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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The County also runs travel basketball in addition to County rec basketball. As many have stated, privately-run travel soccer and baseball get a sweetheart deal using County and school-owned fields. Tennis and pickleball players get to use courts for free when not in use for programs. If the families in the gymnastics program can get to a better spot with cost recovery, Arlington should keep the program. Otherwise, be prepared for your kids’ favorite sport to be next.

[b]Arlington is continuing to cut things that middle and upper middle class residents enjoy to support more services for affordable housing and supporting the people that brings in. Housing funding has not been cut at all in this cycle. Maybe that’s a good thing, but the County needs to be more transparent about it, and decide if it wants to support all its residents or only its most “vulnerable,” as Matt Di Ferranti stated. [/b][/quote]

Arlington travel basketball ends after middle school and is volunteer coaches.  Sorry there really is no other sport that has the setup AAC and gymnastics have and no one is "coming for" all these other sports.  I think stoking paranoia about that is just deflection.

However, I think the bolded is quite right.  You've got 5 extremely performative liberals on the County Board.   Arlington has been a very wealthy community, so most residents pay zero attention to the funding going to social services and housing supports.  People paying a lot of the taxes have previously still gotten all their "stuff", so no one cares.  And most people do not want to attach their name to saying the things this poster is saying.   It's all a bit of a wake up call.[/quote]

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