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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SB should hear other schools say

We support options schools, but they should not take priority over neighborhood schools, especially when data shows a neighborhood school was needed where Key sits when the revised the options policy, today and in the future.

Let’s not kid ourselves about diversity at option schools being the magic solution to demographics.  While they look balanced, the create the imbalance at neighborhood schools, like Carlin Springs, Barcroft, Drew, Randolph (more?). If the can’t move then maybe they should cease to exist.

If more McKinley students can walk to Reed then to can walk to McKinley, common sense demands Reed is a shifted McKinley.[/quote]

Housing segregation is what causes Barcroft, Randolph, etc, to be high poverty. Barcroft Apartments was built as housing for single adults, and it was until the 1980s when families started crowding into small apartments. Likewise, we now build family oriented subsidized housing in a small geographic area. South Arlington, and the poorest parts of it.

You can run the numbers yourself. If every single student zoned to Randolph went there, with no opt outs, it’s FRL rate would drop less than 10 points. It’d still be 65 percent FRL. Douglas park is a very large SFH neighborhood. But Barcroft Apts is simply enormous. It can’t be balanced. And neither can developments like the Berkeley, or Columbia Hills, a new one of which opens every year.  Each such building will produce over 100 high needs kids every year, forever, with no fluctuation based on generational turnover like in every other housing type.

To be blunt, option schools may not be the ideal method for producing demographic diversity, but given this county’s segregated history, it’s unwillingness to use current housing policy to offset it via geographic distribution, and parents resistance to boundary changes and devotion to “walkability” ... option schools are literally the only method left.[/quote]

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