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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So OP, are you going to flee APS for FCPS?[/quote]

OP here, and no - no plans to do that. Maybe bad choice of words? I definitely wouldn't rule out FFX if our jobs changed or we needed to cut back on housing costs, but for now we're pretty set in Arlington. I certainly wasn't looking to start a "trash APS" or "denigrate FCPS" thread. I just wanted to know if a much larger county had come up with solutions that APS might be able to adapt or borrow. [/quote]

Not going to read the entire thread, but FCPS renovated and built additions to existing schools. APS built new schools and failed to add enough seats.

Maybe that's not a solution, but it's certainly more common sense than APS has shown. [/quote]

APS has also renovated and built additions to existing schools in addition to building new schools.  Their biggest fail IMO was not building the HS's bigger when they had a chance.[/quote]

Which is really hard to understand. The DMV probably has more demographers than any area of the country, and they couldn't find an accurate estimate of what their capacity needs would be? Or is it that they got the right advice, but simply disregarded it? [/quote]

Arlington didn’t really understand how amazingly popular it would become, or that couples with young kids would stick around longer, rather than shuffle off to Fairfax.  But they got it wrong, no doubt.  Here’s hoping they know what to do when amazon moves in.  [/quote]

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