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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So OP, are you going to flee APS for FCPS?[/quote]

OP here - and no. Maybe that was a bad choice of words & I should have just said "leaving." I've just read so many posts about parents moving to FFX because of their disillusionment with APS. The geography & number of students make comparing the districts like apples to oranges. But I genuinely wanted to know if FFX was dealing with similar issues in a different way, and if so - is there anything APS can learn and implement to make the district better. Maybe on some level I'm intrigued by FFX schools, but right now we love our short commute too much to move. [/quote]

I bought my first house in Clarendon 20 years ago, when I was young and single and Clarendon was still kind of dump and houses were affordable.  Schools were not important, bars opening in Clarendon were.  Arlington county knew the plans of revitalization of Clarendon and make no investments in 2000 when all that was going on.
Fast forward to two kids in ES, making a killing on that first home and two others and now paying over 20k in property taxes alone on the house we live in to this county I do expect more from APS.  Williamsburg's "temporary" trailers have been there for like 10 years now.  Two neighbors have blocked lighting the fields for that same time period, further limiting sports options on one of the nicest turfs the county has.
I am glad we at least pay our teacher's above average, but managing what resources APS does have and investing for the long term is not rocket science.

Cannot wait to see what happens when another 2000-3000 condos are complete in Ballston.  Maybe APS will have classes in tethered airships.[/quote]

Arlington got drunk on the favorable publicity about its transit-oriented development in past decades. Its school planning has been atrocious and APS schools, especially the high schools that aren’t that great now, will only get worse.[/quote]

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