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[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]

Well, it's also true that most of this country is segregated. Yay us! We're not better than anywhere! And thanks for your "generosity" by allowing us to live in the same county. So charming to be reminded to kiss the rings. Can you print a sign and put it in your front yard, just in case we forget? Something like, "All are welcome here. Well not actually [i]here[/i], but you get the idea."

[u]I still only see like one scenario that I'd expect people to get all riled up about. And I would like to know whether this option actually creates more bus riders or just [i]different[/i] bus riders. [/quote][/u]

Which one?  Are you referring to one of the 5 combined?  Or was it G demographics on the original slide deck from 9/12?  I live in n. Arlington, I am not a huge rah, rah, everything is secondary to diversity, but G seemed to be the "most equitable" in terms of distributing poverty as much as possible across all 6 schools.  OTOH, I did watch that shit show train wreck when Kaninen came in at the final hour and managed to get the least number of kids transferred to Yorktown.  (So they might have a trailer in the 4th year, but let's just ensure WL gets trailers for 3 of 4 years instead.  How is that fair, bi#ch?  Sorry, I digress.).  As I was saying, given how many shenanigans get pulled by the SB, I would very much doubt seeing that kind of distribution ever.

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It's one of the blended: scenario H, the Blended Demographics one. I am not surprised that this is not a popular option for the families currently zoned to Swanson, but I would still like to know whether more bus riders are created, or whether it's a shuffling of who is getting on a bus.

I don't really think any of the other scenarios rise to the charge of "busing." Will the kids getting on a bus change in some scenarios? Perhaps, but that's to be expected during a boundary change. The question is: would more students, overall, require transportation?

Now that I've had some time to think, I'd like to see what happens with some tweaks to option "B." Move some of the northern most planning units around Langston out of Kenmore over to Stratford, move Ashton Heights back into Jefferson, move Barcroft neighborhood back into Kenmore, and keep the new APAH units in Westover at Swanson, you know, for proximity, instead of busing them to Kenmore. What do these tweaks do to proximity, demographics, and capacity?

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