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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh... ok, she wasn't the best choice, but that's not what did Barcroft in. They were suddenly overcrowded, and with the highest need population of kids. She's a principal not Dumbledore. 
Barcroft was screwed by the county board, AH agenda, and developers. 
APS shakers some blame because of the unwillingness to acknowledge some very simple truths, and to plan accordingly. They had no clue, or weren't concerned ( not sure which is worse) about the uptick in FARMS/ELL kids that were about to show up for that school.
We just aren't good at this stuff, and I don't understand why. We are such a well educated county, but we are acting like a bunch of rubes. [/quote]

I really worry that APS is essentially mismanaged and no one seems to have any solutions....[/quote]

This is what happens, when you offer free child care, education, meals, enrichment, classes, translators, etc. to all comers from other countries in the world with no questions asked.  Word of mouth.  Who would not take up such an offer?

The county has put zero thought into this.[/quote]

They've put plenty of thought into it. This is what they want. Who is they, you ask?

I'll just leave this here:

These are older people who have lived here for 30+ years. They spent 175,000 on their home and they hate the new builds and popped up second floors around them. They think you speed around the neighborhood in your fancy car, and they think the schools are just fine- even though they don't have kids In them, and if you ask - you'll discover they sent their kids to private school back in the day. They feel the old Arlington is slipping away and don't want it changed. They are ultra liberal, to the point that they can't be reasoned with in regards to fiscal realities. They don't care that you spent 609k on a fixer upper, spend 2000 a month on childcare and are working your ass off to live close enough to work to try and have a home life. They don't care that the metro region has exploded since 1981, when they were a GS 13 and were able to afford a parent to stay home. They don't care that your kid is in a trailer, has lunch at 10am, and nowhere for recess. If you are so fancy and can afford to live here- you can afford private school as far as they are concerned. They don't understand why the kids need iPads- even though the point of that program is to close the gap for the less advantaged kids they are championing. 
To sum up- they don't like you. They don't like your yuppie lifestyle. They don't like your entitlement. They don't like that you tore down/ renovated a perfectly good house. They don't like that you are demanding more from perfectly good schools. 
They would rather move half of El Salvador and Ethiopia into all of Barcroft than see anymore people like you.

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