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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks to me like Arlington has all crap middle schools now, whether you live in north or south. Look at the ratings. I'll be selling and moving to Fairfax by the time my kids are in middle school. [/quote]

Williamsburg will get an 8 after all the poors move to Stratford.  Wouldn't that make you happy?[/quote]

Why do you think APS is suddenly pursuing rapid resegregation? This is precisely what the people who pull the purse strings want. [/quote]

Despite what you keep posting, they are not pursuing "rapid resegregation".  They have a severe overcrowding problem, and the smallest county in the nation doesn't have any extra space.  There were very few viable options for a new middle school -- it was always going to be reconverting Stratford back to a regular middle school.  It was where it was. Once that was decided, then you get into all the proximity discussions they're having now.  The racial imbalance has to do with broader zoning issues that a middle school boundary process cannot fix. [/quote]

+1. The School Board is misguided at times, but they're basically trying to navigate the mess the County has left them. Watch Gutshall and the Board continue to concentrate AH in 2-3 areas of S Arlington. [/quote]

Again, I'm not saying the County didn't create/institutionalize this mess, beginning all the way back at the end of slavery and all through Jim Crow and into the present day. But the School Board is undoing school boundaries that were created by previous School Boards with the specific intention of desegregating the schools, as if we're not still living under residential segregation. The residential segregation has not changed, so why should the school board not continue to pursue efforts to desegregate the schools? Even against community objections? We're on the wrong side of history on this one. [/quote]

Just because some people in the community object doesn't mean others in the community don't agree with the board's decision. The current objectors are not the only people whose voices matter. Yes, people want more diversity in Williamsburg. But does that mean that the right decision is to keep the Williamsburg island and Hall's Hill there, even though the residents of those areas said they want to go to the schools closer by with their ES classmates? Who does that benefit? People all over the county has spoken out in favor of proximity, even those for whom it means going to lower-performing schools. Why do you not respect them enough to let them decide what's best for their kids? Who are you to declare that you know better and they're just too ignorant to make good choices for their kids?[/quote]

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