Powerful Letter to the Arlington County School Board about Diversity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ you have no idea what you are talking about.

^^Please cite the specific county and School Board proposals to realign the school demographics as you propose. I must have overlooked them in ParentVUE.

This entire thing has been a major embarrassment for APS and Arlington in general. They will look to rectify this in four years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12:17 - LOL. Hope you didn't read through 20 pages of posts to post something so "helpful."

lol I've been following this thread and listening to the excuses of entitled rich white people since the beginning.

Yikes. You actually hear entitled rich white people when you read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12:17 - LOL. Hope you didn't read through 20 pages of posts to post something so "helpful."

lol I've been following this thread and listening to the excuses of entitled rich white people since the beginning.

Yikes. You actually hear entitled rich white people when you read?

Yikes! You don't have an inner monologue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ you have no idea what you are talking about.

^^Please cite the specific county and School Board proposals to realign the school demographics as you propose. I must have overlooked them in ParentVUE.

This entire thing has been a major embarrassment for APS and Arlington in general. They will look to rectify this in four years.

Won't happen. In four years all the concern being expressed now will have faded, and the county will once again only pay attention to people like the Aington Forest people and wealthy families who threaten to go private. APS will pay lip service to make it seem like the poors have a voice at the table, but will ultimately totally ignore them. That's how it has been and how it will continue to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ you have no idea what you are talking about.

^^Please cite the specific county and School Board proposals to realign the school demographics as you propose. I must have overlooked them in ParentVUE.

This entire thing has been a major embarrassment for APS and Arlington in general. They will look to rectify this in four years.

Won't happen. In four years all the concern being expressed now will have faded, and the county will once again only pay attention to people like the Aington Forest people and wealthy families who threaten to go private. APS will pay lip service to make it seem like the poors have a voice at the table, but will ultimately totally ignore them. That's how it has been and how it will continue to be.

Honey you don't get it. They can't wait for you to go private. They don't have space. Families going private solves their biggest problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Actually, a focus on "educational quality" would say to spread low income kids evenly among the schools. There is a tipping point where too many low income kids affect the quality of education provided by the schools. If no school in arlington goes above 30 percent low income kids, all the schools would perform well and provide a high quality of education.

If the students were evenly distributed today, you'd have three high schools each over 30% low-income and an open question as to how many higher-income families would leave APS.

W-L is currently more than 30% FRL and it is just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ you have no idea what you are talking about.

^^Please cite the specific county and School Board proposals to realign the school demographics as you propose. I must have overlooked them in ParentVUE.

This entire thing has been a major embarrassment for APS and Arlington in general. They will look to rectify this in four years.

Won't happen. In four years all the concern being expressed now will have faded, and the county will once again only pay attention to people like the Aington Forest people and wealthy families who threaten to go private. APS will pay lip service to make it seem like the poors have a voice at the table, but will ultimately totally ignore them. That's how it has been and how it will continue to be.

Honey you don't get it. They can't wait for you to go private. They don't have space. Families going private solves their biggest problem.

If that were the case they would have moved Arlington Forest to Wakefield. Also, I'm not one of the people threatening to go private, I'm just using past behavior to predict future behavior. If you think they will do things differently, you are way more optimistic than I am, and I hope you are right and I am wrong.

[Anonymous]

Within five years Arlington will set household taxes paid as the determinant for your kid's high school and class schedule. Jamestown and Discovery kids go to Yorktown during normal hours; APAH types attend Wakefield at 11:00 PM at night.

BTW, that was incredibly stupid to sign that petition. Explaining to an FBI agent in 2018 your past membership in BLM or ACLU is going to be like David Duke explaining his KKK leadership in 1990. You just don't want to find yourself in that position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Actually, a focus on "educational quality" would say to spread low income kids evenly among the schools. There is a tipping point where too many low income kids affect the quality of education provided by the schools. If no school in arlington goes above 30 percent low income kids, all the schools would perform well and provide a high quality of education.

If the students were evenly distributed today, you'd have three high schools each over 30% low-income and an open question as to how many higher-income families would leave APS.

W-L is currently more than 30% FRL and it is just fine.

It looks better on paper because it gets IB transfers from the other schools while still being allowed to offer AP. If the other schools were allowed to offer both programs, or fewer students transferred out of Wakefield due to the current WHS demographics, it would be a different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Within five years Arlington will set household taxes paid as the determinant for your kid's high school and class schedule. Jamestown and Discovery kids go to Yorktown during normal hours; APAH types attend Wakefield at 11:00 PM at night.

BTW, that was incredibly stupid to sign that petition. Explaining to an FBI agent in 2018 your past membership in BLM or ACLU is going to be like David Duke explaining his KKK leadership in 1990. You just don't want to find yourself in that position.

Huh? Paranoid much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Within five years Arlington will set household taxes paid as the determinant for your kid's high school and class schedule. Jamestown and Discovery kids go to Yorktown during normal hours; APAH types attend Wakefield at 11:00 PM at night.

BTW, that was incredibly stupid to sign that petition. Explaining to an FBI agent in 2018 your past membership in BLM or ACLU is going to be like David Duke explaining his KKK leadership in 1990. You just don't want to find yourself in that position.

Are you making a threat or a prediction? It's hard to tell these days.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. Pay no mind to posts about tax status and school shifts. So dumb.

[Anonymous]

All this is going to turn Arlington's government far right...the white people are going to hit a point where they're going to start running "independents" who will make Vihstadt look like Bernie Sanders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this is going to turn Arlington's government far right...the white people are going to hit a point where they're going to start running "independents" who will make Vihstadt look like Bernie Sanders.

No way. Arlington is deeply entrenched blue. There is an Arlington way, and it's not going to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this is going to turn Arlington's government far right...the white people are going to hit a point where they're going to start running "independents" who will make Vihstadt look like Bernie Sanders.

No way. Arlington is deeply entrenched blue. There is an Arlington way, and it's not going to change.

The Arlington Way" does not mean much more than that people are liberal on national issues, conservative on local issues, and traditionally willing to entrust major decisions to a small group of insiders who purport to solicit community input, but look out for themselves and exacerbate the traditional disparities between North and South Arlington. Insofar as it relates to calls for major changes in APS zoning to promote "equity," that will translate into lots of talk and no action.