Who said there isn't a North-South divide?
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Anonymous
Transfers by sending school on page 4 https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Transfer-Report-2017-18.pdf Free and reduced lunch page 2 https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/FREE-REDUCED-OCTOBER-31-2017.pdf Student Civil Rights info page 1 https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Civil-Rights-Table-1-2017-12-7-web.pdf The racial composition at HB Woodlawn matches Yorktown very closely. |
Anonymous
People like who don’t see the benefit to having a 50% poverty rate spread where it is feasible are a HUGE problem. Protecting Henry or wherever makes you no better than Yorktown trolls. |
Anonymous
There are several people participating in this discussion (even just in the quoted portion), so I'd be careful about the assumptions you make about who said what and where they're coming from. To give you an example, I am one person (not the only one) who questioned the wisdom of simply making all of the SA schools 50% FARMS. I also, in other discussions, have suggested ways we might get more busing across Rte 50 to help spread things out further and alternative ways we might help the schools where we can't do better via boundaries at the time. Thus, when I question 50%, I am not saying we should try for better than all-50% because I'm trying to protect Henry/Fleet (I live in North Arlington, I have no investment in Henry/Fleet), I'm saying it because I think we legitimately can do better for everyone. When you then insult me, tell me to shut up and call me a troll, you're telling me not to bother trying to help anymore because it's not welcome. So that's what I'll do. I'll stop trying to help. I'll stop posting school board meeting/work session summaries when key issues are discussed so that people here can have more information to work with. I'll stop posting it when I see some potentially useful information or data. I'll stop raising considerations about other schools when I go to office hours. I'll stop thinking about whether the best solution for my neighborhood might negatively affect someone else's. I'll keep to my corner of the county and stay out of yours. |
Anonymous
Please. Arlington-SGA-know-it-all’s couldn’t stop posting here if their lives depended on it. You want to include Barret, Longbranch, and Ashlawn? Great, but that’s not a new idea, and let’s not pretend it will move the needle that much. Aiming for a 50 percent spread would make a huge impact. |
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Anonymous
| What's an SGA? |
Anonymous
Student government association? |
Anonymous
Don't think fourth graders are posting to dcum. |
Anonymous
Whoosh! |
Anonymous
Poster you're telling to take another drink here. I am not self-serving here. We're done with the lower levels of schooling; but my kids went to a 65% FRL elementary school. It's simply absolutely assanine to even suggest that all the FRL south of 50 must remain south of 50 and be spread evenly across all south arlington schools. I never suggested jamestown has to have an equal %FRL, or any other school, for that matter - unlike the person suggesting all south Arlington schools should be 50% FRL. Why should every school in SA be Title I? If you're going to move kids around anyway, they can just as easily - if not more easily - inch upward north of 50. Henry would gladly take a higher % again - but I don't think they should take it all the way back to 50 again. Oakridge could take more again, too. But when you have high-performing schools with actual healthy percentages of economic diversity, why should you ruin it? There are other FEASIBLE ways to help the highest concentrations of poverty. And don't ask what "my grand plan" is because countless ideas and suggestions have been proposed and argued to death in countless strings on this forum and you know it. Every single one of them is mocked and rebuked and dismissed by people like you. |
Anonymous
TL  R
“ my school is doing great and shouldn’t have to take more FRL kids. I’m enjoying my soaring property values thankyouverymuch. Let Randolph and Bracroft solve their own problems.” North Arlington and south Arlington really aren’t that different. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
BS. The poster said, explicitly, that he/she would be fine increasing the farms percentage but not to a tipping point where poverty would dominate. Time and again, I hear you accusing SA parents of being the assh@le you are. Very distinctive. Why the hate? my guess is you're an Arlington Forest type. NA - but barely. You've got more common cause with SA than you think. |
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There are schools with almost 80% poverty. Wouldn’t it be something if we took the next boundary go around to focus on getting those free reduced lunch rates down toward 50%. It might mean that Hoffman Boston, Fleet, and Oakridge see an increase for their poverty rate, and I would bet it would have to push them close to 50%.
The next boundary shift is largely focused on south Arlington schools. So it makes sense that it would be solved with south Arlington schools. |
Anonymous
| No it doesn’t. It’s one county. S Arlington is approximately 1/3 of the size of N Arlington. It’s an Arlington problem. |