South Arlington and North Arlington Schools

[Anonymous]

Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new school in south arlingtton will only add about 260 new seats. All it is - new school for the wealthiest part of south arlington (excluding crystal city of course). Yes, 50 million dollars for 262 new seats. Money well, spent?

How on earth is it only 262 seats!!! Are we sure of that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.

It's called a small apartment. You can tell me to stfu, but it's exactly what we did on a modest budget. I'm a parent with kids in aps, two of them, in fact. We made huge housing compromises. I know exactly what I'm talking about. You may not consider that a reasonable compromise or option and that's your choice. Not sure why the older generation would hate me for doing that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new school in south arlingtton will only add about 260 new seats. All it is - new school for the wealthiest part of south arlington (excluding crystal city of course). Yes, 50 million dollars for 262 new seats. Money well, spent?

How on earth is it only 262 seats!!! Are we sure of that?

That's what, 10-15 classes? 2 per grade? That doesn't sound right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.

It's called a small apartment. You can tell me to stfu, but it's exactly what we did on a modest budget. I'm a parent with kids in aps, two of them, in fact. We made huge housing compromises. I know exactly what I'm talking about. You may not consider that a reasonable compromise or option and that's your choice. Not sure why the older generation would hate me for doing that.

Everyone else hates you because you're a sanctimonious ass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new school in south arlingtton will only add about 260 new seats. All it is - new school for the wealthiest part of south arlington (excluding crystal city of course). Yes, 50 million dollars for 262 new seats. Money well, spent?

How on earth is it only 262 seats!!! Are we sure of that?

No, that's not true. It will have 725 seats. The previous poster is alluding to the notion that a large part of these seats will be filled by current Henry students - but the Montessori program would move and have a capacity of around 470 in its own building, centrally located, and about 400 seats or more would then open up at Drew - Drew will be having a brand new composition. So the total new seats are 725, just not all at the same location.

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Anonymous wrote:Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.

It's called a small apartment. You can tell me to stfu, but it's exactly what we did on a modest budget. I'm a parent with kids in aps, two of them, in fact. We made huge housing compromises. I know exactly what I'm talking about. You may not consider that a reasonable compromise or option and that's your choice. Not sure why the older generation would hate me for doing that.

Everyone else hates you because you're a sanctimonious ass.

Speak for yourself. PP is totally right that you can make sacrifices on living space to get a better school. Why so much hate for her because she did -- is she wrecking your story that it's not possible?

[Anonymous]

It's ironic that people are arguing over these schools: yes, North Arlington scores better than South, but there are plenty of places in Virginia that are much worse. All these NoVA school debates forget that our "failing" schools are better than some of the best ones elsewhere...

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Anonymous wrote:Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.

It's called a small apartment. You can tell me to stfu, but it's exactly what we did on a modest budget. I'm a parent with kids in aps, two of them, in fact. We made huge housing compromises. I know exactly what I'm talking about. You may not consider that a reasonable compromise or option and that's your choice. Not sure why the older generation would hate me for doing that.

Everyone else hates you because you're a sanctimonious ass.

Speak for yourself. PP is totally right that you can make sacrifices on living space to get a better school. Why so much hate for her because she did -- is she wrecking your story that it's not possible?

Because people have made sacrifices to live even in south Arlington. It's shockingly out of touch and entitled to not realize that. That includes all of the single parents, and hard working immigrants that are desperately trying to make a better life for their kids. I'm sure there is a very small percentage of people living south of 50 , around the pike, that opted for new construction and square footage. it's likely smaller than the people you see on these threads gloating over "'buying into"' science focus and now discovery.
Parents make the best choice they can wih the resources they've got. This thread has basically turned into a forum about APS and CB policy. The county as a whole has taken a bit of a laissez faire approach to planning in regards to affordable housing, density, and schools. It's a good thing that there are more well educated, middle class voices rising up from other parts of the county. It's necessary to point out disparities in allotted resources - from all sides. Certainly when you concentrate poverty and English language learners, you are creating an even more expensive school to educate. These decisions ( or lack there of) effect us all.
It's wonderful that pp had the means to live in north Arlington. It's terribly out of touch to assume with just a bit of adjustment everyone else could do the same. It's astounding to hear a north Arlington apt referred to as a sacrifice. I would have loved to afford that. We rented an apt in south arl...
Imagining you made a superior real estate decision doesn't add to this conversation. It's a distraction. There is a forum for that. Please take those remarks there.

