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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I the only one who doesn’t think Old Town is so great?  Being genuine.  Tourist trap.  Bad restaurants.  Avoid.[/quote]

No, you’re not the only one.  I’m completely flabbergasted by all the “we can’t imagine living anywhere else in the US, or world, but Old Town!” posts.[/quote]

I am not sure there have been I can’t imagine living anywhere but Old Town posts.  I think there have been posts defending Old Town as a place to live despite ACPS being a poorly functioning school system.  [/quote]

Clarification that no one in Old Town are the ACPS apologists and deniers.

That’s elsewhere in the city like Del Ray. Also on council, school board, the police chief.[/quote]

Which is interesting since the one well regarded ACPS elementary school is in Old Town.[/quote]

Half of Old Town. But no one at Lyles Crouch is going to insist that they plan on staying past ES and that you should too. Most either move or go private.

Likewise the other half zoned for Jefferson Houston which shouldn’t be accredited, will generally not tell you otherwise.

Nor is this dynamic in Old Town ever going to change. The new market rate apartments zoned for the failing school aren’t large enough raising a family, which would then force the city and district to do something about it, so this way the problem just solves itself.

Starting with Del Ray though, there is just enough hope to string you along if you’re zoned for Mt Vernon or formerly Maury (before it was rezoned to include more public housing and renamed). There were boosters for Cora Kelly, but I don’t think it ever even temporarily matched reality.

I argue the problem isn’t even the high school, it’s the middle schools, and most of the city and the middle schools would see improvements if it stopped enshrining the ghettos in a single place.

Or do what other districts have and establish a remedial school that isn’t ranked. It’s not like these children are being taught anyway, honors is already internally segregated, so stop pretending and just do it. The city can even lie to itself about how progressive it is.

Most homes would increase $50-100K in property value (or the difference between the premium you pay to live in Arlington).[/quote]

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