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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are 10+ years away from middle school-[b] I wouldn't bother to take advice from current middle/high school parents.
They luckily missed the train wreck. [/b]
If you have toddlers, it will be a different story. [/quote]

Parent of a rising Swanson 8th grader and future W-L student here.  With all due respect, the train wreck is already in progress for many Arlington middle schoolers. One entire grade at Swanson and one entire grade at Williamsburg will be in trailers for the second year. By the time my DD enters her senior year at W-L, APS projects there to be 2,906 students in a school with capacity for 2,200.  And that is assuming: 1) there are 700 students at Arlington Tech (not going to happen) and 2) APS's projections are accurate.  As we all well know, APS enrollment projections are usually too low.  I'm not claiming parents of preschoolers and elementary school students have nothing to worry about in terms of high school, because they surely do, but let's not pretend that current middle schoolers have missed the train wreck - many of them are in the engine driving it.[/quote]

Those projections may have been prepared by APS before the redistricting to Yorktown and Wakefield, but all three of the main high schools in APS will be a complete cluster*uck within the next five years.  As much as Arlington people like to turn this on its head and say it's about how desirable Arlington has become, that's little consolation to those dealing with the consequences of such bad planning. [/quote]

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