Question about re zoning elementary schools in S. Arlington

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Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

Don't blame you. This is the Alexandria-zation of South Arlington. Property values are becoming unmoored from school quality (real or perceived) here. I've seen a good half dozen houses in Douglas Park go for over 800k this year. Those families aren't sending their kids to Randolph. This is a not surprising outcome, because the CB policies are designed to benefit the 1% and the destitute. In between? Sorry. Make other arrangements.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

Don't blame you. This is the Alexandria-zation of South Arlington. Property values are becoming unmoored from school quality (real or perceived) here. I've seen a good half dozen houses in Douglas Park go for over 800k this year. Those families aren't sending their kids to Randolph. This is a not surprising outcome, because the CB policies are designed to benefit the 1% and the destitute. In between? Sorry. Make other arrangements.

How do the CB policies help the 1%?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

Don't blame you. This is the Alexandria-zation of South Arlington. Property values are becoming unmoored from school quality (real or perceived) here. I've seen a good half dozen houses in Douglas Park go for over 800k this year. Those families aren't sending their kids to Randolph. This is a not surprising outcome, because the CB policies are designed to benefit the 1% and the destitute. In between? Sorry. Make other arrangements.

How do the CB policies help the 1%?

The polices don’t effect them. That’s enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

Don't blame you. This is the Alexandria-zation of South Arlington. Property values are becoming unmoored from school quality (real or perceived) here. I've seen a good half dozen houses in Douglas Park go for over 800k this year. Those families aren't sending their kids to Randolph. This is a not surprising outcome, because the CB policies are designed to benefit the 1% and the destitute. In between? Sorry. Make other arrangements.

It's a contagion! Don't let it be. Arlington County controls that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

Don't blame you. This is the Alexandria-zation of South Arlington. Property values are becoming unmoored from school quality (real or perceived) here. I've seen a good half dozen houses in Douglas Park go for over 800k this year. Those families aren't sending their kids to Randolph. This is a not surprising outcome, because the CB policies are designed to benefit the 1% and the destitute. In between? Sorry. Make other arrangements.

How do the CB policies help the 1%?

I guess we'll just have to see how much of our money the County Board offered Amazon. Can't wait for Amazon and affordable housing to eat up the entire county budget. I'm not forgetting the pool, don't worry. It's probably part of the "package" offered to Amazon and that's why trying to ditch it earlier this year was a nonstarter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

Don't blame you. This is the Alexandria-zation of South Arlington. Property values are becoming unmoored from school quality (real or perceived) here. I've seen a good half dozen houses in Douglas Park go for over 800k this year. Those families aren't sending their kids to Randolph. This is a not surprising outcome, because the CB policies are designed to benefit the 1% and the destitute. In between? Sorry. Make other arrangements.

How do the CB policies help the 1%?

I guess we'll just have to see how much of our money the County Board offered Amazon. Can't wait for Amazon and affordable housing to eat up the entire county budget. I'm not forgetting the pool, don't worry. It's probably part of the "package" offered to Amazon and that's why trying to ditch it earlier this year was a nonstarter.

Yeah - maybe they offered naming rights with Fisette: Amazon-Fisette Aquatic Complex

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it when people talk about living in north Arlington for Many years...
Yes. You’ve enjoyed that fruits of enteral racism, red lining, and suppression for many years.
I know you pine for the good old days.

It really is sad isn't it? Someone in SA suggests that a school that is no more than 40 percent poor might not be such a bad idea - for anyone, especially poor kids --and gets attacked by some pearl clutching 1 percenter who cries "social engineering". As if social engineering that you describe isnt what got us where we are today. The anger and the fear, the entitlement. That's what the common good is up against.

So run for SB on that platform or StFU.

Someone did and they couldn’t make it past the democratic caucus.

The Arlington county Dem establishment is a big part of the problem. Major groupthink on affordable housing and big showy projects. There’s an appetite for some independent candidates that aren’t Audrey Clement, John vihstadt showed that.

So basically nobody really cares how high the F&RL and ELL populations are at your school.

Yep. Just that they don't increase at any north arlington schools.
ACDC really needs to at least step out of the SB races.

What might change things is older people dying, and or moving away. Most people who paid a premium to live anywhere in Arlington don’t agree with the current agenda. Even younger homeowners in North Arlington.
We are still talking another 2 decades.
My kid will have graduated from an elite private school by then. I don’t have time to waste on south arl APS. I’m glad the ELL and farm’s kids are getting what they need. My kid isn’t served by that. Other arrangements have been made.

Don't blame you. This is the Alexandria-zation of South Arlington. Property values are becoming unmoored from school quality (real or perceived) here. I've seen a good half dozen houses in Douglas Park go for over 800k this year. Those families aren't sending their kids to Randolph. This is a not surprising outcome, because the CB policies are designed to benefit the 1% and the destitute. In between? Sorry. Make other arrangements.

How do the CB policies help the 1%?

The polices don’t effect them. That’s enough.

And by protecting their property values, maintaining their neighborhood "character" and "feel," keeping it all nice and pretty, and discouraging/preventing any more poor people send their kids to school with their kids/grandkids. By keeping industrial in the south, affordable housing concentrated to the max in the south, not investing equally in development in the south (metro/Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, etc.)

