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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can never tell if these posts are trolls or not.
If you think the rb corridor has any special treatment by Aps you are horribly wrong.  They are the ones being sent on extremely long bus routes to diversify schools in the north.  All the schools on the east side of the county are option schools.  Do you think that was done to benefit the kids in those neighborhoods?  No, it was so kids in the nw would have brand new schools.   Look at ats.  The kids at ballston get bussed passed three schools to go to Ashlawn.  
Look at the Williamsburg bubble.  It took a lot of pressure by civic associations there for Aps to even consider getting rid of it.  
Don’t even get me started on the asfs mess.  How an administrator can say that immigrants are causing the school to lose accreditation and still have a job is beyond me.  The message is clear though.  Unless you are rich and look like what they think an ideal kid looks like, you are not welcome.  Plain and simple.[/quote]

I don't think the post was talking about APS - rather the County's financial investment in development along the R-B corridor and protectionism from development farther north.  As compared to the commitment to preserve all the affordable housing and replace any lost affordable housing in the County in the Pike corridor, and lack of financial investment in economic development in the south.

But I don't follow your comment that all the schools in the east are choice.  There's Key at the elementary level; HB at the middle/high.  There may not be enough elementary schools in the east; but how is that "all" option schools?[/quote]
If you draw a two mile radius around Rosslyn, the only two schools are key and the Wilson site.  The closest schools if you go beyond 2 miles are asfs and long branch, both of which cannot hold the 2000+ kids that live from the river to Washington lee.  There is no plan to address this.  The plan is to instead draw very long boundaries that pull kids to far away schools that are 3+ miles away.  
Just look at the map.[/quote]

Maybe you should have looked at a map before you bought your house.[/quote]

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