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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's plenty of section 8 housing in Arlington - and food stamps, pedophiles, drugs, low lifes etc. etc.  Even so, it is a nice place to live in pockets - as is Alexandria.  You can get away from the section 8 and still live in Alexandria......problem is, you may not be able to afford it - which may be the reason to move, and in that case, I do not blame you.  There is not one school in Arlington that doesn't have some of the elements you are trying to get away from.  And, when it comes down to it - there are probably more single parent, less educated middle and lower middle class kids for your kids to pal around with.    Just sayin.....be careful what you wish for.[/quote]

There are in fact several schools in Arlington without these elements. More importantly, even in the schools where these elements exist, they don't dominate the culture of the school the way they do in Alexandria for some reason. The achievement numbers and parental satisfication levels support this.[/quote]

Sure but Alexandria is smaller than Arlington and has a larger mass of low income residents and actually has full fledged areas of public housing - not just people receiving Section 8 vouchers to live in market rate housing but whole communities and developments that are old, ugly public housing. They are oddly interspersed throughtout the City and you can't miss them. If you drive down Duke St. one of them sits right in front of a really nice townhouse development for example.

There is no "North Arlington" in Alexandria City. Not even in Old Town. Well there is South Old Town but is it so small that it could never rival North Arlington. Also, the City buses kids to other schools which I am not aware that Arlington does.

No, Alexandria City is far different from Arlington. We have 2 middle schools and one high school. In Arlington, you can effectivley choose to escape low income neighbors by moving to North Arlington. [/quote]

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