Specifically on-topic contributors to the Drew boundary issue only please -
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Anonymous
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Here is the presentation
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Oct-10-SB-WS-Presentation-Final.pdf |
Anonymous
| 4 want a reduction of FARMS at Drew (Van Doren is silent). |
Anonymous
| O'Grady would like a reduced FARMS rate at Randolph that doesn't disrupt the walkability of Randolph. |
Anonymous
| Van Doren wants to rely on option schools for people who care about FARMS rates. |
Anonymous
My listening has been periodically interrupted, I’d actually started to wonder if she was there because I hadn’t heard her talk until just now. Any sense of what her reluctance is? |
Anonymous
| Talento personally doesn’t believe FARMS rates matter. |
Anonymous
she doesn't believe in reducing FARMS rates. She thinks that all schools are good and that we can (and do) spend our way out of any problems of poverty. (This is coming from listening to her over the years, not all said this evening.) Effectively, she views the desire for a diverse learning environment to be like the desire for expeditionary learning. She doesn't view it as necessary for education- and quite frankly I don't think she thinks it should be a factor at all. So she thinks that people who care about diversity can go to an option school where they gets those diverse experiences, but it is not something that the SB should impose on the rest of the county. |
Anonymous
They don’t if you marry money. |
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???? |
Anonymous
She really believes in integration by choice. I actually agree with her on this point, because it works and people feel happy about it, like they have agency in the matter. But since the rest of Arlington is against it, not sure how that can happen. I just think they need to do something, whatever they can. They can't just sit on their hands with the data they have and do nothing. |
Anonymous
I agree with your characterization of her views. And I also agree with her. Forced integration in Arlington simply will not fly. People’s lives and commutes will not withstand materially less proximate schools. Around the edges would work. But around the edges won’t make much of and impact in much of the county. |
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I haven't yet watched the session, but I have looked at the numbers. It appears that the Staff goosed the fr/l denominator by including option students even though obviously all those kids don't attend. E.g., there aren't over 1,000 students at Abingdon. But, they still used that figure for the denominator for fr/l calculations. 419/1034 = actual+option/actual+option = 41%
They are projecting total # of kids who will actually attend, but not projecting fr/l kids who will actually attend. Unsurprisingly, the % of non-fr/l kids who opt out is high for certain schools. Compare Drew's # of estimated students in tonight's data (380) vs. in last night's data (296) with # of fr/l students (251 under *both* estimates). Approx. 84 high income kids are opting out of Drew. Yet, somehow the Staff concludes this lowers the fr/l rate for Drew. Encouraging SB comments won't mean much if the Staff doesn't give them fair numbers to consider. |
Anonymous
| Don’t forget that the numbers will be off by the number of people South of the Pike that end up moving or going private. Since last night I’ve already heard from 2 families in Arlington Village that plan to move if rezoned from Henry/ Fleet to Drew. |
Anonymous
Ah, nothing like a little casual racism from people who supposedly value diversity. |
Anonymous
Can anyone summarize what is going on with these PUs? Are they now going to Drew? |