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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Build new facilities in South Arlington, where the county needs them, already!

Stop messing around with boundaries and whatnot to try to alleviate crowding in the south by moving kids north. Please.

And I live in North Arlington. [/quote]

So the County should spend tens of millions of dollars to build new elementary schools and leave some half empty.  Um, no.[/quote]

It’s not great, but when all the population growth is in South Arlington but the underenrolled schools are in North Arlington, the County is going to have to redistribute the kids every few years over and over to keep moving kids north if they don’t build more facilities in the south, where the kids are![/quote]

IN THE MEANTIME..... 
You do realize it takes ten years to get a new building (1) sited (2) planned and (3) built?
You can't share your space and sacrifice a little so others don't have to endure disproportionate burden? Oh, sorry. I forgot - your kid having to go on a bus or a little farther away is disproportionate burden to a bunch of other kids having classes in hallways and closets, lunch at 9:45, and no running during recess. [/quote]

I don’t understand who the “you” is here that the poster is arguing against. The poster wants them to share their space, so maybe they are talking to parents at the North Arlington schools? I don’t think there is a groundswell against “sharing space” at North Arlington schools. The objections are coming from people who don’t want their kids moved FROM a certain school.

And then the poster also argues against people who don’t want their kids bussed. The children who will be bussed will largely be the children in South Arlington, although I guess there are some kids who used to walk to Nottingham who will now be bus riders, but many of those kids can actually walk to their new schools. [/quote]

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