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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]

Didn't I read somewhere that if this bond initiative doesn't go through, the next opportunity for a bond vote is 2 or more years away? How is that not also kicking the can down the road?

I think part of the reason that more people are not showing up to meetings, etc., is that no one can figure out what the hell is going on and therefore what the reasonable courses of action might be. We can't do x, because this. We can't do the opposite of x, because that. [b]It's like trying to nail jello to the wall. [/b]Raise your hand if you're starting to suspect the two Boards are intentionally sowing confusion.[/quote]

This is the best comment ever. And so, so apt. [/quote]

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