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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope I never meet in person the poster who wrote that Glebe is a substandard school because of its: "Resources, student quality, and test scores. Full stop."

We're at Glebe and absolutely love it.  Amazing Principal and V. Principal.  Incredibly active PTA.  No issue with resources, sweet kids, and no issue with test scores that I have been able to discern.

I hope there's no redistricting because if my kids have to go to school with kids whose parents think like said poster, I will be absolutely horrified![/quote]

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I miss the days when people said they lived in Arlington and "N" and "S" only mattered to the postal service.  Now Arlington is full of snobs who tell everyone they live in "North Arlington" to make sure you know they don't live in "South Arlington" and think great schools like Glebe must be second-rate because they don't have the demographics of Nottingham or Jamestown. [/quote]

Oh, how I agree with you. Arlington is completely segregated. I am a fairly new transplant here, I find the extreme attitude between north and south Arlington sad.

About 3 years ago I went to a school board meeting regarding overcrowding. At the time, now still I lived in a apartment. Realizing the county lack of preparedness regarding  this issue, particularly the lack of awareness about the type of families living in apartments; I felt they accounted for what they perceived to be the typical families living in apartments. Typical meaning "lower income", but not others. In my building alone, we had 2 school aged children when I first moved in. Within a 2 year time, I counted 21 children 10 and under. At least half were young couples just starting a family. When asked, most were not planning on moving to the burds (as I suppose hoped by the county) when their children reached school age. In two years, 10 babies were born in just that one apartment building. People get spoil by the conveniences and the amenities of living closer in and I think find it hard as I have to move further out once the kids arrived. I think the county have no clue about the demographic change and the psychology behind the type of families moving into condo buildings within the Rosslyn/Ballston corridor. When I mentioned the sentiment of people such as myself and my neighbors at the meeting, the school board representatives were truly perplexed by my statement, and asked if I could write a letter regarding what I perceived to be the "new" apartment living mindset. It seems, but I may be wrong that county planning have not include middle class couples moving into apartments, have kids, and not move to the suburbs afterwards. I think they plan for the predictable cycle - people moving out after having kids. I think the condo developers do too. That is why you don't see many kids play area in those buildings as you would in similar buildings in New York for example. But mine, is just one observation. [/quote]

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