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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.apsva.us/post/virginia-recognizes-14-arlington-schools-for-excellence-in-education/

With the exception of Glebe, all north Arlington schools at all three levels made the list.  Not a one in south Arlington.  Yep, all schools are equally good.  :roll: [/quote]

APS offers equal, even better resources as needed to schools in south Arlington. Change needs to happen in the homes to bring those school profiles up. Perhaps that is where you should direct your efforts, because widespread busing won’t be happening. [/quote]

one teensy tiny suggestion: Maybe stop putting ALL of the new affordable housing projects south of Rte. 50.[/quote]

Sure, let's just build affordable housing where it's most expensive, so we can have less of it.[/quote]

It's not an abstract topic to me as a south Arlington homeowner with children, but it is an interesting issue in the abstract. For decades, cities built public and low income housing in only the poorest neighborhoods. It was a terrible idea. The Supreme Court said so 3 years ago and at some point, I imagine, Arlington will see a case pointing out that what they're doing is creating an immigrant ghetto in sw Arlington, with schools more segregated than in the 1980s.

At some point, quality matters more than quantity and the effort should be finding the political will and money to place affordable housing somewhere other than where there is a ton of it already and it's politically easy to do but has bad side effects. The problem is, politically, that 2/3rds of Arlington voters, including most of the AH do-gooders, all live in North Arlington where they bear none of those negative side effects.[/quote]

I don't think you should be burdened by any affordable housing.  I think the service industries in Arlington should pay a wage that allows their employees to live here.  AH is just a subsidy for those businesses.
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This is going to be unpopular, but we live in the smallest geographic county in the United States.  Further, we have invested heavily in public transit and there is plenty of high density housing adjacent to Arlington.  There is no justifiable need for us to suppress our tax base by subsidizing affordable housing.
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