class action against APS what are our options?

[Anonymous]

The realignment plans are a joke. Is DOE the place to complain if the system is stacking the schools based on socio economic lines. They are in essence resegregated the schools. They are cloaking it under neighborhoods but its clear the more expensive homes are walking to schools that are scoring better and the less expensive areas, along with high immigrate populations are being zoned to the lower achieve schools. Of course in this country still race and money tend to go hand and hand.

[Anonymous]

“Our”? Lol. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

The courts had shifted towards allowing de facto resegregation and this isn't the Obama Administration, either. You'd be wasting your time. Vote in a different School Board if you want change.

[Anonymous]

Isn't your real beef against the county, for continuing to put affordable housing in areas where there is already a lot of low-market-rate housing? Because I think that's the real problem here.

If enough middle class families are moved as a block to a "lower achieving" school, in theory it should become a higher performing school, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Our”? Lol. Good luck.

An interview with Professor Gary Orfield, Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard May 2004 marks 50 years since the landmarkBrown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that declared "separate not equal" and jumpstarted a legally mandated approach to desegregate the nation's schools. But how far have we come? Research from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard and Professor Gary Orfield indicates that American schools are not nearly as desegregated as one might think and that while we should recognize the 50-year anniversary of Brown, it is not necessarily a time for celebration.

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/04/05/still-separate-after-all-these-years

[Anonymous]

File as many complaints as you can as soon as you can. Contact the NAACP. Contact Moriah Balingit at the Washington Post. Make noise. And look for a Civil Rights attorney who may take this case on pro bono.

[Anonymous]

So lower income areas have poorer performing schools, who would have thought? Education is driven by parent involvement in the child's education, even if if just means reinforcing that education is valuable and paying attention to your kid's grades and asking about school and expecting them to do well. And the real problem is that lower income parents place less value on education than higher income parents. Also parents with college degrees have higher expectations of their kids as well. Many successful people come out of bad schools, but this is because their parents placed a high value on their kids getting an education.

If the parents don't teach that education has value it doesn't matter which school the kid attends.

Poor white boy whose parents cared about education and came from a really crappy school system that now has a PhD. Who saw that every kid whose parents cared about education and were engaged in their child's education did well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:File as many complaints as you can as soon as you can. Contact the NAACP. Contact Moriah Balingit at the Washington Post. Make noise. And look for a Civil Rights attorney who may take this case on pro bono.

You have no case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:File as many complaints as you can as soon as you can. Contact the NAACP. Contact Moriah Balingit at the Washington Post. Make noise. And look for a Civil Rights attorney who may take this case on pro bono.

You have no case.

Well then you have nothing to be worried about, do you? Know what? Law suits and the threat of law suits get things done, regardless of merit. Why do you think the county stopped pursuing distribution of AH? A law suit, that was without merit and which the county ultimately won, but which wasted 12 million of their dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:File as many complaints as you can as soon as you can. Contact the NAACP. Contact Moriah Balingit at the Washington Post. Make noise. And look for a Civil Rights attorney who may take this case on pro bono.

You have no case.

Well then you have nothing to be worried about, do you? Know what? Law suits and the threat of law suits get things done, regardless of merit. Why do you think the county stopped pursuing distribution of AH? A law suit, that was without merit and which the county ultimately won, but which wasted 12 million of their dollars.

Get back to us when you file.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:File as many complaints as you can as soon as you can. Contact the NAACP. Contact Moriah Balingit at the Washington Post. Make noise. And look for a Civil Rights attorney who may take this case on pro bono.

You have no case.

Well then you have nothing to be worried about, do you? Know what? Law suits and the threat of law suits get things done, regardless of merit. Why do you think the county stopped pursuing distribution of AH? A law suit, that was without merit and which the county ultimately won, but which wasted 12 million of their dollars.

So you're advocating filing a suit that you know is frivolous? I hope you end up paying fees for APS after someone forwards this thread to Arlington lawyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:File as many complaints as you can as soon as you can. Contact the NAACP. Contact Moriah Balingit at the Washington Post. Make noise. And look for a Civil Rights attorney who may take this case on pro bono.

You have no case.

Well then you have nothing to be worried about, do you? Know what? Law suits and the threat of law suits get things done, regardless of merit. Why do you think the county stopped pursuing distribution of AH? A law suit, that was without merit and which the county ultimately won, but which wasted 12 million of their dollars.

Who said they’re worried?

[Anonymous]

Stop scheming to WASTE our taxpayer dollars and redirect your efforts to getting involved in the schools, supporting non-established candidates, etc.

Unless you are actually expending energy and time (and hopefully donate money) to help low income students in your community, your are a HYPOCRITE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The realignment plans are a joke. Is DOE the place to complain if the system is stacking the schools based on socio economic lines. They are in essence resegregated the schools. They are cloaking it under neighborhoods but its clear the more expensive homes are walking to schools that are scoring better and the less expensive areas, along with high immigrate populations are being zoned to the lower achieve schools. Of course in this country still race and money tend to go hand and hand.

Often, correlation does not equal causation.

But sometimes it does.

[Anonymous]

Here's the big flaw with your plan: The premise of your argument would be that the county is disadvantaging minority students against their will in order to preserve/increase segregation. In so many of the options to give more balanced diversity between the schools, though, it was the minority groups who would have been moved to achieve that diversity who protested the move and wanted to stay in the closer school (for instance, the families in Hall's Hill and the Williamsburg island who didn't want to be bused to Williamsburg rather than going to the closer school with their ES classmates just to make Williamsburg more diverse). So not only would you probably not get those families on board with your lawsuit (since prevailing would mean them having to do something they have very explicitly stated they do not want to do), but it would completely undermine your case that APS offered a more balanced option and the people who supposedly would benefit most from it rejected it in favor of a less balanced option.