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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did the livestream capture the "Keep Henry Together" t-shirts? 
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The takeaway from these materials is that Columbia Forest didn't see it coming until it was too late, and that a mass of white parents wearing matching tshirts gets what they want from APS every time.[/quote]

While I tend to agree and know it can be hard to change these maps once a true proposal is out, this map exposes APS on the “loud well off white people” get what they want criticism. Some of the decisions imbedded are going to be hard to justify.

And for anyone looking at the Drew boundary, do some research. On other occasions, APS has said that across the park situation didn’t create contiguous planning units. [/quote]

??? Who are you talking about?

I really, really wish they hadn’t built Fleet and forced Henry to move.  They should have just built another elementary in crystal city.  Between this and the career center, it has been a planning disaster and tearing our community apart. [/quote]

Huh? Fleet/Henry just got exactly what they wanted: a brand new school, with a lower farms rate and no one rezoned. Next up they'll have their own low farms high school.[/quote]

Nope. Henry wanted to stay at Henry and build on. We were told it couldn’t be done (and this was before Reed), and that if we moved Nauck would finally get it’s own elementary that they were denied in the past.  [/quote]

Lol, so you are upset that you don't get to stay in an old ugly building, and have to move, student body entirely intact, to a brand new school building? Please spare me this bs. [/quote]p

Or is that you feel guilty about acting out of self interest, and your part in creating a school that is over 80% poor at Drew? I could see how that might bother you. You chose your side though.[/quote]

No, I’m not upset.  Just trying to say that it’s too bad that now south Arlington is fighting each other when we should be a solid front. Honestly though, I now get how north Arlington gets tired of us.  I guess it’s all relative.[/quote]

And I'm saying don't expect any solidarity from Drew when you print matching tshirts to avoid being rezoned to Drew. [/quote]

Gotcha. FWIW, I’m 3 blocks from Fleet, so rezoning wouldn’t have personally affected me. Just supporting keeping my community together when we feel that that was promised to us.  Although I see how your view that differently.  [/quote]

Yep, you all got what you felt you were promised (even though you weren’t), to keep yourselves together away from Drew. I dont live in the middle of any of this and even I could see straight through your rhetoric. If Drew had been some prize, it would have been like when they did the boundaries for Discovery and sure, the Nottingham people were bummed about splitting up the community, but none of the folks going to Discovery fought too hard because look where they were going. Some of you would have coped with Drew if it had a slide and was a little more white.

And the whole claim of a promise is so ridiculous. What school gets a promise that none of its planning units will be moved in a full boundary redrawing? What is the precedent for that? It’s kind of embarrassing that you all kept waiving that out there as if the rest of us were stupid enough to believe anyone in a position to make those decisions would actually promise that.[/quote]

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