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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, it’s important to remember that Arlington’s demographics have changed significantly since 2006 in relevant ways. The big enrollment increases we’ve seen over the past ten years have been primarily due to real estate prices getting high enough to motivate older residents whose kids had aged out of APS to sell their homes to people with young children and move out of the county. There are simply a lot more people in Arlington now who are willing to vote for larger school bonds because their own children will benefit from them than their were before 2006, so the dynamics both of what APS needs and what it can ask for have changed a lot.[/quote]
If there are a lot more people in Arlington now who are willing to vote for larger school bonds because their own children will benefit from them than their were before 2006, wouldn't the percentage of voters who are voting in favor of the school bonds should be increasing? It hasn't, it has stayed pretty steady in the high 70's to low 80's.
Also, if you look at the voting history on bond referendums since 1980, Arlington voters have said yes to all of them and usually by a large margin. Even the referendum for the Aquatic Center passed with 64% and there was an active drive to defeat that.

[quote=Anonymous]The longer-term history of the current over capacity situation is that voters refused to recognize and acknowledge changing dynamics in the county and how they were affecting APS. As a result, the school,board was unable to respond proactively to those changing conditions without risking voters rejecting the entire bond, so they created compromise solutions voters were more willing to accept. Those compromise solutions were inadequate to the future need, though, and so now were in the position of not nearly enough seats and scrambling to play catch-up.[/quote]
It wasn't the voters who refused to recognize and acknowledge the changing dynamics in the county and how they were affecting APS, it was the School Board. The voters have said yes every time they have been asked to approve funds. During the period that you claim the School Board was worried about risking voters rejecting the bonds, the bonds were approved by 78% and 80%. You repeatedly saying that the voters are too blame is just revisionist history. The School Board screwed up, they were reactive then and they are reactive now. The blame for the voters is that they should have voted them out, but in most cases they are running unopposed.

To answer your earlier question, I moved here in 2000, so I have also seen a lot of it first hand.[/quote]

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