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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wilson is celebrating a declining in enrollment? A year of lost learning?

I’ve written elsewhere, the city’s incentive is to prevent family formation, because families require schools, which cost money.

They then encourage/enforce this dynamic with 1 bed apartments and condos. Maximum revenue.[/quote]

It is true Wilson wrote positively about the decline in ACPS enrollment but then conceded he was commenting on it from a budgetary perspective and not commenting on it as good or bad from an ACPS perspective or how it is an indictment against Hutchings.

On your second point, I agree in part but not with your ultimate conclusion.  Since the primary development opportunities in Alexandria are in transit adjacent locations (rail or bus), the city is supportive of apartments/condos (not necessarily just 1 bedroom units) (with hopefully affordable housing units included) rather than single family homes.  I think is supported not just to maximize revenue but also to maximize use of transit (ie get the benefit of the development while trying to minimize making traffic worse).  I do not think the motivation is to limit family formation in Alexandria with children (families can live in apartments or condos too just many choose not to).  I think the better critique of Wilson on schools is he is willing to weigh in selectively (ie supporting in person reopening) while disclaiming an ability to weigh in on the general malaise of ACPS / problems with Hutchings.[/quote]

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