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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Without option programs APS would be an unimpressive school system. Maybe this is your goal. [/quote]

No- people would go back to their neighborhood schools and APS would
have more money to invest in the neighborhood schools verses a private school experience on the public’s dime for the chosen few.  The very fact that you are stating the option schools are the only good schools means you should understand the issue.[/quote]

That's a pretty naive viewpoint. If you close options you will overnight flood several neighborhood schools. Unless you build enormously, and I mean lots of money. And disrupting those schools. Oh, and options are well-established in APS for probably longer than you've been alive. Longer than some neighborhood schools. Most programs have annual waitlists. Some win awards and outside recognition. They are not second class schools. We will never agree on options - they absolutely belong in APS and literally are why my family chose Arlington 20 years ago. But I'm also flabbergasted how you deluded you are that somehow eliminating options is the solution. Don't you see that alone will spur the biggest boundary shift ever?[/quote]
 
Obviously there would be a boundary shift to fill up schools where option programs were located. I’m okay with that. Go move to a red state with vouchers if you want school choice. APS should nurture the neighborhood schools. [/quote]

No, and no. Go drop your condescension or understand why some of your fellow county residents think you're a snob. Neighborhoods have long sucked  up the resources while options fought for scraps. I sure as heck don't think you need more favoritism. [/quote]

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