Anonymous wrote:I would repurpose some parkland to build a new school. A couple large, dumpy sites come to mind. Greater good and all.

Office vacancy rate is 25% -- you can eminent domain some 60s office buildings and turn them into schools in no time. Or that old strip mall on Wilson Blvd which is losing businesses. Tear down a couple office buildings and you get at least the Wilson site.

I salute the old people of Arlington--the Feds, the sandalistas, the concerned citizens. You helped structure a place that has now become immensely popular and bursting at the seams. Sell the house you bought in '74 for a $1.9 million dollar profit and say, I'm outa there.

I would repurpose some parkland to build a new school. A couple large, dumpy sites come to mind. Greater good and all.

Anonymous wrote:We're in Arlington, and our kids attend APS. If our kids were younger, I'd be concerned not because there are some problems in APS, but because of the way they arose and how incapable of fixing them Arlington seems to be.

We'll be done with APS in a few years, so I'm just betting that the quality of the teachers will sustain things long enough for my kids to dive to safety.

Dive to safety? White privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:We are sticking with Arlington. We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall. There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS. There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs. Close to DC and diversity. All those contribute to my satisfaction

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county.

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity.

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all[i], and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.

Sure it does. No one around here wants to send their kids to 4000-student schools, schools with two shifts, or schools in office buildings. That's not why people moved to Arlington.

Or just shifting boundaries! I'm not saying people want those things, but they will put up with them to live in Arlington. I'm not all doom and gloom as a parent. We are also seeing swathes of affordable, older areas being redeveloped, which could help as well.

Help what?

Every new apartment building that is built seems to draw younger millenials - either in the R-B corridor, or Columbia Pike. Good for the county coffers, good for school projection numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:We are sticking with Arlington. We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall. There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS. There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs. Close to DC and diversity. All those contribute to my satisfaction

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county.

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity.

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all[i], and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.

Sure it does. No one around here wants to send their kids to 4000-student schools, schools with two shifts, or schools in office buildings. That's not why people moved to Arlington.

Or just shifting boundaries! I'm not saying people want those things, but they will put up with them to live in Arlington. I'm not all doom and gloom as a parent. We are also seeing swathes of affordable, older areas being redeveloped, which could help as well.

That means old people in old homes are replaced by more people with kids. It might help turn up the pressure, but in the short term it means more overcrowding.

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Anonymous wrote:We are sticking with Arlington. We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall. There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS. There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs. Close to DC and diversity. All those contribute to my satisfaction

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county.

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity.

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all[i], and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.

Sure it does. No one around here wants to send their kids to 4000-student schools, schools with two shifts, or schools in office buildings. That's not why people moved to Arlington.

Or just shifting boundaries! I'm not saying people want those things, but they will put up with them to live in Arlington. I'm not all doom and gloom as a parent. We are also seeing swathes of affordable, older areas being redeveloped, which could help as well.

Help what?

El Arlington

Turn Kenmore into an HS
Get rid of choice schools

Problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:We are sticking with Arlington. We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall. There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS. There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs. Close to DC and diversity. All those contribute to my satisfaction

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county.

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity.

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all[i], and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.

Sure it does. No one around here wants to send their kids to 4000-student schools, schools with two shifts, or schools in office buildings. That's not why people moved to Arlington.

Or just shifting boundaries! I'm not saying people want those things, but they will put up with them to live in Arlington. I'm not all doom and gloom as a parent. We are also seeing swathes of affordable, older areas being redeveloped, which could help as well.

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Anonymous wrote:We are sticking with Arlington. We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall. There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS. There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs. Close to DC and diversity. All those contribute to my satisfaction

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county.

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity.

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all[i], and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.

Sure it does. No one around here wants to send their kids to 4000-student schools, schools with two shifts, or schools in office buildings. That's not why people moved to Arlington.

Yes, this. The ONLY people who favor this do not and will not have kids who have to be educated in this system.

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Anonymous wrote:We are sticking with Arlington. We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall. There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS. There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs. Close to DC and diversity. All those contribute to my satisfaction

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county.

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity.

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all[i], and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.

Sure it does. No one around here wants to send their kids to 4000-student schools, schools with two shifts, or schools in office buildings. That's not why people moved to Arlington.

We're in Arlington, and our kids attend APS. If our kids were younger, I'd be concerned not because there are some problems in APS, but because of the way they arose and how incapable of fixing them Arlington seems to be.

We'll be done with APS in a few years, so I'm just betting that the quality of the teachers will sustain things long enough for my kids to dive to safety.

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Anonymous wrote:We are sticking with Arlington. We are just about to enter the APS school system with our first entering K this fall. There are definitely some problems with the school board, but overall, I'm confident my kids will get a great education in APS. There are too many parents actively invested in their kids education in Arlington County for that not to happen.

I enjoy the urban feel of Arlington compared to the outer suburbs. Close to DC and diversity. All those contribute to my satisfaction

There have been lots of actively involved APS parents for many years, and they haven't been able to keep APS from dragging its heels to address the high school overcrowding or making boundary changes that increase rather than mitigates the de facto segregation in the county.

Actually, lol those actively involved parents generated a wave of truly beautiful school renovations that failed to add a seat to capacity.

There is little to no more land for traditional school growth in Arlington, and all the well-heeled, involved, caring, and organized upper middle-class parents are not going to change that. Unless entire neighborhoods of single family homes and businesses are leveled via eminent domain, which probably won’t happen, creative solutions are going to have to make do – large schools, attending in shifts, vertical schools, co-location, changing our choice models etc. etc. It doesn’t make the schools bad or undesirable at all, and I think APS is going to be very desirable for years to come, and they may even be underestimating future growth.

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Anonymous wrote:Yorktown used to be in the top 5 highschools in Virginia , it's now number 13 and below Marshall and Herndon which is full of esol, Sad.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/rankings

I'll take the few points difference in exchange for not having to endure a horrendous commute from Herndon.

It's not a few, it's terrifying how low Yorktown is falling

Find a new obsession.

I think this poster lives in Falls Church City. When he's not bashing APS, he's bashing other parts of Fairfax County.