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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ you are very right. This needs to be talked about. Arlington has plenty to be ashamed about. [/quote]

Why isn't the same venom directed at Alexandria.  ACPS has a far more blatant track record of segregating their students and the current process to change boundaries has exposed the total hypocrisy of many of the progressive/liberals who are "living out their ideals" and patting themselves on the back for sticking it out in a poorer performing school district.  No one wants to go to J-H and many families are fighting to protect their administrative transfers, which are doled out in a process that is completely not transparent and clearly favors only rich, white people.

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Probably because we're only familiar with the problems in Arlington. If I lived in Alexandria, I am certain I would have the same disdain for ACPS.

This isn't a problem unique to Arlington, or Alexandria. This is a national problem, and one that needs to be addressed. But I'm trying to address it in the place that I live, because I don't think this is something that can be addressed at the national level. Arlington is geographically small, and wealthy, and we could begin to tackle this issue if we wanted. And it's disappointing to me that we don't want to, especially considering how "liberal" we're supposed to be. Honestly, the Arlington County Democratic Committee is running a primary challenger against a Quaker bicyclist grandmother on the county board because they don't think she's liberal enough. And yet, NOBODY is talking about segregation, and the current "liberal" policies are actually reinforcing segregation in our communities and our schools.

To the PP's who just want to be able to send their children where they want to, I get it. I was in your place for a long time. And I, too, love my children and want the best for them. It's just that my idea of what's best for them has changed. Growing up in a segregated community and being educated in a segregated school is not best, not for my kids, not for any kids.

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Kind of but not quite. We already have the segregated schools. I do want diversity, but sending my white, middle class, English speaking child, into a school where they may very well  be the only middle class white child in their class- that's not exposing them to diversity. That's sacrificing your kid at the alter of liberalism. If every parent in my neighborhood stopped using the choice schools, I don't know that it would be enough to balance the scales. AHC, VOICE, mi Voce CUENTA ( which is essentially VOICE) . They've worked tirelessly and dilligently to bring this about, for years. The families that have bought in south Arlington in the last 5-10 years are way behind, and they are busy. In most cases both parents work and they don't have time to get involved. For many buying in south Arlington was a huge investment alone. They don't have time for the county's "process".
It's become an echo chamber, so much so that when a group formed to voice a differing opinion to the AHMP, they were called tea partiers and racists. All were democrats.
You own a home in south Arlington?
You pay taxes?

Your voice doesn't count.[/quote]

The irony is VOICE et al are against busing to achieve diversity. This is completely opposite from Loudon County and Montogomery where neighborhoods complain about the lack of busing to more affluent schools, or are upset over ending busing. [/quote]

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