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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP who mentioned disciple problems at kenmore. My source(s). Several parents (both n and s arlington families) with at least one kids there now. 2 teachers and one person who works in the front office.

The new facility is nice, but research shows thst just throwing money at the problem doesn't solve it when it comes to education. It's demographics baby, and we've known it since the 70s. Both the school board and the county have for the most part engineered arlington demographics exactly how the experts say not to do it.

If this continues, parts of s arlington (and not all parts) are going to have [b]even more white flight[/b][/quote]

I think you mean more middle class/professional class flight. The way you have it makes white people sound flighty, and I don't know if that's what you mean. Other there are middle class professionals from other ethnic groups that might care just as much. People forget that white flight was also accompanied by middle class minority flight too.[/quote]

I agree with the above. Funny, I had almost written about white flight earlier as well but rethought it for the very same reasons you stated. This is an SES issue. That is still a very unpopular and unattractive thing to speak openly about. Seems the thinking was that any middle class persons who moved south of 50 must 100 % support whatever the county throws our way. Many of us have been ok with it until now. Many of us had seen our local schools slowly improving, and felt good about sending or children there, until now. Columbia Pike was supposedly getting some needed transportation upgrades, and we felt pretty good about the direction things were going. It's unreal how drastically things have changed in a year. Certainly the Pike is gentrifying, but now it appears to lack any real vision.[/quote]

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