Reply to APS School Bd Mtg

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "APS School Bd Mtg"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Arlington with small kids.  What office/board should I run for to advocate for building new schools where current "community centers" reside, and to stop affordable housing?  [/quote]

Seriously. Those communit centers are such a waste for all involved. Does anyone have any actual numbers of the traffic there? I bet you it would be cheaper to buy elderly patrons gold gym memberships than run those old buildings for the andul of people who attend. [/quote]
But I'm serious -- is it the School Board that ultimately is making the decisions here, or is there another board that deals with siting/budget?  I want to run.  Enough of this crap.  I bet other parents would vote for me; I read the websites of the school board members that ran this past election cycle and none of them had any clear statements about what they were going to do. All gobbledygook about community, diversity, blablablah. I will run on a platform of razing those useless community centers and building actual schools (not technical schools or correspondence schools) for our kids.   [/quote]

APS doesn't own the community centers, the County does.  There's a hugely vocal contingent, mostly of baby boomers who fight to keep the community centers.  Many used to be schools but APS turned them over to the County 20+yrs ago when the school population had bottomed out in the 90s.[/quote]
Then I just need to figure out what decision-making body in Arlington, VA has control over those community centers' land.  I will run for that.  My platform will be about working hand in hand with the school board to liquidate the community centers and turn them into useable schools again.  I'm doing it.  I'll bet with some digging I can figure this one out.  [/quote]

County board[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics