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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So how would a county-wide all-school lottery system even be considered? Seems like everything gets stuck or doesn't progress if it's limited to the School Board. I for one would want to see this on an Arlington ballot for everyone to vote on. Sounds like Arlington has changed a lot in the last 30 years or so. I'm sure it will change even more in the next 30.... what wasn't pursued then might have broader county wide support as different solution sets appear. [/quote]

Oh goody, direct democracy works so well in California. I love it when people who pay attention for like a week during election season decide to set education policy for years. This is why we elect a board whose job it is to evaluate solutions.

A county wide lottery? So eliminate busing like California? But VA requires busing.  [b]Destroy elementary neighborhood communities. [/b]

Come up with new material Op, these solutions have been tried and failed. [/quote]

Not OP; but this kind of attitude is so dramatic.  If you don't have kids, are you not part of your neighborhood community?  Does a neighborhood community really depend on all the kids going to the same school within a mile of their house?  And an elementary school community is whoever is in the elementary school regardless of where their home is located.  Community of any sort (neighborhood, school, work, church, etc) is what the people in it make it and does not rely on residential addresses being consecutive along the mail route.[/quote]

It does if you want the sense of community to extend past school hours[/quote]

I disagree. Schools are not there to create your social life and provide your child's community life.  They are there to provide an education. And why does it have to extend beyond school hours anyway? Sports teams are an option if that's so critical.  And people seem willing and able to go all over the county for those.[/quote]

Yep.  All over the county for sports.  And this county also happens to be the smallest county in the US.  People are so dramatic with the bus stuff.[/quote]

I’m not sure why you keep talking about sports.  I have kids in MS and ES who have each played multiple rec and travel sports for years.  The overwhelming majority of my kids’ weekday sports and activities are within a 10 minute drive of our house.  When a kid has had an activity on the other side of the county it’s more like 30, particularly if you’re traveling between 4:30 and 5:30. which is the time I would be picking my kids up from extended day.  And where people go for sports on weekends really isn’t relevant here.  I’m not sure if you have very little kids or no job or what, but yes- an additional 45 minutes of driving each day (the amount of time, at minimum, it would take for me to go from my house to a relatively far corner of the county for pickup each day) all year, for all of elementary actually is a big deal.  Getting my kids up and out of the house a half hour earlier so they can ride the bus to school instead of walking like they do now is a big deal.  Leaving or signing off work earlier every day so that I can accommodate this extra commuting time is a big deal.

And I asked this a few pages ago, but no one has explained how to pay for this.  APS can’t even get enough drivers for its current bus schedule, and those it does have are protesting over their low wages.

To the point about community- the idea, I think, is that my kids’ school friends live within walking or very short diving distance of our house.  So it’s easy to get together with them.  That’s the community.  I don’t need to make friends at my kids’ schools.[/quote]

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