No decision to concentrate poverty in south arlington? Are you kidding me? When was the last time you visited Columbia pike? Two new developments are going up right now to add thousands of new family units, all of which will feed into one already over crowded title I school. When was the last time an entire complex of low income housing was built in north arlington? The requirement to add a few units in new development does not compare to entire complexes built next to already existing low income housing. Those are the kids filing up south arlington schools.

How is a streetcar going to develop south arlington? No business catering to higher income people is going to want to be in an area that is predominately low income housing. You won't get anything on the pike west of glebe. I have nothing against a street car, I think they are cute, but they cannot change the local clientele.

The problem isn't that it "falls neatly" in arlington with route 50 as the dividing line, the people that run this county want to keep it in the south, away from all the wealthier folks in the north.

Anonymous wrote:I am the poster about segregated schools in arlington. Can't speak for FCSD because I don't live there. I can speak about arlington. North is white for the most part, south is Latino with a few others mixed in. Not possible to even deny the demographics. low income vs high income. Segregation is segregation, just different causes. Here a big part of it is this county's desision to concentrate poverty in south arlington. So, all the things that come with that follow. So when people talk about how great arlington schools are, that is a misrepresentation

I live right on the border of north and south, literally one street away. Almost every family around us does what ever they can to NOT send their kids to local schools. WL is probably closer to us than wakefield, but our kid will take a bus to wakefield. I don't know who posted about bussing kids to s arlington, but why can't we be bussed to north? We will move north, like everyone else as soon as we can afford it (and of course perpetuate the segregation)

No such decision was made. The favored quarter in the DC region has always been up the Potomac, which favored N Arlington over S. The building of the Orange line acceleated that, but at the time people did not know how fashionable TOD would become. The county in fact requires affordable housing in new developments in N Arlington and wanted to build a street car to redevelop South Arlington, though the recent election was a setback.

In general there is concentration by income and race in most jurisdictions in this area. It happens to fall a little more neatly in Arlington than elsewhere (FFX in particular has several more scattered pockets of poverty)

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like to see a study that really explains what accounts for the growth in APS enrollment.

the 'growth' started when families stopped sending kids to private schools, is how i rationalize it.

There was a HUGE influx of yuppy families from DC in the mid-2000s. The majority of the families on my street sold or rent out their homes in DC neighborhoods when their kids were ready for elementary school. These people are in it for the long haul. It is a like a population boom. There are kids everywhere. These were people that wanted to be close to the city, shorter commutes and be able to send to good publics. Arlington County has such great services and it's small size makes it feel like residents have a voice. This is the growth.

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For the Key --> Gunston poster, do the majority of Key students continue on to Gunston? We're at Key now and it's a bit of a hike to get to Gunston from our neighborhood (we lotteried in). That said, we're really excited about how DD's spanish is progressing and I'm hoping more and more that she'll want to continue. Am I right that people who talk trash about south arlington schools mostly don't know what they're talking about? I'd like to think Gunston is a great opportunity for us to continue the immersion program.

Don't most kids self-segregate anyway? If you have a hard worker I believe there's nothing to worry about. Or maybe I'm just naive.

I had never heard of this site before and I wonder how they solicited the reviews.

Here is the problem: they are really measuring the demographics fed. The highest ranked schools are all from small districts with 100% rick families. Imagine, if instead of FCPS (or Arlington), we had the Vienna school districts, or the Mclean School District, or the North Arlington.

I am in Fairfax County. Here, we have very high-ranked schools, and some moderately ranked school. Not because of resources, but because of parents and demographics.

These ranking measure how much money the parents have.

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I am happy about our ranking because I like our schools even though my kids attend a south Arl school. What is of concern to me is that I don't want this ranking to cause more people to move into this area and contribute further to the overcrowding issues we're currently dealing with. I have a friend who works in education, after moving here she commented how our worst schools would be best schools where they came from and marvels at our bickering between north/south schools.

https://k12.niche.com/rankings/public-school-districts/best-overall/

This is basically an opinion poll. Not sure why the excitement.

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When you look at them school by school, most of them suck.

Anonymous wrote:I am happy about our ranking because I like our schools even though my kids attend a south Arl school. What is of concern to me is that I don't want this ranking to cause more people to move into this area and contribute further to the overcrowding issues we're currently dealing with. I have a friend who works in education, after moving here she commented how our worst schools would be best schools where they came from and marvels at our bickering between north/south schools.

https://k12.niche.com/rankings/public-school-districts/best-overall/

This is basically an opinion poll. Not sure why the excitement.

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Anonymous wrote:Arl schools suck. The people are snobs and the homes are both overpriced and small. Stay away!

and Sir Asshat, you're the booster of which lower ranked district?

Thinking you missed the joke.

Thank you.

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to see a study that really explains what accounts for the growth in APS enrollment.

the 'growth' started when families stopped sending kids to private schools, is how i rationalize it.

I am the poster about segregated schools in arlington. Can't speak for FCSD because I don't live there. I can speak about arlington. North is white for the most part, south is Latino with a few others mixed in. Not possible to even deny the demographics. low income vs high income. Segregation is segregation, just different causes. Here a big part of it is this county's desision to concentrate poverty in south arlington. So, all the things that come with that follow. So when people talk about how great arlington schools are, that is a misrepresentation

I live right on the border of north and south, literally one street away. Almost every family around us does what ever they can to NOT send their kids to local schools. WL is probably closer to us than wakefield, but our kid will take a bus to wakefield. I don't know who posted about bussing kids to s arlington, but why can't we be bussed to north? We will move north, like everyone else as soon as we can afford it (and of course perpetuate the segregation)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arl schools suck. The people are snobs and the homes are both overpriced and small. Stay away!

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this ranking is totally bogus. our children are very unhappy at their schools. mortgage is outrageous for our little sh!tshack. neighbors are all assholes. STAY FAR FAR AWAY!!

But this is kind of true, though, no?

110% true.

Anonymous wrote:They're kidding. That's why they put the smiley face at the bottom.

Shhhh....