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[quote=Anonymous][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, just tough choices [b]that require a lot of time and effort to build consensus around. [/b]

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]

This will never happen. It's time for the people we elected to lead to do just that and to make the tough choices. Because there is no neighborhood that won't try to fight a new school for one reason or another. And there will always be some who think it's okay to short-change today's children in order to keep their taxes lower. "The Arlington Way" is now just a smoke screen for officials to hide behind. MAKE THE TOUGH CHOICES. THAT WHAT LEADERS DO. [/quote]

I don't think people understand that some of the tradeoffs are between today's children and today's children. If they commit to a new high school, that takes a lot of other construction off the table. Kids at the elementary and middle school level will be in trailers and unrenovated schools for the next 10 years. There won't be enough money to deal with the overcrowding at Long Branch, the R-B corridor, Oakridge overcrowding that isn't addressed by the new S. Arlington elementary, etc. The tradeoffs aren't all between a new high school and parkland. It's between a high school and two new elementary schools and two expansions. [/quote]

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