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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there is something in store from APS staff regarding the immersion program at Claremont and Carlin Springs. No one has dropped that bombshell, yet. Parents and staff at Carlin Springs have been informed of possible changes in the county and Carlin Springs will defiantly be in the mix. APS staff already have there mind made up how this will play out.[/quote]

They very well may already have their answer in mind, and that's not necessarily a bad thing (which I say as a parent who isn't personally happy with the staff's short list). We all may know the ins and outs and needs and interests of our little pockets of Arlington better than the staff does, but the staff knows the ins and outs and needs and interests of the county as a whole better than the vast majority of us. If we're being honest with ourselves, we are all cherry picking priorities based on whether they are most favorable to our own community (or, in some cases, seemingly based on whether we can stick it to another community we have a grudge against) and saying those should be the top priorities. The staff, with a little more distance from it all and a bit of a broader perspective, probably can better integrate all of these priorities and find a solution that, yes, will be a compromise and, yes, will mean some communities get the short end of it, but is probably closest to what someone with zero personal interest in any of it would design as an optimal solution.

Some of us are going to win in this and some of us are going to lose, but let's try not to be assholes to each other. Of course we're all going to advocate for our own kids and our own communities, but let's try to treat other communities the way we would want to be treated. We can acknowledge the needs of other communities even if we think ours are even greater. We can give other communities the benefit of the doubt instead of demonizing them. And if we look at the solution we're pushing and realize that getting our way will screw a community that can't afford to be screwed but may not have the resources we do to advocate for themselves, perhaps we should back off that solution and come up with something a little more fair.[/quote]

I'm sorry, but that's naive. This county, especially the northern half, is full of lawyers and people who spend their day persuading people of their point of view. The staff is completely exposed to political pressure via the school board, as the arlington forest / Wakefield fiasco showed, and the kenmore / glen carlyn one before that.[/quote]

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