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Subject: APS: Think the "no move" campaign is going to work?

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Anonymous wrote:The county should reclaim community centers. Better to have smaller, well-distributed elementary schools than places for seniors to do yoga.

Build them a fancy community center at Quincy and take back the community centers.

Let us know how you feel about that 20 or 30 years from now.

+1. The answer can't be "screw everyone but parents of school-age kids," because the county simply won't go along with that and it undermines the credibility of school advocates.

When I've taken a class at the community center I often have to drive across the county. It's easier for me and my class once a week than a family with multiple children who go daily.

What's wrong with a centrally-located community center? They scale better than elementary schools do.

How do you think that would work for elderly people who really shouldn't drive anymore but want to stay engaged, yet can't get to that centrally-located community center without riding buses for an hour each way and transferring twice?

They can continue to use the many low-cost/free transportation options that the county offers for senior citizens. Cheaper and safer than owning/driving a car.
https://aging-disability.arlingtonva.us/resources/transportation/
https://www.arlingtontransit.com/riding-art/how-to-ride/how-to-ride-for-senior-citizens/senior-center-adult-transportation-scat/

Those options are pretty limited. It's basically either reduced cost mass transit (assuming it runs near your home), or a reduced-cost shuttle service where you have to know a week in advance exactly what time you'll want to go to the community center to exercise.

Let’s be clear, public education is a core government function. Providing extracurricular programming for bored seniors isn’t.

Let's be clear, IPads, Small Class Sizes, Swimming, Montessori, Immersion, Pre-K FLES...are not core government functions.

Those are all aspects of public education that Arlingtonians value and are willing to pay for.

The county wants a fairly desirable school system. Not “the best” or they’d be putting even more money into it.

Only 22% of Arlington households have minor children. 20% of Arlington citizens are 55+. I wouldn't be so confident in your assumption that "Arlingtonians" have any kind of consensus about what resources we should be putting into schools, and at the expense of which other groups' interests.

Good points. Again, minor children are entitled to a free, public education. 55+, are not entitled to a community center. See the big, huge, wonderful space that could have been a county-wide, accessible choice school next to barrett? It's us, providing free entertainment to the 55+ers with over a mil in home equity.

And those students are getting an education, even if we don’t build another elementary school, so what people are “entitled” to isn’t all that relevant.

Like, physically where are they going to get that education without another elementary school? I’m pretty sure the Virginia highlands cc is going to be an elemntary school within 10 years. Once the boomer bulge shuffles off to Sunrise, the portion of the population that won’t get more social security and Medicare benefits that they paid for, and will have to work into their 70s to get anything at all, will do what’s right, build another school and think about the generations to come instead of just their own wants.