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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are sticking with Arlington.  We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall.  There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS.  There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs.  Close to DC and diversity.  All those contribute to my satisfaction[/quote]

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county. [/quote]

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity. [/quote]

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. [b]It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all[/b][i], and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.[/quote]

Sure it does.  No one around here wants to send their kids to 4000-student schools, schools with two shifts, or schools in office buildings.  That's not why people moved to Arlington.

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Or just shifting boundaries! I'm not saying people want those things, but they will put up with them to live in Arlington. I'm not all doom and gloom as a parent. We are also seeing swathes of affordable, older areas being redeveloped, which could help as well. [/quote]

Help what? [/quote]

Every new apartment building that is built seems to draw younger millenials - either in the R-B corridor, or Columbia Pike. Good for the county coffers, good for school projection numbers. [/quote]

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