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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad they are finally addressing the false claim that options schools help poorer neighborhoods.  In areas with a lot of families qualifying for FRL, it's not the more needy families applying to ATS, it's the ones with more means.  Thank you, LS, for saying that publicly.  [/quote]

I agree and disagree with that. I don’t think the answer to SA’s schools is to keep putting option schools there to entice the Middle and UMC. That doesn’t solve anything and creates more problems.

On the other hand, take away even the possibility of lucking into an option school, middle class families would be less likely to buy and rent in those more vulnerable neighborhoods, and the cycle of poverty and segregation continues. [/quote]

Dude, it’s over. SA is never going to gentrify. The cycle of poverty is permanent, and the county leadership is actively supporting it by building more AH. Every SA school except fleet and Oakridge is poorer than it was in the 1990s. And with amazons money, it’ll get worse.[/quote]

I’m not sure what your definition of gentrification is, but SA continues to gentrify. I see it in my neighborhood every day in the huge additions families with young children are putting on their houses. People are digging in because the middle class continues to be priced out of North Arlington

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Oh god. People have been doing that for decades. Their kids get to 3rd grade and they leave because there will never be enough if you to balance the apartments. That’s why all the families are young.[/quote]

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