Again this year the majority of County Board members will have children or grandchildren attending Arlington Public Schools. With Jay Fisette retired and the County Board and School Board committed to jamming 70,000 more residents into the County by 2040, the School Board will be increasingly focused on giving APS parents more Taj Mahal schools with every conceivable amenity that they've historically demanded.
But providing extravagant educational infrastructure isn't sustainable, given other special interests with their extravagant wants. What to do? Keep on with "growth for the sake of growth," raise taxes every year to cover the demands of 3,500 new residents and 800 new APS students, and hope there isn't a serious recession and the Trump Administration doesn't start moving federal agencies to the Rust Belt. Also known as kicking the can down the road another year, and hoping the bubble doesn't burst on their watch.
That's why we're we're happy to learn that Dr. Audrey Clement is considering another run for School Board, against Barbara Kanninen who Audrey ran against 4 years ago. For all her supposed analytical expertise Barbara's singular accomplishment during her 3 years on the School Board has been approving construction of Taj Mahal new schools with every conceivable amenity but too few active learning spaces, aka classrooms.
Abingdon School parents (about a hundred of whom are no longer legally Arlington residents, but that's another story) are already lobbying the School Board and County Board for more brick-and-mortar classrooms, although Abingdon just received a $32 million makeover and expansion.
So A.Y. is happy that a candidate with fiscal sanity who's not addicted to Smart Growth is considering running for School Board - Dr. Audrey Clement.
Cindy, 22206
16 comments:
Time is overdue for Intelligent Growth Millennium Planning
Yeah. Millenniums are about to graduate from high school, go to college, join the workforce, join the military. County's "planning" is all about dysfunctional Millennials.
Barbara is a big bull$hitter when it comes to complex data analyses. Audrey is the real deal.
Speaking of analytic ability, AY deserves a 10+ You have our socially-economically-environmentally dysfunctional headed-for-disaster county government nailed. It's only a matter of a few years before meltdown.
Abingdon School? The constant whine of Swanson Middle School Millennial parents about the junky old trailer classrooms where their kids are stuffed drowns out the traffic noise from I-66.
Arlington Way in 2018 - Democrats who stand to profit the most from Smart Growth get to serve on the County Board and School Board.
Last Senior living on a fixed income gentrified out of Arlington, please contact Inside Nova and ArlNow so you can be featured.
I won't vote for any School Board member who pulls stunts like cramming every possible amenity into a school to the extent "social spaces" have to converted into classrooms a few years after a new school opens at a cost of millions.
LOL. Arlington's Status Quo Booster-in-Chief Scott McCaffrey went after Audrey today for running.
So did Status Quo Booster Scott Brodbeck.
Go Audrey !! Any time a candidate is opposed by a couple of $mart Growth $hills like $cott Brodbeck and $cott McCaffrey she must be a candidate who's going to do some positive things for Arlington's long-suffering taxpayers.
Arlington BADLY needs non-biased journalism, not more brainwashing from County Government's $mart Growth Propaganda Team, aided and abetted by the Local New$ Media.
Trump, Trump, Trump... That's all the Liberals from 22207 who control County Government can talk about.
While earning big dividends from the REITs whose stocks they own and whose site plans they rubber stamp APPROVED.
Limo Liberals like Barbara Kanninen also want to gentrify out low wage and no wage tenants of market-rate apartments e.g., young artists.
We're a Police State. Arlington Police are always on the lookout for "troublemakers" as defined by the Arlington County Democratic Committee.
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