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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The FARMS disparities are a housing issue. Solve that and the schools will fall in line. We need to stop trying to make the school board fix this. We need more affordable housing in the North part of the county and I say this as someone with a kid at Tuckahoe. I would welcome more diverse SES in my community and have written the county board to this effect.

And before you claim I moved here to avoid minorities or whatever, we are here because commute purposes. One of us needs the orange line and the other needs 66 to go west. We house hunted from Ballston to the Beltway. There is no way the south part of the county would make sense for us logistically.[/quote]

Thank you for your philosophical support and letter to the CB.

I agree it's a housing issue; but that doesn't mean the school system can't take measures to mitigate the impacts of county housing policies and practices.  It's more than a matter of putting more committed affordable housing in the north - that, in and of itself, does nothing to reduce the existing concentrations of poverty elsewhere that result in the high FRM schools.

BTW, the orange line is easily accessible from South Arlington homes. Many homes in SA can easily get to Ballston or Rosslyn.  Of course one could also take the blue/yellow line from SA and transfer to orange. Is one train transfer too inconvenient?  Or, take a 5-10 minute bus ride down the Pike to the Pentagon and take blue/yellow to the orange --- which is definitely more inconvenient (but doable) and you were able to afford and find a more direct option in NA. 66 is also very easy to access particularly from the SA neighborhoods along the west end of the Pike. I do it all the time in less than 10 minutes, usually 7 max, and can do so from two different major roads.

I hope neither of your job change so you have to move to be accessible to 395 or the blue line.[/quote]

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