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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is seriously 83 pages of crazy.  The Arlington that you see on dcum really doesn't match anything I encounter in daily life.

There is nothing wrong with saying one school has better test scores than another.  There is nothing wrong with expressing disappointment that your house will be zoned for a different school, especially if you based your decision to buy or not on your perception of the school pyramid associated with a neighborhood.  Stop assuming it's based off of race.  [/quote]

... and people would be disappointed to be rezoned to Wakefield... because it’s the nicest new facility? Because they have a fanatastic basketball team? Because they have had several recipients of Teacher of the year on faculty? 
No
Because there are too many poor Brown kids. 
Yikes. How awful.[/quote]
Because the test scores for Wakefield are lower.  You're inferring it's because of race.  On paper based off of only great schools ratings and test scores, it's not as good a school.  Fix the achievement gap and I think a lot of this goes away.[/quote]

Ok so APS is the problem,  not the kids. That’s what you’re saying? Wakefield has worse teachers and poor curriculum? Is that the problem? All the middle class families are desperately squeezing themselves north of 50 because Wakefield has crappy teachers and not the same courses. That’s it? Right?[/quote]
My kids are in early elementary and younger.  I was even more naive when I bought my house and my eldest was an abstract idea not yet born.  I did not look at demographics at ALL, I looked solely at test scores and sat scores and rating on various websites.  By those three data points, Wakefield was low performing and w-l was a little better, andyorktownwas the best.  Yorktown is decidedly not walkable, so we moved to w-l zoned neighborhood.   I'm brown, so that was not a consideration.  And I'm much poorer as a single mom than a lot of people here though my kids don't get free lunch.  
So no racism in that decision, and no trying to avoid poor people.  I doubt I'm the only one who approached it this way.
If you make all three schools comparable as far as test scores go so objectively there isn't much difference (as opposed to the 300 point difference on sat scores referenced on the other thread), this gets considerably less contentious.  [/quote]

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