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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to run away. You can't fix it on the timetable that your kids are in elementary. It takes you til about grade 1 or 2  to realize that they are not getting what they need and then you only have 3 more years before they go to middle. So you leave.[/quote]

But if you leave, no one holds the schools to account. The problems ignored because people will just leave. It seems odd to me because most of my neighbors have stayed. So go choice, but more are going to Randolph and Barcroft.

Demand more. You're already paying for it.[/quote]

What, specifically, would you demand? Boundary changes that bring in a large UMC cohort is all that matters.[/quote]

Or eliminate the option schools so people can't flee.[/quote]

For the umpteenth time! You can't force people to attend a school! All schools are choice schools. Without option schools people will just move or go private. They already do![/quote]

Sure, some people will do that. They'll enjoy their 2 hour commutes from Leesburg. There's an extreme shortage of reasonably priced homes with good commutes to downtown. Most of us want to see our children and not spend our lives in the car.[/quote]

They don't need to move to Leesburg. They have enough equity to move to North Arlington, like their neighbors before them. Or, they are just plain wealthy enough not to need public schools. Have you not seen the price of real estate for anyone moving here now?

Just doing away with option schools won't make people put their kid in a school where they will be alone. Option schools are the most integrated schools in Arlington, and they are voluntarily integrated. You can't force integration (look at Alexandria). But you can encourage it, by making boundaries that reasonably prioritize demographic diversity and by strategically placing the option schools where diversity needs to be encouraged. People down here don't need or even expect schools that can raise $88,000 in one night. But they do expect their child not to be an extreme outlier. And while I personally don't think being an economic or racial/ethnic minority would be a socially or even academically detrimental experience for a white UMC kid, I also know that pretty much nobody else in my demographic feels the same way. Otherwise, we wouldn't have these intractably segregated schools in the first place. [/quote]

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