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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks, in this fight diversity means economic diversity, not racial diversity.

Making Kenmore more balanced, yet unbalancing Jefferson isn't really solving the segregation in this county, it is just moving it from one school to another. The wealthy north Arlington middle schools need some diversity. Separate is NOT EQUAL.

North Arlington parents, you throw a fit and block any effort by the county and developers to build low income housing in your neighborhood so your neighborhoods and neighborhood schools don't have really any poorer kids. Hmmm, then you cry about how you want your kids to walk to your "neighborhood" school. So, you are enabling and reinforcing the segregation in our county. Yes, in 2017 we have to talk about segregation. Shame on you.[/quote]

Welcome to America.  It's that way everywhere...and pretty much most of Europe as well.  The poor live in lower cost areas.  Sometimes also in public housing.

When people achieve success/upward mobility,  they move their families to better school districts.

You are very lucky to be in Arlington County, because unlike the District and other parts of the Country,  you have the same high caliber teachers and principals and $$ per pupil in even the more diverse and lower SES schools.

Quit acting like a goddamn crime is being committed.  The only crime is that you were banking on moving or the schools to have gentrified more before your snowflake was of school age.  You got the bigger lot/nicer house for less $ per square foot because of the school zone.  Some of us went the other way with shit shacks in school zones we wanted.[/quote]

I hope your house is really sh;tty. I hope you are miserable in it every day. [/quote]

Enjoy the Columbia Pike Streetcar. 
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Enjoy your off street parking. Enjoy waiting for a smoking metro train. Enjoy your tiny kitchen. Enjoy having no closets. Enjoy your sloped backyard. Enjoy schlepping jr down to Barcroft to play ball, because your neighbor's won't allow you to have lit fields nearby. Enjoy it all. 
We'll enjoy schools without drug pressure and bullying. 
I'm beginning to see the light regarding demographics. I feel guilty, because the middle class kids will all be fine. Our less advantaged kids need the integration, but oh well. We can make due.
[b]I don't want you people in my schools. Keep south Arlington dickhead free[/b]. [/quote]

Then quit arguing to have our kids bused over anytime anyone mentions rezoning.

Btw, I think you should be enjoying 400 me of daily Wellbutrin.[/quote]

1) there are multiple posters. I'm not arguing for integration ( this time around)
2) I'm feeling great. Thank you. I should have had this epiphany ages ago. 
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