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[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]

I was reacting to this:

[quote=Anonymous]I think PP means that unlike Alexandria, not all schools in Arlington are high poverty. I think, but correct me if I am wrong, but [b]almost all Alexandria schools have high poverty. So, people live there regardless of schools because they all struggle.[/b] Arlington, in contrast, only has poor schools in the south. South Arlington will always be cheaper than North Arlington because you can live in the community and chose to avoid high poverty schools.[/quote]

It made it sound like people were OK with the schools all being high poverty. Um, no. [b]In Alexandria, people with means live wherever and send their kids to private. [/b]In Arlington and in Fairfax, people with means live in north Arlington (or certain specific parts of FFX) and send their kids to public schools with very low FARMS rates. In none of these school systems are the majority of higher-income people generally OK with sending their kids to school with lower-income kids. Regardless of how people VOTE, what you really want to look at is how do people spend their money. Economists will call this [u]revealed preferences[/u]. [/quote]

Er, no. Lots of people locate for particular ES's in Alexandria (usually in the GWMS period if they plan to stay for MS, to avoid Hammond) The folks who locate "wherever" are the subset who decided that private is an option (many would have sent to private anyway) [/quote]

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