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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For pete's sake, stop calling these people nutters.  WTF is wrong with you?  They are citizens who disagree with your opinion of what to do with the land where they live.  Have some respect and argue the issues.  Do you think name calling improves the quality of discourse here?

And for the record, there were two people arguing the Glen Carlyn POV, a man and a woman, both of whom are perfectly nice people with reasons for what they argued.[/quote]

OK, fine, they're not nutters. But the man last night, especially, took up valuable time last night at the end of the meeting to shout points he had already made earlier in the evening.

The Arlington Way seems to have become -- and the School Board chair isn't going to be providing leadership out of this -- that you don't have to listen to opposing viewpoints, that you don't have to compromise, and that if someone disagrees with you, it's because they need to hear what you said again.

Those people may be perfectly nice in other situation, and the woman was at least civil, but neither seemed to understand that everyone is going to have to sacrifice something they want to make sure we're meeting all the needs of the community, and they didn't seem to have any solutions, only complaints. [/quote]

Are you sure?  They solutions they offered to me were to pick one of the other two options, or to put some of the other land options back in rather than the Kenmore one, which according to them wasn't even supposed to be on the table until the School Board changed their mind at the last minute and reordered the list to include it.

Furthermore, here YOU are talking about sacrificing for the greater good, but the Kenmore plan YOU AND I are offering as a solution to this problem doesn't inconvenience me (or you, I'd hazard) one bit.  Oh sure, my kid is already inconvenienced by general APS nonsense, but this particular plan doesn't make my options smaller.  For this family, it cuts down their green space, it seems sure to increase their already terrible traffic situation which is from what I'm hearing already the worst in the County but nobody seems interested enough to help them.  AND there seems a good chance that the promises of redistricting to achieve equity aren't really going to work out as many of us are wanting, AND by the way you might not get a stadium or a pool, and if you do it won't be for another 20 years maybe, but hey please make some sacrifices so us Northern folks won't be overly inconvenienced!

Don't you see that you have become the thing you seem to most despise about the Arlington Way -- you are making your points about sacrifice and the greater good over and over without listening to how ACTUALLY INEQUITABLE things will be for the people who will go to Kenmore.  But you just keep making them because you're sure you're right.  Just say it again and we will all agree with you, even the nutters.

Where I'm standing, you are probably a parent who thinks Yorktown traffic is worse than anywhere else (which is clearly wrong) and who thinks Yorktown shouldn't be asked to relieve the W-L situation even though W-L has 2,300 and Yorktown has 1,600 (which is also clearly wrong).  We are all in our own little bubbles, the trick is to see outside of them into other people's bubbles.[/quote]

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