[Anonymous]

I can never tell if these posts are trolls or not.
If you think the rb corridor has any special treatment by Aps you are horribly wrong. They are the ones being sent on extremely long bus routes to diversify schools in the north. All the schools on the east side of the county are option schools. Do you think that was done to benefit the kids in those neighborhoods? No, it was so kids in the nw would have brand new schools. Look at ats. The kids at ballston get bussed passed three schools to go to Ashlawn.
Look at the Williamsburg bubble. It took a lot of pressure by civic associations there for Aps to even consider getting rid of it.
Don’t even get me started on the asfs mess. How an administrator can say that immigrants are causing the school to lose accreditation and still have a job is beyond me. The message is clear though. Unless you are rich and look like what they think an ideal kid looks like, you are not welcome. Plain and simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can never tell if these posts are trolls or not.
If you think the rb corridor has any special treatment by Aps you are horribly wrong. They are the ones being sent on extremely long bus routes to diversify schools in the north. All the schools on the east side of the county are option schools. Do you think that was done to benefit the kids in those neighborhoods? No, it was so kids in the nw would have brand new schools. Look at ats. The kids at ballston get bussed passed three schools to go to Ashlawn.
Look at the Williamsburg bubble. It took a lot of pressure by civic associations there for Aps to even consider getting rid of it.
Don’t even get me started on the asfs mess. How an administrator can say that immigrants are causing the school to lose accreditation and still have a job is beyond me. The message is clear though. Unless you are rich and look like what they think an ideal kid looks like, you are not welcome. Plain and simple.

I don't think the post was talking about APS - rather the County's financial investment in development along the R-B corridor and protectionism from development farther north. As compared to the commitment to preserve all the affordable housing and replace any lost affordable housing in the County in the Pike corridor, and lack of financial investment in economic development in the south.

But I don't follow your comment that all the schools in the east are choice. There's Key at the elementary level; HB at the middle/high. There may not be enough elementary schools in the east; but how is that "all" option schools?

[Anonymous]

Oh jeez. Don’t engage the dumbasses from the asfs thread. Next thing we’ll be hearing about terrorism in their pta meetings, and hostile take overs by Cherrydale parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can never tell if these posts are trolls or not.
If you think the rb corridor has any special treatment by Aps you are horribly wrong. They are the ones being sent on extremely long bus routes to diversify schools in the north. All the schools on the east side of the county are option schools. Do you think that was done to benefit the kids in those neighborhoods? No, it was so kids in the nw would have brand new schools. Look at ats. The kids at ballston get bussed passed three schools to go to Ashlawn.
Look at the Williamsburg bubble. It took a lot of pressure by civic associations there for Aps to even consider getting rid of it.
Don’t even get me started on the asfs mess. How an administrator can say that immigrants are causing the school to lose accreditation and still have a job is beyond me. The message is clear though. Unless you are rich and look like what they think an ideal kid looks like, you are not welcome. Plain and simple.

I don't think the post was talking about APS - rather the County's financial investment in development along the R-B corridor and protectionism from development farther north. As compared to the commitment to preserve all the affordable housing and replace any lost affordable housing in the County in the Pike corridor, and lack of financial investment in economic development in the south.

But I don't follow your comment that all the schools in the east are choice. There's Key at the elementary level; HB at the middle/high. There may not be enough elementary schools in the east; but how is that "all" option schools?

If you draw a two mile radius around Rosslyn, the only two schools are key and the Wilson site. The closest schools if you go beyond 2 miles are asfs and long branch, both of which cannot hold the 2000+ kids that live from the river to Washington lee. There is no plan to address this. The plan is to instead draw very long boundaries that pull kids to far away schools that are 3+ miles away.
Just look at the map.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can never tell if these posts are trolls or not.
If you think the rb corridor has any special treatment by Aps you are horribly wrong. They are the ones being sent on extremely long bus routes to diversify schools in the north. All the schools on the east side of the county are option schools. Do you think that was done to benefit the kids in those neighborhoods? No, it was so kids in the nw would have brand new schools. Look at ats. The kids at ballston get bussed passed three schools to go to Ashlawn.
Look at the Williamsburg bubble. It took a lot of pressure by civic associations there for Aps to even consider getting rid of it.
Don’t even get me started on the asfs mess. How an administrator can say that immigrants are causing the school to lose accreditation and still have a job is beyond me. The message is clear though. Unless you are rich and look like what they think an ideal kid looks like, you are not welcome. Plain and simple.

I don't think the post was talking about APS - rather the County's financial investment in development along the R-B corridor and protectionism from development farther north. As compared to the commitment to preserve all the affordable housing and replace any lost affordable housing in the County in the Pike corridor, and lack of financial investment in economic development in the south.

But I don't follow your comment that all the schools in the east are choice. There's Key at the elementary level; HB at the middle/high. There may not be enough elementary schools in the east; but how is that "all" option schools?

If you draw a two mile radius around Rosslyn, the only two schools are key and the Wilson site. The closest schools if you go beyond 2 miles are asfs and long branch, both of which cannot hold the 2000+ kids that live from the river to Washington lee. There is no plan to address this. The plan is to instead draw very long boundaries that pull kids to far away schools that are 3+ miles away.
Just look at the map.

Maybe you should have looked at a map before you bought your house.

[Anonymous]

PRESENTATION IS UP_
https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/B43U7E7AA889/$file/D-1%20Elementary%20Boundaries%20Process%20presentation.pdf