APS School Bd Mtg

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget? I want to run. Enough of this crap. I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.

You'll get my vote! Let the seniors have just as many trailers as the students do. If nothing else, spread the pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget? I want to run. Enough of this crap. I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.

APS doesn't own the community centers, the County does. There's a hugely vocal contingent, mostly of baby boomers who fight to keep the community centers. Many used to be schools but APS turned them over to the County 20+yrs ago when the school population had bottomed out in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget? I want to run. Enough of this crap. I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.

APS doesn't own the community centers, the County does. There's a hugely vocal contingent, mostly of baby boomers who fight to keep the community centers. Many used to be schools but APS turned them over to the County 20+yrs ago when the school population had bottomed out in the 90s.

Then I just need to figure out what decision-making body in Arlington, VA has control over those community centers' land. I will run for that. My platform will be about working hand in hand with the school board to liquidate the community centers and turn them into useable schools again. I'm doing it. I'll bet with some digging I can figure this one out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget? I want to run. Enough of this crap. I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.

APS doesn't own the community centers, the County does. There's a hugely vocal contingent, mostly of baby boomers who fight to keep the community centers. Many used to be schools but APS turned them over to the County 20+yrs ago when the school population had bottomed out in the 90s.

Boomers make up 8% of population. Why are they running the show!
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget? I want to run. Enough of this crap. I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.

APS doesn't own the community centers, the County does. There's a hugely vocal contingent, mostly of baby boomers who fight to keep the community centers. Many used to be schools but APS turned them over to the County 20+yrs ago when the school population had bottomed out in the 90s.

Boomers make up 8% of population. Why are they running the show!
https://arlingtonva.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2016/04/2016ProfilePagesFINAL.pdf

Because they vote and show up en masse to every meeting/caucus/hearing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boomers make up 8% of population. Why are they running the show!
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Because they show up and make their voices heard. They vote, they go to community meetings and hearings. All the things that Millenials don't do. Civic activism and involvement matters, I see it in my Arlington civic association, I see it at the county level, and we see it in the national level election results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Arlington with small kids. What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend.

But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget? I want to run. Enough of this crap. I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.

APS doesn't own the community centers, the County does. There's a hugely vocal contingent, mostly of baby boomers who fight to keep the community centers. Many used to be schools but APS turned them over to the County 20+yrs ago when the school population had bottomed out in the 90s.

Then I just need to figure out what decision-making body in Arlington, VA has control over those community centers' land. I will run for that. My platform will be about working hand in hand with the school board to liquidate the community centers and turn them into useable schools again. I'm doing it. I'll bet with some digging I can figure this one out.

County board

[Anonymous]

Or maybe acdc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or maybe acdc

I was wondering about this group--what is their makeup? What is their position on schools? Do we need to start lobbying them? I know nothing about them except they were handing out Gutschall flyers at the caucus which irritated me.

[Anonymous]

PP here. I've figured it out. Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee and/or the County Board. I'm doing this.

I'm pretty sure that MONA could turn out a bigger contingent of voters as compared to those Boomers -- we just have to give them something to vote for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. I've figured it out. Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee and/or the County Board. I'm doing this.

I'm pretty sure that MONA could turn out a bigger contingent of voters as compared to those Boomers -- we just have to give them something to vote for.

MONA's non political and won't let you post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. I've figured it out. Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee and/or the County Board. I'm doing this.

I'm pretty sure that MONA could turn out a bigger contingent of voters as compared to those Boomers -- we just have to give them something to vote for.

MONA forbids political posts. You can't advocate for positions there, but you can advertise events, such as a meet-and-greet with a candidate. I remember seeing one of those events posted for Monique, and she went on to win the SB dem caucus, so...

[Anonymous]

Well do the Boomers have a secret facebook group they all frequent for their voting positions? I will create one like that, except for actual families with kids who care about the quality of public schools. I'll come back here and tell you about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. I've figured it out. Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee and/or the County Board. I'm doing this.

I'm pretty sure that MONA could turn out a bigger contingent of voters as compared to those Boomers -- we just have to give them something to vote for.

MONA forbids political posts. You can't advocate for positions there, but you can advertise events, such as a meet-and-greet with a candidate. I remember seeing one of those events posted for Monique, and she went on to win the SB dem caucus, so...

Can the discussion about the overcrowding and planned night school and mega school be posted? And a recommendation to look at candidate platforms and remember to vote? No explicit endorsements but bring the horse to water

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well do the Boomers have a secret facebook group they all frequent for their voting positions? I will create one like that, except for actual families with kids who care about the quality of public schools. I'll come back here and tell you about it.

What boomers have is endless time because of retirement and huge wealth from real estate appreciationbb hard to beat that so we need to be savvy