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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new Macarthur will have a preschool to fill the new extra seats. With Wilson's plans to build giant subsidized apartment buildings in the school zone I'm sure it'll be overcrowded in no time. Also, why can't the plant grass in fields instead of turf!! [/quote]

MacArthur currently has 19 kids "enrolled" in pre-k. I'm guessing that it means that 19 kids from the MacArthur district go to the ACPS pre-k. 20 kids doesn't seem like they are going to fill up that giant school.

It's not just Wilson who wants the housing. Hutchings spoke about it positively about housing on school grounds at the Alexandria Housing summit in Jan of 2020. I assume his hand picked replacement agrees. Alderton was outright hostile to parents and the neighbors when it came up previously at GM (although she was against it at Minnie Howard but maybe she plans to send her kids there after their private school). Heck everyone on the last school board sat through multiple meetings about it before it was made public and they pretended not to know. Cindy Anderson and Veronica Nolan tried really hard to deny that they knew this was even a topic even after the videos of them meeting about it in 2019 surfaced.

MacArthur really dodged a bullet on housing- sad that it was so clearly ok with the then MacArthur PTA Prez (later President of PTAC of course) who didn't even put up a fight against adult housing on school grounds.

Looks like it will be the same at George Mason. Parents and the neighborhood don't seem to be paying attention or actually know what's going on or when things are happening. My sense is...they'll just cave. [/quote]

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