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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys
If umc parents would just send their kids to schools
Like Randolph, we wouldn’t have 70%+ farms schools...
We’d have 64% farms schools!
Hooray! What a great solution!

#shiphassailed
#tankedbyAH
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It might actually work if we allowed tracking....oh, but that's racist.[/quote]
Indeed. much MUCH less racist to run screaming from majority ELL/poor schools. [/quote]

"No no, that's not it. We moved to country club hills because it's pretty there and we like trees! Also, our commute into DC is 20 minutes instead of the 25 that it would be from South Arlington. That extra five minutes was the deal breaker!"[/quote]

It’s funny to me that there are so many posts across various threads that imply that: A. all people who live in north Arlington weighed the pros and cons of living there vs. south Arlington, and B. made a morally suspect choice in choosing the north. [/quote]

Why? Only a moron wouldn't wonder why the same house costs twice as much in NA. No one buys a house in either place with the intention of raising children without being aware of these differences. It's only morally suspect when NA parents tell SA parents to send their children to a segregated neighborhood schools they themselves wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. [/quote]

It's not much to wonder about. You can generally get larger/nicer houses in neighborhoods that are more attractive overall (more houses that have been improved, landscaped, etc., because people have the money for it) that have higher-ranked schools and are near higher-end retail. If you're not terribly familiar with the region when you buy and aren't digging too far into the underlying dynamics of the area, it's not hard to understand people making the decision to buy in NA rather than SA with a genuine ignorance of the segregation that exists. [/quote]

People who spend 750k on a 70 year old unrenovated home know exactly what they are getting: no poor people.[/quote]

But they didn’t necessarily seek to avoid low-income people. One of the first rules of buying real estate is not to be the nicest house on the block. So if you’re looking to buy that unrenovated house and improve it and you’re concerned about the value of your greatest asset, are you going to buy among a whole bunch of other unrenovated houses, or are you going to move into the neighborhood where the houses around you are being renovated (or torn down/rebuilt)?[/quote]

Wow, that got garbled by autocorrect. Fixed it.[/quote]

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