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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Run[/quote]

If you haven't gone there please see yourself out. Otherwise your answer comes off as "run away from black, brown and poor children"[/quote]

If op’s kid isn’t one of the 60% farms students, then they will probably be fine. I’d be more concerned about the shootings that happen around there. [/quote]

So, my kid was there during the shooting (if you're not familiar, a shooting happened right off of school grounds during school hours. It was targeted and students were neither the shooters nor the targets). The school went into lock down, but the classrooms did not. My kid was completely oblivious to what happened. There was good communication and there was never any threat to the students. The principal has a good relationship with the police and everything went great. I'm not saying I was happy about it or that it was okay, but that students weren't the target [/quote]

And it can happen anywhere in the County.[/quote]

No, I live in that neighborhood and unfortunately there is a building right near Drew (the Shelton) that does attract a lot of violence. It's usually not even Arlington residents, it's people from DC and PG (if you read the details in the crime report) who are visiting. We used to have the same problems with the motel at Glebe and 395 before they turned it into apartments/townhouses. [b]Its not something that could happen anywhere in the County because most of the County won't let AHC build a subsidized apartment building in the neighborhood next to an elementary school.[/b] [/quote]

That's an ignorant thing to say. Shootings don't only occur by affordable housing buildings. Poor neighborhoods may have a higher likelihood of crime; but no school is immune to a potential shooter or a student fight or an individual student bringing a weapon to school. The County doesn't stop gun stores or 7-11s from being near schools.

It can happen anywhere in the County[/quote]

Sure, name the other APS elementary schools that have had multiple shootings next door over the last 5 years.

I live about a block from an APAH development and we do not have the rampant drinking, public urination, and drug use that Green Valley residents have been experiencing. It doesn’t help anyone to pretend there’s not a specific issue to be fixed at this location. [/quote]

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