Is APS really looking to close a N. Arlington elem school again?

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

+1 This is the second year in a row my kids' school has had the same broken playground equipment. It has never been fixed. Sometimes it has caution tape on it, sometimes it doesn't. There is one poor grassy patch that turns to dust a couple of months after school begins from over use. This happens every year. There is only enough space for one sport to happen at a time: soccer, or flag football, or baseball. There isn't enough space for more than one of those games at the same time. Each grade has a separate recess schedule, no overlap, because there is not enough outside space for more than one grade.

I've been to Discovery. They playground isn't especially large and I don't know if they can use the beautiful soccer fields next door, but oh my what a BEAUTIFUL building. I thought elementary schools like that only existed in movies (i.e. fantasy land). Nope, but you do have to pay to live in N. Arlington for that. How naive I was.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

Alice Fleet palace not enough for you?

I do love the internal waterfalls we regularly get!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

Alice Fleet palace not enough for you?

I do love the internal waterfalls we regularly get!

Dorothy Hamm has an actual decorative fountain in the auditorium lobby (where the stair to the mezzanine is). It’s been turned off at the moment, but it’s a nice touch. Nothing wrong with schools that have slides, fountains, stone facades, roof gardens, etc. APS schools have all of that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

Alice Fleet palace not enough for you?

I do love the internal waterfalls we regularly get!

Dorothy Hamm has an actual decorative fountain in the auditorium lobby (where the stair to the mezzanine is). It’s been turned off at the moment, but it’s a nice touch. Nothing wrong with schools that have slides, fountains, stone facades, roof gardens, etc. APS schools have all of that.

it was a joke. Fleet has had many internal leaks. I’ve worked in new and old APS schools and they all have had significant issues. New and beautiful is no guarantee of stability.

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

My school with a slide (technically in South Arlington) was built on a parking lot with a crappy playground, half of it was closed for a full semester last year. It’s not all roses being in a new building. Stuff still breaks constantly

which school in S Arlington has an indoor slide?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

My school with a slide (technically in South Arlington) was built on a parking lot with a crappy playground, half of it was closed for a full semester last year. It’s not all roses being in a new building. Stuff still breaks constantly

which school in S Arlington has an indoor slide?

I believe Fleet does. I thought Abingdon also has one.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

My school with a slide (technically in South Arlington) was built on a parking lot with a crappy playground, half of it was closed for a full semester last year. It’s not all roses being in a new building. Stuff still breaks constantly

which school in S Arlington has an indoor slide?

I believe Fleet does. I thought Abingdon also has one.

Fleet does, abingdon does not

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want to laugh out loud at the people with slides in their N. Arlington school who say it’s no big deal. You also probably think you deserve renovations already even though we haven’t got through fixing the S. Arlington schools that will never get a slide. You never get enough and you think you deserve it all.

My school with a slide (technically in South Arlington) was built on a parking lot with a crappy playground, half of it was closed for a full semester last year. It’s not all roses being in a new building. Stuff still breaks constantly

which school in S Arlington has an indoor slide?

I believe Fleet does. I thought Abingdon also has one.

Ok then can we stop with the false narrative that only option schools or N. Arlington schools get fancy perks in the buildings?

My kid has been in a very bad building in N Arl and it's hardly the only one