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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the Arlington School Board proposed to sprinkle the poors equally between north and south, there would literally be a civil war in Arlington County. The families in North would claim they should not be forced to pay for the “poor” decisions of the families in the South. And the families in the South would claim that the families in the North should pay. In a capitalistic society where you have winners and poors, you will always have this dymamic- the wealthy want to stay away from the poors and the poors want to stay away from the other poors and latch onto the resources of the wealthy.  [/quote]

If there was equity, there would not be "poor" decisions. We all pay taxes, we're all entitled to equal education. [/quote]

Eliminate choice schools and you'll get it.[/quote]
Dp- you will Get familes moving and going private. You need to do some math. That will clear your  crazy ideas up.[/quote]

Not the PP but I agree with eliminating choice schools and cutting off the escape valve of the UMC families who are going to continue to move/stay in S. Arl. for commuting and other reasons and will eventually help to even out demographics in ALL the South Arlington schools. Or, they'll move and then developers won't be able to flip houses and split lots to sell more 5+ bedroom faux craftsman style houses for $800k, and/or eventually all the schools will be 100% FARMS from the continued proliferation of CAFs and will start losing accreditation, and then it will be the County Board's problem and maybe they'll have to do something about it.

Because currently all we do is pat ourselves on the back that ATS has 20% low income students and talk about how to make sure low-income South Arlington parents are "informed" and "empowered" to seek out and apply for the choice schools, while we ignore the 80% Randolphs and the Drews with their persistently lower test scores for minority students even though those are the schools that every student who can't hit the choice lottery has to attend. We can't rezone our way out of it. It is impossible with the realities of housing and the opposition to busing, not to mention the budget for busing.

My family is zoned for Drew. We choice out. But, and you can choose to believe this or not, we would send our kids to either the new Drew or the old Drew before we would move or go private for elementary. [/quote]

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