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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm am very suspicious of the projected APS seat deficit numbers. Especially in south Arlington. The county wants to hold fast to an antiquated trend of the most students being produced from Sfh's. The recent trends are from multi family dwellings, and I don't think that's an outlier. They have also been very loud and proud about trying to encourage 3-4 bedroom units. They supposedly want families... This entire situation is infuriating. They had these projections 10 years ago. They just decided to ignore them. Past county board members have had the audacity to say things like, "'well, we'll just have to stay crowded a little longer " when they couldn't be bothered to make a decision and actually do their jobs. I swear if I hear one of them say " victims of our own success " one. More. Time. No. We're not. We're the beneficiaries of a great location. Quit smugly congratulating yourselves over what? Realizing we needed an underground subway? Well, no shit... So north Arlington is busting at the seams and taking up all of the air in the room. We can't even have a real conversation about the completely fucked up demographics, because north Arlington is a total shit show. Meanwhile, " liberal" and " progressive" Arlington is completely dropping the ball with the schools in the south. Middle class south Arlington families have got to start sending their kids to the neighborhood schools, especially the "bad"'ones. It should be a priority of the SB and CB to help that along. They've done nothing but make it worse. 10-20 % of farms kids need to be choicing out of those schools. Get them out and put immersion into the randolf, Barcroft, and Carlin Springs. Knock on doors in nauck or wherever and talk to pre k parents about the local school. Allay their fears. It's what Michelle Rhee did. Their kids get immersion. The immigrant kids get better ( more reflective ) test scores - neighborhood schools south of 50 start getting better ratings. More middle class families stay, demographics improve and you start to see real diversity in those schools. WHERE IS A SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE THAT WILL EVEN TALK ABOUT THIS? [/quote] But middle class families in south Arlington shouldn't be the ones with responsibility for helping improve the schools. I live in south Arlington and it is frustrating to have a very small number of involved parents at our school a) stuck with all the work and b) still feel like it's not enough, yet see that PTAs in north Arlington have budgets 5x the size of ours and the support to pull off all kinds of events (tuckahoe garden tour, anyone?) And its unreasonable to ask someone to give up the opportunity to go to a diverse choice program to stick with a neighborhood school that is 70 or 80 percent Spanish speaking and poverty--everyone in that school is entitled to try and choice out. Why can't the solution be to redraw boundaries or make more schools choice schools do there is a more even mix of families in each school? [/quote] I hear ya' barkin' big dog. I really do... That's my point about the SB getting involved. There seems to be a ridiculous amount of self congratulating in this county. "Our schools are AMAZING! " "you get an iPad and you get an iPad. EVERYBODY GETS AND IPAD!!!!" We spend a fortune per student, and there is no acknowledgment between SB and County Board that housing policy is school policy. They will literally not go there. Just for funsies, we should all go to the next CB meeting and hog the slots. Each of us can give a little speech about that. I know that redrawing boundaries sounds great. Maybe there is a way to do that on the south side to help redistribute a little better. The Henry people won't like that. They have a perfect, if tenuous balance. I suspect you add 5 % and that blue ribbon slips away... And if we read through this thread- we see north Arlington is full. Like super full. If we want diverse schools, not overloaded with poverty - a percentage of farms kids need to be sent to Jamestown, tuckahoe... I don't see how that happens when those schools don't have enough seats for the neighborhood kids. It's total bullshit that middle class south Arlington families are expected to just toe the line. The county didn't plan accordingly and in fact the plans they did make totally screwed over schools that middle class families in south Arlington had bought into and worked hard to improve. But If I put on my tin foil hat of for a second... if those schools improve too much, property values go up along with them. It gets harder to keep affordable housing in those areas. Maybe it's just easier for the county to keep everything as is. That includes north Arlington. If they sit in their hands long enough, we'll all just move or pull our kids out. Problem solved. [/quote]
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