Who said there isn't a North-South divide?

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Ah, South Arlington is back in LaLa Land. Good times.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a cost to our housing policies and needs to be felt across the system. Very large class sizes uptown ( where middle class people crowd)
Inconvenience or some busing for kids downtown.
We are one system, and we all need to be part of the solution.

How about having the people who benefit from these ill-advised housing policies bear the cost?

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I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

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Anonymous wrote:I was at a meeting with Barbara Kanninen and she said there wasn’t a penny to add to any more buses. She said it would not happen. Walkability is their number one priority.

It was very clear to me she was not concerned about diversity.

She's never been interested in diversity, let alone concerned about it. Transportation budget is yet another convenient argument for her and the SB to do nothing about the gross economic disparities.

Diversity is not the schools job

It turns out their plans to "increase" walkers didn't actually do that or save any money (from the mouth of another SB member), so the only point then would be furthering segregation. Certainly they have some tools in their tool box to fight back against county policies that have led to highly segregated neighborhood schools. They need to use those tools rather than throw their hands in the air and feign ignorant. They have yet to demonstrate that some of those tools they have not yet employed would be more costly. Segregation has a cost, too, it's just hidden because the cost is to the kids in the segregated schools.

There was never an expectation that APS would be able to reduce the transportation budget, their goal was to try to hold it steady rather than continue the dramatic increases we’ve seen the past several years.

They can't hold it steady either, because enrollment continues to rise. There is no scenario they were looking at that made the transportation issue better, or even held the cost steady. That's the point. Unless people with kids stop moving in, they are stuck with the numbers and they are stuck spending more on transportation because a lot of our neighborhoods are not and never will be safely walkable to any existing ES. Too many uncrossable roads.

I think larger class sizes for low poverty schools sounds equitable. And maybe that would even prove an incentive for MC families to choose certain schools that they currently avoid.

To be more precise, if they raise class sizes to help solve some budget problems, which seems increasingly likely in coming years, the Title 1 schools' class sizes should be frozen, while only lower poverty schools would go up by one or two students.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

What compromises would you suggest they make?

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Anonymous wrote:I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

What compromises would you suggest they make?

First off on compromises, it is insane that ASFS was a team school and not a countywide choice for all those years. It seemed like a big middle finger to the rest of the County outside of that team of schools. I understand the dynamics, but I am surprised that the County did not try to replicate that success elsewhere sooner.

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There is definitely a quiet double standard with APS staff. There is good for North Arlington and good for south Arlington. Different standards. Different metrics.

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Anonymous wrote:There is definitely a quiet double standard with APS staff. There is good for North Arlington and good for south Arlington. Different standards. Different metrics.

It's county-wide political understanding, which is why the MC/UMC minority in SA is so pesky to both wealthy NA homeowners who do t want to share their school with ED kids, and to AH advocates who want to turn every SA church into low income family housing.

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Just move. It will never change.

https://www.arlnow.com/2018/07/19/berkeley-affordable-housing-redevelopment-gets-green-light-to-go-forward/

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Anonymous wrote:I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

What compromises would you suggest they make?

Hmm, they could go to school with the other families in their community. Or they could move a little further out if they want a different kind of community for their money.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

What compromises would you suggest they make?

Hmm, they could go to school with the other families in their community. Or they could move a little further out if they want a different kind of community for their money.

Brilliant. Can’t believe none of us thought of that sooner!

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Anonymous wrote:Just move. It will never change.

https://www.arlnow.com/2018/07/19/berkeley-affordable-housing-redevelopment-gets-green-light-to-go-forward/

And all the S. Arlingtonians on this website still won't denounce the AH boondoggle. What a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

What compromises would you suggest they make?

Hmm, they could go to school with the other families in their community. Or they could move a little further out if they want a different kind of community for their money.

And then no one stays, so the ED kids are kept separate. Great plan!

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Anonymous wrote:I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

What compromises would you suggest they make?

Hmm, they could go to school with the other families in their community. Or they could move a little further out if they want a different kind of community for their money.

And then no one stays, so the ED kids are kept separate. Great plan!

Honestly, if that happened I'd be a lot more open to putting additional resources into balancing schools because at least it would be going to help people who really don't have many alternative options. Right now all we really hear is a bunch of UMC people who bought in neighborhoods they don't want to actually associate with and now want other people to make educational sacrifices in order to bus those UMC kids out of their own neighborhoods to more "acceptable" ones. They don't care about fixing their local schools, they just want out at someone else's expense.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people would take this all more seriously if it wasn’t coming from a bunch of privileged UMC people who have lots of options available to them but are refusing to compromise.

What compromises would you suggest they make?

Hmm, they could go to school with the other families in their community. Or they could move a little further out if they want a different kind of community for their money.

And then no one stays, so the ED kids are kept separate. Great plan!

Honestly, if that happened I'd be a lot more open to putting additional resources into balancing schools because at least it would be going to help people who really don't have many alternative options. Right now all we really hear is a bunch of UMC people who bought in neighborhoods they don't want to actually associate with and now want other people to make educational sacrifices in order to bus those UMC kids out of their own neighborhoods to more "acceptable" ones. They don't care about fixing their local schools, they just want out at someone else's expense.

All these pages and still so ignorant. You depress me.
Schools like Randolph don’t have now, nor will they ever have a balance. So middle class familes make other plans. It will take intervention from APS and the County board. But who cares! Just as long as you get yours...