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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you send your kids to the Drew neighborhood program or are enrolling them cut the disgust. In a few years this school may very well be great yet next year/ 2020/2021.... the idea there will not be any growing pains for a school with high ELL and high poverty is not rational. [/quote]

Show me one neighborhood school in south Arlington that has earned a reputation for academic excellence without a declining farms rate at the same time. You can't, because there aren't any. This "next few years" blather is ahistorical. It's what Henry parents tell themselves; that their good school is entirely their effort and time, and not simply the product of gentrification, which is a huge part of the story. It's farms rate has dropped 40 points over 15 years with no boundary adjustments. Unfortunately, the potential for other south Arlington neighborhood schools besides HB, Oakridge, and Henry/Fleet, the potential for gentrification is limited by county board subsidized housing policy, which seeks to put even more poverty in our highest poverty areas. That's why this boundary change should seek to give every school a rate as low as is reasonably possible, because the rates aren't ever going to go down.[/quote]

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