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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS enrollment has declined due to the fact it blows.[/quote]

APS enrollment has declined due to the fact that young families cannot afford to live here.[/quote]
Multiple factors at play[/quote]

You can look it up online, but APS enrollment has declined since COVID and they are predicting flat to negative growth in the next ten years. Agree that multiple factors are at play, but the district’s decisions during COVID did not help for student retention. We know many families that were all public, all the way until then. [/quote]

yes the APEs and good riddance[/quote]

We’re very liberal, always vote for Dems, and left APS during Covid. [/quote]

a lot of APE's left[/quote]

Thank god.

Too bad they still infest APS committees. 
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All I know about APE is that their existence is extremely polarizing on this board, as in people are strongly for APE or strongly against APE.  Given that limited awareness of APE, I will say that I find it baffling that so many people get so riled up about parents....caring about public education and...advocating for its improvement.  Disagreements about how to improve education are one thing, but some people seem to think your views are only relevant if you have a child in public schools.  If a parent has their kids in private but still advocate for improvements in public schools, that sounds to me like someone who values public education enough to try to improve it, and would move their kids to public schools if they thought the public schools were better.  Isn't that a level of engagement a good thing?

-signed a parent who is NOT part of APE (in case that wasn't clear)

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You're assuming the best, which is noble, but not applicable in this case. You'd have to be around them in person to see who they really are. They are not nice people. Talented, yes, politically skilled, very, which is why many people mistakenly believe they are "just advocating for better schools." By the way, it's just 3-4 people.[/quote]

Ok, friend. Based on the newsletters, I’m on board with their major issues. I want fewer screens and I want Arlington to think about educational outcomes first,  not a distant sixth or seventh to the far left progressive issue du jour. I have my kids in these schools and I care about the quality of education they get. I guess that makes me a bad consrrvative - tell my voting record that. [/quote]
I agree, as a parent and APS teacher. [/quote]

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