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[quote=Anonymous]The issue isn't having FARMs kids in school. The issue is when, as in several s arlington schools, the student population is overwhelming FARMs kids. Barcroft, randolf and carlin springs are 70% or more FARMs. And, they will get much higher in the next 20 years because the county plans to add thousands of more buildings to house Families whose kids qualifiy form free lunch. Abingdon is going to be up there too within the next several years because of new buildings already about to break ground.  No new elementary school in s arlington is going to change that, no new boundaries can change it. The school board does not care and neither does the county board.

So, OP, since you are even considering n arlington and purchasing a home, I can assume you are too affluent for your kid to qualify for free lunch. Do you want your kid going to a school where 7-9 out of even 10 kids come from poor families? Do you think your child is gifted? If not, there is a very real possibility that your kid will be mostly ignored by the teacher. Are you willing to work hard in the PTA because there will be few involved parents, little PTA money and the "extras" that do not happen in these schools with poorer parents who work too many jobs to be involved? Sad to say, but reality.

It will certainly not be a bad education, but it will not be the excellent education people like to talk about in arlington. people in the better performing schools are getting much more for their respective tax dollars than those of us in the south.

I bought in s arlington not really understanding what it means to send a kid to a poor school. My house was cheaper than an equivalent home in n arlington. But, within 10 years it will be worth less because of the massive affordable housing plans in my neighborhood. I was unaware of that when I bought. So, if the equity in your home is the only asset you will have, like me, be VERY weary of s arlington, particularly anywhere near the western areas of columbia pike. Chances are I will have little equity in 20 years to pass along to pay for my kid's college. I hate to say this because I want families to buy here for my own property values, but I don't wish this on another unsuspecting family.
Signed, a south Arlington parent [/quote]

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