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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]

They can’t.  APS has stated In published reports that they are beyond the point of building their way out of the capacity crisis.  They have to work with the facilities that they have.  Even if they had the capital, it takes 10 years to bring a new school online.  I would expect boundary changes, relocatable classrooms, and potentially leased office space for schools in the future.  They can’t build anything new.  It’s not even worth discussing.[/quote]

It really defies all logic to say Arlington county cannot fix this.  Sure different entities within Arlington county own different parcels of land, but come on.  It is all one county government.

The overcrowding has been an issue for more than a decade.  Poor planning then, and continued poor planning now, makes the problem worse.  Leasing space for schools is a good idea though.  It would be quicker than building a new school.[/quote]

I agree that that they have been terrible planners.  The money spent on HB Woodlawn-  a school in Rosslyn surrounded by current and projected affordable housing units- blows my mind.  Those kids aren’t in the walk zone for anywhere and we could have  had some type of neighborhood school there rather than a fancy option school for rich people.  But I do take APS at face when they say they aren’t building more schools.  I think they are going to try and be creative with existing schools and possibly leading vacant office space.  G_d help us.[/quote]

Do you not know the history? APS wanted to put a neighborhood school there. But the neighborhood around the now Hamm complained and lobbied very loudly, so APS caved, and they kicked HB to Rosslyn and put Hamm on HB's old site. [/quote]

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