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Get a grip! We aren't talking about saddling n arl schools with 40% + FARMs rates. Take a look at very desirable schools in Fairfax. I'm talking  8+ great schools ratings. They have approx 10-15 % Farms rates. That's not going to impact a school. The precious snowflakes of north Arlington can easily absorb a small percentage. 
And guess what- it's often north arlington limousine liberals ( boomers and older gen xer's ) that have created these policies. Not the middle class south Arlington Millenials who are trying to dig us out of this.[/quote]

New poster here:  What N Arl school has the capacity to absorb more students other than Jamestown?  Several N Arl schools are already VERY overcrowded and that's not really going to get better with the opening of Discovery.  [/quote]

Then the next logical step becomes - don't have more students than capacity to hold them. This gets closer to what "crazy pants" is talking about. What that specific poster doesn't seem to get, is that most of us don't believe in overwhelming the system. I think we should take on as many as we can, until we can't. The tipping point should be before the schools start sliding down hill for all students... And it appears to have been reached at Barcroft.
Busing was brought up earlier and I don't agree with it. People spent a million bucks to live in 22207- good for them. They should be able to walk their kids to school. 
However, the people who spent half a million+ on their homes deserve some consideration too. There isn't much we can do about the recently added housing, but we need to speak up about the additional Housing that is planned, and the lack of foresight into overcrowded schools with high poverty. 
This won't go over well with the further left, but it needs to start being said. 
What exactly is the plan for all of these people on the Pike? 
Transportation that is projected to be inadequate to move the number of people needing it within a decade. 
Schools that can't handle the capacity of harder to serve students
Don't forget -These Neighborhoods are full of older people who need assistance to age in place.

We can't do it all. The Pike is going to continue to gentrify, there is no stopping progress. The older apartments will come down one by one. That's why the board is so hot to get up all of this committed affordable housing. The way they are going about it isn't smart.

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