeowner with children, but it is an interesting issue in the abstract. For decades, cities built public and low income housing in only the poorest neighborhoods. It was a terrible idea. The Supreme Court said so 3 years ago and at some point, I imagine, Arlington will see a case pointing out that what they're doing is creating an immigrant ghetto in sw Arlington, with schools more segregated than in the 1980s.

At some point, quality matters more than quantity and the effort should be finding the political will and money to place affordable housing somewhere other than where there is a ton of it already and it's politically easy to do but has bad side effects. The problem is, politically, that 2/3rds of Arlington voters, including most of the AH do-gooders, all live in North Arlington where they bear none of those negative side effects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Sure, let's just build affordable housing where it's most expensive, so we can have less of it.

It's not an abstract topic to me as a south Arlington homeowner with children, but it is an interesting issue in the abstract. For decades, cities built public and low income housing in only the poorest neighborhoods. It was a terrible idea. The Supreme Court said so 3 years ago and at some point, I imagine, Arlington will see a case pointing out that what they're doing is creating an immigrant ghetto in sw Arlington, with schools more segregated than in the 1980s.

At some point, quality matters more than quantity and the effort should be finding the political will and money to place affordable housing somewhere other than where there is a ton of it already and it's politically easy to do but has bad side effects. The problem is, politically, that 2/3rds of Arlington voters, including most of the AH do-gooders, all live in North Arlington where they bear none of those negative side effects.

This! Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fair fax is so big that people may not obsess about it like people do in Arlington. With 24 high schools (I think) and myriad feeders, it would be hard. But there are definitely great, good and lesser schools in fairfax and the great schools (except TJ) tend to be the whiter, wealthier ones. And people buy in those districts just like they do in Arlington.

Whiter? I hate how Asians get left out of this conversation or people pretend they're "white" and not minorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Hey! They are also putting them by Buckingham and Rosslyn, that's north of 50, technically!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Sure, let's just build affordable housing where it's most expensive, so we can have less of it.

It's not an abstract topic to me as a south Arlington homeowner with children, but it is an interesting issue in the abstract. For decades, cities built public and low income housing in only the poorest neighborhoods. It was a terrible idea. The Supreme Court said so 3 years ago and at some point, I imagine, Arlington will see a case pointing out that what they're doing is creating an immigrant ghetto in sw Arlington, with schools more segregated than in the 1980s.

At some point, quality matters more than quantity and the effort should be finding the political will and money to place affordable housing somewhere other than where there is a ton of it already and it's politically easy to do but has bad side effects. The problem is, politically, that 2/3rds of Arlington voters, including most of the AH do-gooders, all live in North Arlington where they bear none of those negative side effects.

I don't think you should be burdened by any affordable housing. I think the service industries in Arlington should pay a wage that allows their employees to live here. AH is just a subsidy for those businesses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Or maybe we stop building AH entirely until our school capacity has caught up to the current population. When we have an excess of seats, that's the time to look at increasing residential development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Or maybe we stop building AH entirely until our school capacity has caught up to the current population. When we have an excess of seats, that's the time to look at increasing residential development.

We have excess seats...they are called trailers and schools being over capacity like Swanson. Stop the fake news. Just look at the facilities report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list. Not a one in south Arlington. Yep, all schools are equally good.

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening.

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.

Sure, let's just build affordable housing where it's most expensive, so we can have less of it.

It's not an abstract topic to me as a south Arlington homeowner with children, but it is an interesting issue in the abstract. For decades, cities built public and low income housing in only the poorest neighborhoods. It was a terrible idea. The Supreme Court said so 3 years ago and at some point, I imagine, Arlington will see a case pointing out that what they're doing is creating an immigrant ghetto in sw Arlington, with schools more segregated than in the 1980s.

At some point, quality matters more than quantity and the effort should be finding the political will and money to place affordable housing somewhere other than where there is a ton of it already and it's politically easy to do but has bad side effects. The problem is, politically, that 2/3rds of Arlington voters, including most of the AH do-gooders, all live in North Arlington where they bear none of those negative side effects.

I don't think you should be burdened by any affordable housing. I think the service industries in Arlington should pay a wage that allows their employees to live here. AH is just a subsidy for those businesses.

This is going to be unpopular, but we live in the smallest geographic county in the United States. Further, we have invested heavily in public transit and there is plenty of high density housing adjacent to Arlington. There is no justifiable need for us to suppress our tax base by subsidizing affordable housing.

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of people in Arl. are tired of the constant push for more AH without regard to the overcrowding the whole county is feeling. I don't know that we ever will get a candidate to openly come out against the non-stop AH push and their hefty backers.