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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who attended ACPS and then left, would be interesting to hear why? Certain need for your kid that couldn’t be met, moved for other reasons, liked elementary but didn’t want the middle school, general lack of quality/too many problems, or something else?[/quote]

I loved my house and the area.  Crime started happening more frequently in the area.  My kids started getting older and I wanted to live in a neighborhood where I didn’t have to have a second thought about them freely wandering around the neighborhood.  I realized out of our neighborhood, so many went to private schools.  Our cars on the street kept getting broken into.

I thought of our investment and how maybe they could be okay in the public schools but I heard stories from a friend with an older kid in advanced classes how they just put in him the grade two years older for that content area in elementary school.  This was over ten years ago.

No regrets to moving.  Again, maybe it could have been okay but hearing the stories of safety at the HS and middle schools and how break ins are continuing in our old neighborhood.  There is nothing like that where we moved and our kids played freely and ran house to house with friends for all of elementary school, like I did in the 80s.  My car has never been broken into here.  [/quote]

So many Karens clutching their pearls over crime.  It's so tiresome.

How many kids did you know in your old Alexandria neighborhood who were crime victims of any kind?

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You don’t have to be a direct victim of a crime to be impacted. Going to a school with frequent violence, or witnessing it when walking to school can be traumatic. I heard gunshots 5 times in a couple years living in North old town. I’ve been in Arlington a decade and heard zero. That’s worth it for me. [/quote]

You're just so ridiculous.  I can't imagine being that afraid of my own shadow.  We lived in 22207 for twenty years and it's an absolute snore.  We've been in downtown DC for the last dozen years or so and it's fantastic.  In the last 30 years we've been crime victims twice, both car break ins.  One in 22207, the other in 20009.  None in the last ten years.

Hundreds of thousands of people living in DC and Alexandria somehow manage to make it through the day without being mugged, shot at, murdered, raped, pillaged, etc.  Get a grip man.[/quote]

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