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

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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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Oh, so you don't mean compromise. You mean accept a lower performing school with fewer resources or leave. Ok.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Oh, so you don't mean compromise. You mean accept a lower performing school with fewer resources or leave. Ok.

That is called an ultimatum, not a compromise.

[Anonymous]

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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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

It’s not my school you freaking idiot...
How many pages are we at now and you still don’t understand the numbers? The data? The geography?
It doesn’t matter if the UMC families stay. Even if they ALL stay, it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to balance demographics. Never mind. Please keep your kids uptown. They will need every advantage they can get. Bless their hearts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

Oh, so you don't mean compromise. You mean accept a lower performing school with fewer resources or leave. Ok.

Or go to that lower-performing school with a commitment to do what you can to improve it. Put your money where your mouth is before asking other people to follow you.

[Anonymous]

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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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

Randolphs problem is that it will never have a balance of economic status EVEN IF all the kids from SFH in Douglas park went to school there. Barcroft apartments is just massive and dominates that school top to bottom.

[Anonymous]

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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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

It’s not my school you freaking idiot...
How many pages are we at now and you still don’t understand the numbers? The data? The geography?
It doesn’t matter if the UMC families stay. Even if they ALL stay, it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to balance demographics. Never mind. Please keep your kids uptown. They will need every advantage they can get. Bless their hearts.

Ah, the righteous indignation of people who demand more of others than they are willing to do themselves...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

Randolphs problem is that it will never have a balance of economic status EVEN IF all the kids from SFH in Douglas park went to school there. Barcroft apartments is just massive and dominates that school top to bottom.

Yep. If it could be "fixed" simply by having the UMC kids zoned for it going to school there, it would have been fixed years ago, like Henry and Oakridge. For that to happen would require a boundary redraw that would increase the Farms rate elsewhere - possibly NA- and we all know how feasible that is. NA's sob stories are louder and have more money and votes behind them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

It’s not my school you freaking idiot...
How many pages are we at now and you still don’t understand the numbers? The data? The geography?
It doesn’t matter if the UMC families stay. Even if they ALL stay, it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to balance demographics. Never mind. Please keep your kids uptown. They will need every advantage they can get. Bless their hearts.

Ah, the righteous indignation of people who demand more of others than they are willing to do themselves...

But, but, but the parents from N. Arlington are Democrats and Progressives and fully supportive of diversity and AH (provided it's not in their schools and in their neighborhoods...)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

It’s not my school you freaking idiot...
How many pages are we at now and you still don’t understand the numbers? The data? The geography?
It doesn’t matter if the UMC families stay. Even if they ALL stay, it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to balance demographics. Never mind. Please keep your kids uptown. They will need every advantage they can get. Bless their hearts.

Ah, the righteous indignation of people who demand more of others than they are willing to do themselves...

Just say you don’t give a s#it about anyone but yourself and be done with it. You are boring.

[Anonymous]

Most of the north Arlington posters don’t know where Barcroft apts is, let alone the scale. They are wrapped up with ASFS. This isn’t very interesting by comparison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

Randolphs problem is that it will never have a balance of economic status EVEN IF all the kids from SFH in Douglas park went to school there. Barcroft apartments is just massive and dominates that school top to bottom.

Yep. If it could be "fixed" simply by having the UMC kids zoned for it going to school there, it would have been fixed years ago, like Henry and Oakridge. For that to happen would require a boundary redraw that would increase the Farms rate elsewhere - possibly NA- and we all know how feasible that is. NA's sob stories are louder and have more money and votes behind them.

Zzzzzzzzz... wake me up when you start talking about ASFS and terrorism at PTA meetings.
-mona

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

It’s not my school you freaking idiot...
How many pages are we at now and you still don’t understand the numbers? The data? The geography?
It doesn’t matter if the UMC families stay. Even if they ALL stay, it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to balance demographics. Never mind. Please keep your kids uptown. They will need every advantage they can get. Bless their hearts.

Ah, the righteous indignation of people who demand more of others than they are willing to do themselves...

But, but, but the parents from N. Arlington are Democrats and Progressives and fully supportive of diversity and AH (provided it's not in their schools and in their neighborhoods...)

If they were really progressive they would bail out SA homeowners who aren't getting the ROI they anticipated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

It’s not my school you freaking idiot...
How many pages are we at now and you still don’t understand the numbers? The data? The geography?
It doesn’t matter if the UMC families stay. Even if they ALL stay, it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to balance demographics. Never mind. Please keep your kids uptown. They will need every advantage they can get. Bless their hearts.

Ah, the righteous indignation of people who demand more of others than they are willing to do themselves...

But, but, but the parents from N. Arlington are Democrats and Progressives and fully supportive of diversity and AH (provided it's not in their schools and in their neighborhoods...)

If they were really progressive they would bail out SA homeowners who aren't getting the ROI they anticipated.

The biggest real estate appreciation in Arlington has been in 22204.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

Randolph certainly will never have balance if UMC families refuse to stay there. If it's not good enough for you, why should it be good enough for someone else just because they live even further away? No one believe this little sob story you have going about how you're doing the neighborhood a favor by deigning to live there while fighting tooth and nail to avoid being a part of it.

It’s not my school you freaking idiot...
How many pages are we at now and you still don’t understand the numbers? The data? The geography?
It doesn’t matter if the UMC families stay. Even if they ALL stay, it doesn’t matter. It’s not enough to balance demographics. Never mind. Please keep your kids uptown. They will need every advantage they can get. Bless their hearts.

Ah, the righteous indignation of people who demand more of others than they are willing to do themselves...

But, but, but the parents from N. Arlington are Democrats and Progressives and fully supportive of diversity and AH (provided it's not in their schools and in their neighborhoods...)

Vote left, live right!