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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps some of the south arlington "bashing" is from current south arlington parents dismayed at the quality of resources and the focus of under performing south arlington schools. Perhaps it is parents whose kids are bored out of their mind because the teachers spend the whole day constantly trying to help the lower SES kids and the rest of the kids just sit there. Perhaps it is that resources to help the kids who are behind by far outnumber resources for kids who are not behind, but would certainly benefit from an additional push too. I am one of those parents and there are a lot of us. We would love to live in all the new development people talk about in south arlington, but many of those new places are not geared towards families, as most condos are not. The only development for families is low income housing.

People love to talk about how great APS is, but only half of the school district is great, the other half sucks. It is hard to believe it is the same school district. It reflects the segregation in arlington.[/quote]

I am confused. You say you are currently a South Arlington parent, but also that you can't move to one of the new developments because they are condos? If you already livei in S Arlington, why would you want to move to get there?

BTW, the "low income housing" at the Shell and at Arlington Mill is all apartments - no more geared toward families than condos - though I would not one of the new market project is townhomes, and most of the new housing on Columbia Pike is rental apartments, not condos.

As for the problem of bored kids sitting next to low SES kids, thats just the reality of any place with a lot of low income people. Its an issue in DC and City of Alexandria.  To the extent its not as big an issue in the parts of Fairfax with high low income concentrations, its because they have expanded AAP to the point where a high percent of high SES kids can get into it.   Whether that is a good strategy for APS versus their current approach is debatable.   But I think it does not justify the kind of bashing found here.  [/quote]

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