APS: Wow, the SB meeting was a DOOZY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

My south Arlington elementary is over 70 percent poor. That's NOT DIVERSE.

what is diversity then? serious question assuming more white guilt coming. Is having 25% blacks 25% hispanic 25% asian and 25% white how any community is anywhere?

did you now do research before you bought?

The irony is by the definition you just gave (racial division), Yorktown HS is the most diverse high school in Arlington in the sense that it most clearly mirrors the county demographics. This shocks a lot of people, but it's true. The catch is the school population itself doesn't match the county as a whole -- there's a much higher proportion of Hispanic students. So that drives the racial (and SES) imbalances county-wide for schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, if the goal of APS is to let everyone go to school where they are "comfortable" then let all the schools be choice. All the various minority and lower income groups can gather around their choices, as can the white and richer kids. And vice versa

I send my kid to a neighborhood school that is predominately poor and I am looking to get out. The focus on the school is the poorer kids in need of help, not everyone else. I don't have a choice where to send my kid, so I would like to choice out. And no, I cannot afford to live in north arlington nor should I have to. And no, I am not white.

As suspected its all about what's best for my kid.

That''s perfectly fine by they way it's human nature

I have a problem with people who want to social engineer things for others

All choice is the best for everyone. It seems to be working great in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

My south Arlington elementary is over 70 percent poor. That's NOT DIVERSE.

what is diversity then? serious question assuming more white guilt coming. Is having 25% blacks 25% hispanic 25% asian and 25% white how any community is anywhere?

did you now do research before you bought?

The irony is by the definition you just gave (racial division), Yorktown HS is the most diverse high school in Arlington in the sense that it most clearly mirrors the county demographics. This shocks a lot of people, but it's true. The catch is the school population itself doesn't match the county as a whole -- there's a much higher proportion of Hispanic students. So that drives the racial (and SES) imbalances county-wide for schools.

How is this a problem again? Seems like once again liberals are looking for issues that don't exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

My south Arlington elementary is over 70 percent poor. That's NOT DIVERSE.

Yet you chose to buy there anyway knowing full well what the school demographics look like. You'll just have to live with that. You don't get to do that and whine about how inconvenient those poors are.

Fv€k you and the poster above.
I am moving, dip$hit.
I look forward to joining all of the overcrowded whining on the white... excuse me... right side of town. Husband got a huge raise and we bought at the right time. If living in "liberal" Arlington has taught me anything, it's there are winners and losers. Now, I just need to keep my child from becoming a pill popping, entitled little junkie, because all you morons clearly can't be bothered to parent.
Never has moving on up felt like such a let down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

My south Arlington elementary is over 70 percent poor. That's NOT DIVERSE.

Yet you chose to buy there anyway knowing full well what the school demographics look like. You'll just have to live with that. You don't get to do that and whine about how inconvenient those poors are.

Fv€k you and the poster above.
I am moving, dip$hit.
I look forward to joining all of the overcrowded whining on the white... excuse me... right side of town. Husband got a huge raise and we bought at the right time. If living in "liberal" Arlington has taught me anything, it's there are winners and losers. Now, I just need to keep my child from becoming a pill popping, entitled little junkie, because all you morons clearly can't be bothered to parent.
Never has moving on up felt like such a let down.

classy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

My south Arlington elementary is over 70 percent poor. That's NOT DIVERSE.

Yet you chose to buy there anyway knowing full well what the school demographics look like. You'll just have to live with that. You don't get to do that and whine about how inconvenient those poors are.

Fv€k you and the poster above.
I am moving, dip$hit.
I look forward to joining all of the overcrowded whining on the white... excuse me... right side of town. Husband got a huge raise and we bought at the right time. If living in "liberal" Arlington has taught me anything, it's there are winners and losers. Now, I just need to keep my child from becoming a pill popping, entitled little junkie, because all you morons clearly can't be bothered to parent.
Never has moving on up felt like such a let down.

classy

I'll fit right in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

My south Arlington elementary is over 70 percent poor. That's NOT DIVERSE.

Yet you chose to buy there anyway knowing full well what the school demographics look like. You'll just have to live with that. You don't get to do that and whine about how inconvenient those poors are.

Fv€k you and the poster above.
I am moving, dip$hit.
I look forward to joining all of the overcrowded whining on the white... excuse me... right side of town. Husband got a huge raise and we bought at the right time. If living in "liberal" Arlington has taught me anything, it's there are winners and losers. Now, I just need to keep my child from becoming a pill popping, entitled little junkie, because all you morons clearly can't be bothered to parent.
Never has moving on up felt like such a let down.

Ah, you're the shitbird prattling on about drugs at Yorktown. In reality you're projecting your own racism and buyer's remorse about where you currently live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

My south Arlington elementary is over 70 percent poor. That's NOT DIVERSE.

Yet you chose to buy there anyway knowing full well what the school demographics look like. You'll just have to live with that. You don't get to do that and whine about how inconvenient those poors are.

