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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The population is 83% free and reduced lunch. I don’t think they have many parents who have free time to be outraged on the internet about this.[/quote]

I hope everyone also realizes that if they are moved to the Campbell site they will basically become 100% free and reduced lunch. It’s appalling to have a school in APS at 83% already. [/quote]

Like anyone cares. They don't.

And what's this about speaking with "someone who knows them." Say what? How about GO to the school itself and speak with the parents! Anyone speaking "for" them should not be doing so, because who knows what agenda they might have. This school does not even have a PTA. It is outrageous that staff isn't planning to meet with parents there before making a decision. If they expect those parent to come to them, they are disenfranchising them. [/quote]

[b]Wow, did you just suggest that Eileen Delaney will sell out her students/families in her meetings with the staff?[/b]

I don't know about Carlin Springs, but at least a couple of the other schools on the short list did request to have the staff come meet with parents and were refused, the staff instead said they could choose a small group of parents to come meet with the staff at their office. It's not just a Carlin Springs thing.[/quote]

I didn't mean the principal, of course. I meant more along the lines of a "community representative" who does not have a child at the school.

In any case, the meetings with princiapals are simply to gauge what would be needed **if** the schools were to move. That's how staff described these meeting to me. Not that a principal will report the sentiments of their community. For a community that doesn't engage in traditional Arlington processes, how else is staff supposed to hear from them? [/quote]

Understanding what would be required if a school were to change to implicitly goes to considerations of why it shouldn’t change. If part of what the community would need if a choice program moved to Campbell would be more engagement directly from APS to help parents understand what’s happening and get their kids enrolled in their new schools, increase ESOL/HILT resources at the schools those students would move to, solutions for particular transit concerns, etc., those things will become part of the “cost” of changing the school’s status.[/quote]

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