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Anonymous wrote:Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.

It's called a small apartment. You can tell me to stfu, but it's exactly what we did on a modest budget. I'm a parent with kids in aps, two of them, in fact. We made huge housing compromises. I know exactly what I'm talking about. You may not consider that a reasonable compromise or option and that's your choice. Not sure why the older generation would hate me for doing that.

Everyone else hates you because you're a sanctimonious ass.

Speak for yourself. PP is totally right that you can make sacrifices on living space to get a better school. Why so much hate for her because she did -- is she wrecking your story that it's not possible?

+1 NP and completely agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:are you PPs kidding me? when you have schools in the south failing to get accredited with kids lagging even further behind in achievements, the boards were focusing all their resources (and their measly brain power) on finding more seats for more kids...

first world problem at its best.

Every school in Arlington is fully accredited this year - north and south.

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Anonymous wrote:are you PPs kidding me? when you have schools in the south failing to get accredited with kids lagging even further behind in achievements, the boards were focusing all their resources (and their measly brain power) on finding more seats for more kids...

first world problem at its best.

Every school in Arlington is fully accredited this year - north and south.

I thought it was only Kenmore that had an issue. As a previous poster noted - we have almost no actual failure. People are taking issue with planning/ lack thereof.

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Anonymous wrote:Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.

It's called a small apartment. You can tell me to stfu, but it's exactly what we did on a modest budget. I'm a parent with kids in aps, two of them, in fact. We made huge housing compromises. I know exactly what I'm talking about. You may not consider that a reasonable compromise or option and that's your choice. Not sure why the older generation would hate me for doing that.

Everyone else hates you because you're a sanctimonious ass.

Speak for yourself. PP is totally right that you can make sacrifices on living space to get a better school. Why so much hate for her because she did -- is she wrecking your story that it's not possible?

Because people have made sacrifices to live even in south Arlington. It's shockingly out of touch and entitled to not realize that. That includes all of the single parents, and hard working immigrants that are desperately trying to make a better life for their kids. I'm sure there is a very small percentage of people living south of 50 , around the pike, that opted for new construction and square footage. it's likely smaller than the people you see on these threads gloating over "'buying into"' science focus and now discovery.
Parents make the best choice they can wih the resources they've got. This thread has basically turned into a forum about APS and CB policy. The county as a whole has taken a bit of a laissez faire approach to planning in regards to affordable housing, density, and schools. It's a good thing that there are more well educated, middle class voices rising up from other parts of the county. It's necessary to point out disparities in allotted resources - from all sides. Certainly when you concentrate poverty and English language learners, you are creating an even more expensive school to educate. These decisions ( or lack there of) effect us all.
It's wonderful that pp had the means to live in north Arlington. It's terribly out of touch to assume with just a bit of adjustment everyone else could do the same. It's astounding to hear a north Arlington apt referred to as a sacrifice. I would have loved to afford that. We rented an apt in south arl...
Imagining you made a superior real estate decision doesn't add to this conversation. It's a distraction. There is a forum for that. Please take those remarks there.

Wow. It looks like someone struck a nerve. I think the post about making compromises assumed the ability to own a home in the $500k range. I don't think that poster suggested that someone without some means could do it, or was so "out of touch" to think that everyone can just move to N. Arlington. She's probably assuming that someone who has the time and inclination to have this fight on DCUM probably falls into the category of someone with at least some resources. And if she's wrong then it's just another person wrong on the internet. And that's ok. There are a lot of posters who complain that they bought a nice house in a nice neighborhood in S. Arlington, only to be surprised that the schools don't measure up to their N. Arlington counterparts. Presumably that was her audience.

[Anonymous]

^^^ follow the thread. People bought in nice south Arlington neighborhoods, with nice schools, that are now no longer nice. That isn't the same as not doing due diligence, and kinda gross to be a little pleased about it, as it appears in some of the above posts.