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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at Yorktown and I wouldn't want her going to GMU because it's too close to home. She needs to go further away to have a more independent college experience.

So now, that's out of the way. This program is a nice thing. Its probably well intentioned. But Yorktown does in fact have some kids who are lower income, so limiting this to WL, WHS and ATT is kind of discriminatory. They should probably do a means-based county-wide program to actually be fair. Plenty of kids at WL and ATT aren't lower income or first generation college students.[/quote]

I think if it doesn’t yield the result they’re going for, it will be changed.

For now, why don’t you think of if as even the non-economically disadvantaged kids, who have attended Title 1 schools, have some benefit that offsets their lack of academic opportunities/booster/PTA/alumni investment, same as for the disadvantaged kids at the same schools, while the disadvantaged kids at Yorktown do have the benefit of a richer, more connected school community. [/quote]
Exactly.
No outrage over the segregation and inherent disparities in opportunities and resources with APS school boundaries and Arl Co housing policies and patterns; but heaven forbid YHS miss out on a program being offered to the high schools with a significant %age of poor minority students.[/quote]

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