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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.arlnow.com/2018/10/03/new-elementary-school-boundaries-advancing-prompting-some-concerns-at-drew/

Here we have a parent who doesn’t even send her kids to the Drew neighborhood program, but to the Montessori program, drumming up hysteria on its behalf. Hypocrite much? Practice what you preach and send your kid to the neighborhood program and maybe I will too.[/quote]

It does seem to be really difficult for people like you to believe that someone would advocate for the benefit of someone else.  People just can't win with folks like you - if they advocate for their own school, they're narcissistic; if they advocate for what's good and right for another school, they're hypocrites.  Do you have any direct connection to any part of Drew?  If not, why are you even bothering to read this thread?[/quote]

Not other than being in the group of much-maligned PUs everyone thinks should go to Drew. Frankly, I’ve stopped caring because we plan to move anyway. However, it’s ridiculous that this particular parent chose not to attend the graded program (and probably has her other kid on the way to avoid it) but yet other people and the county are the problem. [/quote]

I think what makes this a hard topic is the history. No one was here 60, 70 years ago when racial covenants were in place , brown v board was still in the offing. But that history is with us, it shapes the housing market more strongly than any other factor and the schools by extension. No, the Henry parents are not racist at all. I don't think they are. Im not one of them. But I think that when we argue for "neighborhood schools," for proximity, for things that seem not at all racist, we have to acknowledge that our entire county was built out during a time of open racism, exclusion and segregation and it had lasting effects on things like school geography. It's everyone's choice what role they want to play in that ongoing narrative but just because we all moved here from somewhere else doesn't mean we've started with a blank slate.[/quote]

Not any of the PPs but well said.[/quote]

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