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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very confusing. There are dozens of posts on DCUM about how Wakefield is already a great school. So why is there this mass outcry about moving students there and increasing the FARMS rate at Wakefield by a percent or two? Does it mean that Wakefield actually isn't nearly as good as the South Arlington real estate boosters want people to believe, or is it just some Trump-induced frenzy in which the North Arlington people come to terms with the fact that they aren't remotely as liberal as they want others to think?[/quote]

There is another element at play. Shifting wealth in the county. As more upper middle class homeowners settle in South Arlington, you are going to hear stronger resentments and accusations thrown around. I expect this letter will be picked up by the Post. This was a very small group of kids being moved, but it sent a very loud message to the young gentrifiers. The county is working against you and market forces. You thought Wakefield would naturally improve over the next decade? If left to market forces it would. 
It will not be left to the market. 
They will actively subvert gentrification.
There are decades of entrenched interests at work. They are better organized and not only work the system, they are the system. 
Arlington public officials are very full of themselves. Curious to see how this scrutiny plays out. 
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