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If you vote against the school bond, you are going to be making the overcrowding worse.  See below for what it covers:

This proposal will make funds available for the Arlington Public Schools’ capital improvement program. The proposed bonds will fund the following projects:
the new middle school at the Stratford site ($26,030,000)  
the new school at the Wilson site ($78,400,000)
addition and renovation at the Career Center/Arlington Tech ($12,000,000)
planning for secondary seats at location(s) to be determined ($10,000,000), and
infrastructure capital projects such as HVAC, roofing, etc. ($12,400,000)
The School Board may reallocate bond funds among the various projects to the extent necessary or desirable.[/quote]

If you vote for the school bond, you are sending the message that, essentially, the School Board can do as crappy a job as it wants with planning and the community will still come across with funding. Vote no, and there will have to be a new bond vote later, and it will delay action on addressing overcrowding by up to a year. But voting yes is kicking the can down the road.

If you think there's another way to address the whack-a-mole approach that the SB and CB take, do tell. Letters and speaking at meetings doesn't seem to do anything except entrench the power of the privileged (of which I am one).[/quote]

Different poster here. Do you think if this bond gets voted down, they might revisit the idea of a new school at Wilson? I'd be in favor of that outcome. Or is it a done deal already.[/quote]

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