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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No One is ignoring that acps is mostly serving underprivileged/under performing students. It’s widely known and accepted. It has been that way for decades and isn’t worthy of note. [/quote]

And soon it will be true of south Arlington as well.[/quote]

What has changed in south Arlington?[/quote]

Bifurcation. Housing prices have gone way up. Way up. And at the same time, more and more CAFs. Thus what you get are very wealthy who can afford a SFH, and the very poor who can only afford to live here through large subsidies.

The wealthy also can afford to send their kids to private instead of a public school in which 6 or 7 kids out of 10 don’t speak English and live in poverty. It’s not that these parents are “racist” it’s that they know in a classroom situation like that is triage and the teachers are going to put most of their time and effort to the kids that need the most help. And that’s not the kid living in a 850k reno, and TBH shouldn’t be. And when the rich kids bail, the imbalance gets worse, and the worse the imbalance is, the more it repels UMC and MC families who would consider a 40 or 50 percent FRL school but not a 70 or 80 percent one.[/quote]

Ah yes. That.
- former south Arlington homeowner[/quote]

It's not racism, it's opportunity hoarding. (And it's not just families in south Arlington, it's the whole system, including people that insist on "neighborhood" boundaries that don't cross route 50---or Lee Highway.) There's no sense that everyone has some civic responsibility to improve the public school system for all kids. No one wants to walk the walk. [/quote]

which, by the way, is why all that stuff on AEM and the primary we just had is total BS[/quote]

Thank you. It never ceases to amaze me that some of the loudest screamers on AEM choiced out of Drew into Montessori, but that’s okay. Meanwhile, those of us who were rezoned should just shut up and not express any concerns because racism! [/quote]

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