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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS has nothing to do with housing. You don't like the huge FARMS rates at certain schools? Go advocate to the County Board that you want to see affordable housing around Jamestown and Tuckahoe.

Alternatively, go advocate in front of APS that you want forced busing to equalize FARMS rates across schools.

People love to complain about this issue, but they're unwilling to actually do anything about it.

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Yup, and then try to convince the brown FARMS families at Randolph that they will be better off bused to Jamestown. They don't want to leave their neighborhood either.

[b]The people who complain about high FARMS rates are the white UMC families in those schools in SA[/b]. They moved to those zip codes to get a bigger house for less $, but then once there they do not want their white UMC kids in a school with lots of brown kids and high FARMS. You don't usually hear the FARMS families complaining. [/quote]

Of course - what reason do you white folks in extreme low poverty schools have to complain?
However, you are mistaken about the housing purchases. South Arlington has a much fuller range of incomes than the far north of Arlington. It isn't FRL or 1%ers. It's heavy in the middle. So not everyone who isn't FRL in south Arlington could afford a house in north Arlington. There are other reasons to buy a house in south Arlington, too.

As to the PP's comment about "brown FARMS" from Randolph not wanting to bus to Jamestown.....you are a stunning example as to why the conversations about increasing diversity across the system never goes anywhere. That isn't the only solution. Try being at least a little creative.[/quote]

I would love to hear creative solutions but as to the bussing, I am literally just repeating the preferences that I have heard from low-income families of color in S. Arlington. [/quote]

Same here, I live in S. Arlington and parents I talk to like it here even if they are "low income" and their kids don't have as many PTA-funded activities or fancy equipment.  For many immigrants, it's still far better than what they left behind.  It's very convenient to be able to walk to school.  My neighborhood is filled with walking trains of kids walking together to school every day.  They stop and spontaneously play in the grass on the way, some are watching siblings after school, they go to each others' apartments to hang out after school, etc.  It is a nice life and I don't blame them for not wanting to give that up to bus their kids to Jamestown.[/quote]

Agreed. I enjoyed the middle school years when our kids could just walk, and we could just walk for events. 
However, if that weren't the system we had here, we would have managed with whatever school they went to.  Transition is the hardest. Once a system has been around, people know that's how it works and it becomes less an obstacle because it's no longer about that fear of change.[/quote]

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