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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hostility of the APS apologists on this thread is amazing. No wonder it's made bad decisions that leave APS unprepared to handle the number of MS and HS students in a few years. The leadership clearly has surrounded itself with a bunch of sycophants that defend every decision made or left unmade by Murphy and crew.

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I'm not an APS apologist. I'm well informed -- informed enough to know that there aren't any easy answers.

I see the people demanding that someone "do something" the same way I see Trump voters -- as people who believe that there is some obvious solution out there and we just need the right leaders to say it. In fact, at the national and the local levels, policy and budget trade offs create winners and losers and there are a lot of entrenched opposing viewpoints, which is why both Trump voters and parents who think the rest of the Arlington taxpayers are just going to roll over and build a fourth high school because you signed a petition are WASTING THEIR TIME. There are no simple, obvious solutions to our problems, [b]just tough choices [/b]that require a lot of time and effort to build consensus around.

Public policy is not a one-time vote on a candidate or a one-time vote on a CIP. It's a process and you have to stay informed and stay active if you want to make a difference and get support for your point of view. [/quote]

Exactly.  Tough choices.

Out of curiosity, what would you propose APS and the County do to fix this problem? You're not the only one following this issue, and many of us see them as being unwilling to make hard choices and instead leave this as TBD in the CIP, thereby continuing to kick the can down the road until it's too late.  Since you, like others of us, are well informed I'm guessing you have your own views.  I'm interested in hearing other alternatives that actually fix the problem of having sufficient APS capacity for all students.

As for wasting time, at least one School Board member has privately said to small groups of parents that they need more public outcry since the County Board rarely hears from those who care about schools.  The CB hears plenty from the affordable housing advocates and other public interest needs.  Those of us who care about schools have either typically only engaged the school board, or in the case of many like another poster, not engaged at all assuming that Arlington wouldn't ever let a situation like this happen.

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