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[quote=Anonymous]Dp- at this point we can’t even handle mixed income buildings west of Glebe. We need high end 100% market rate buildings. If and when the day comes, that complexes like Barcroft Apartments see a wrecking ball ( not holding my breath), that’s when we should be talking about mixed income. I think we all need to truly start embracing some gentrification. It’s not a dirty word and we desperately need it in 22204. I understand that there is an entrenched immigrant community in place, but I can’t help but bristle when posters get a little sanctimonious about how long the communities have been in place. It’s come in waves, and back the 80-90’s they were different groups. It’s been evolving over time. Certainly though it didn’t cost middle class homeowners 750k to move into Alcova Heights in 1994...
So can we get real and just say we’ve invested too much for crappy schools? North Arlington has no problem saying that, even in the more diverse sections. I’m just not certain what the county is expecting from the middle class in south Arlington zoned to these poor performing schools. Other than shut up and defer to the largest number of “stake holders” (spoiler alert: not anyone reading this) and just assume your kid’ll “be fine”- which they totally might. Hopefully your kid doesn’t need extra attention, because they likely won’t receive it. OR go private/move.
20 plus years ago we had one of our current school board members try one of these schools. Eventually they pulled their children out. The kids were falling through the cracks, because the school was overwhelmed with larger concerns.
It’s 2 decades later and not much has changed.
Wait, something has changed. There is no room to transfer your child out to a better school.
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