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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But it IS clear to me that we can't keep cramming FARMs kids into South Arlington where the percentage of FARMs kids is already, like, 60%.  Those schools need a chance to flourish, but they won't if we keep sending them the students that need the most resources.  We need to slow our roll in putting in AH on the Pike to give the kids in those schools a real chance and not transform the south into some sort of ghetto.[/quote]

This is why we need to stop with the increase in AH all together.  We can't figure out how to fit the kids we have NOW into the schools.  [/quote]

I guess I'm still enough of a bleeding heart liberal that I want us to help the people who otherwise are going to have nothing but bad choices left to them.  We won't be helping poor people if we keep sticking them in the South; it will just become a ghetto.  But the schools in the north are great and could easily absorb 100 of these kids amongst them.  Look at all the resources they have that are going underutilized, compared to the south!  I think the best answer is really to add some mixed housing in the North, to maybe increase the chances of building housing that actual teachers or school staff, police etc. would be able to use while getting some more low income families into the North.[/quote]

But not everyone needs to live in Arlington!!  If this were housing for our teachers, our firefighter, etc., I'd be all for it.  Instead, when 60% is for people who don't work here or work illegally, why are we using our tax dollars for this?  You don't need to live here if you aren't working here.  Why are talking about destroying our parks and overcrowding our schools?  I didn't always live in Arlington.  I couldn't afford it.  I lived somewhere else.  I'm not a 1%-er and I don't live in the protected alcove or N-N-Arlington. I'm just part of Arlington that will get squeezed out as we become a county of two classes.[/quote]

So true!!!  It is really hard to fathom WHY this small expensive county would want to build subsidized housing on top of parks (as in public land for public good), and pay the way for families that are coming fresh into the county (or country), most of which will not be working in Arlington, and vow to pay their bills for the next decades, yet almost every school in the county is overcrowded or will be within a few years, and half have challenges already with overwhelming non-English speakers and/or high levels of poverty ....[/quote]

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