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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At some point you selfish NIMBYs need to get it through your thick skulls that America needs to GROW and believe it or not we can build a school or two if necessary. Your obsession with your property values is obvious.[/quote]

Why do you have to build new schools where there are millions of square feet of unused office space.  Alexandria has an elementary school in an office building; Arlington has a middle and high school ( yeah, I know its a "program" and not a "school') in an office building.  Many day cares are going into the retail space municipalities made developers add to office buildings.  Why waste money on schools when office buildings are available?  Also, the declining population of school age children and more children going to private and parochial schools means fewer schools needed overall  Why the mania to add schools?  [/quote]

People leave for private schools because the MCPS have declined.  They have declined because there are too many kids and the country seems to made it a priority to court lower income families.  Is your big plan to just make the schools so terrible that everyone with the ability to leave, leaves, thereby solving the overcrowding problem?

Seems like the same solution that the YIMBYs propose for everything.  Make SFH neighborhoods awful enough that sensible people leave and prices come down.  Transportation? Get enough density and remove enough parking that traffic becomes so unmanageable that the bus seems like a good option.

It’s a race to the bottom, and they are definitely winning right now.[/quote]

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