Fv€k you and the poster above.
I am moving, dip$hit.
I look forward to joining all of the overcrowded whining on the white... excuse me... right side of town. Husband got a huge raise and we bought at the right time. If living in "liberal" Arlington has taught me anything, it's there are winners and losers. Now, I just need to keep my child from becoming a pill popping, entitled little junkie, because all you morons clearly can't be bothered to parent.
Never has moving on up felt like such a let down.

Ah, you're the shitbird prattling on about drugs at Yorktown. In reality you're projecting your own racism and buyer's remorse about where you currently live.

I'm not the PP, and not the drug lady. She's your neighbor in case you don't have the Google. The people going nuts about the drug issue are all north Arlington parents, current or future Yorktown parents. I have no way of knowing whether what they're saying is true because my kids are MUCH younger and we aren't in the same school zones. I DGAF if some kids smoke a few joints. But you seem VERY rattled at any suggestion that Yorktown is without flaws. What's that about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i know this is super rude but could you tell us anything from the meeting that we didn't know already?

They removed the language that gave siblings preferential treatment at the secondary level.

The ASFS team model is being removed.

ASFS people put in writing that they deserve the school because of how much they pay for their houses.

Look at the HS plan and make your voice heard before they vote.

For f*cksakes, will you stop saying ASF people say sh*t like this? We bought a house zoned for ASF/Key because of the WALKABILITY and Metro. We also wanted W-L specifically as our H.S. We did not give 2-shits if the house was located on the Taylor side of the neighborhood or the Key/ASF side of the neighborhood. They are all great schools.

I am a female with a PhD in a STEM field and work in STEM. I was comfortable with my kids at any of those schools.

The biggest whiners about ASF are the ones that did not buy into the zone.

Fwiw, I was also for the new MS being placed in Rosslyn.

+1000

There are a few very vocal ASF parents who don't really represent most families.

The majority of ASF-zoned parents we know send their elementary school kids to private school. I can count 10 off the top of my head. I would not be so sure those people live in the zone. Many activists are 'team' parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The majority of ASF-zoned parents we know send their elementary school kids to private school. I can count 10 off the top of my head. I would not be so sure those people live in the zone. Many activists are 'team' parents.

But doesn't it make sense, then, to let their kids attend?

I don't really have a dog in this fight; we're in the ASFS/Key zone but our kids are older and I am without warm feelings towards ASFS and all its works. But it does seem stupid to have a bus running through LV for ASFS and a bus running through Cherrydale to ASFS when those kids could walk.

[Anonymous]

Future Wburg/Yorktown parent here. I'm glad APS is doing something about the drug issue. Drugs in high schools is not a new problem. Drugs in middle schools is probably not a new problem either. I graduated high school in 1990 and we knew what drugs were at which schools. (back then it was alcohol and pot everywhere, cocaine at the rich schools and a smattering of acid and prescription drugs.) Kids have more money at Yorktown and Wburg so I'm not surprised that they spend some of it on drugs. They also have rich parents with cushy insurance plans and doctors who prescribe stuff which the kids can then steal.

Short of sending my kid to military school, I don't see an easy way to avoid drugs. So Wburg/Yorktown it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yet you chose to buy there anyway knowing full well what the school demographics look like. You'll just have to live with that. You don't get to do that and whine about how inconvenient those poors are.

you guys were pretty whiny when your schools couldn't handle the increased enrollment anymore. Yet you chose to buy there anyway.

kettle, meet pot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She said that she didn't appreciate growing up as the token Latino in her own school district.

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Interesting, because when she was a candidate, she claimed she grew up in a perfectly friendly community:

"On her relationship with the African-American community, Talento said she grew up in a predominantly African-American community (Prince Georges County, MD), and that she was accepted for who she was — Latina, first-generation American (child of immigrants from Guatemala) — by the African-American community."

http://bluevirginia.us/2016/03/exclusive-blue-virginia-interview-arlington-county-board-candidate-tannia-talento

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She said that she didn't appreciate growing up as the token Latino in her own school district.

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Interesting, because when she was a candidate, she claimed she grew up in a perfectly friendly community:

"On her relationship with the African-American community, Talento said she grew up in a predominantly African-American community (Prince Georges County, MD), and that she was accepted for who she was — Latina, first-generation American (child of immigrants from Guatemala) — by the African-American community."

http://bluevirginia.us/2016/03/exclusive-blue-virginia-interview-arlington-county-board-candidate-tannia-talento

Curious, no? It's also curious how some SB members kept saying that the Latino community WANTED to be moved from W-L to Wakefield. But then members of the community showed up to meetings and said quite the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So let's summarize

Hispanics are fine with their situation
Whites in Northern Arlington are fine with their situation

The only people that seem to be complaining are non rich whites who bought in South Arlington which is the area with the most diversity which is what people in southern Arlington want.....

Am I missing something.....

or are they just jealous of North Arlington

North Arlingtonian here (22207). I support diverse schools in Arlington. I also personally think the costs (logistical, political) of significantly diversifying YHS at this time are likely prohibitive. I don't think that should stop the county from doing a better job with zoning and boundary-drawing in order to diversify other schools. (If it matters, my kids go to W-L.)