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So you want to tell the people in the Williamsburg island, who specifically asked to go to Stratford instead because in some cases kids would have had to walk further to their WB bus stop than to Stratford itself, that they can't have that, that they need to be bused to Williamsburg so that diversity will be better at Williamsburg. [/quote]

No, and I'm not sure where you're getting that. I know the MS ship has sailed, but it would have made a lot more sense (in terms of logistics and finances) to build a 1300 student MS on the Wilson Building site. But the whiny white folks in 22207 did their thing, and now there's another school in the white zone. I think we ought to be doing what's best for non-ED families. [b]I don't care if Williamsburg gets ever whiter[/b]; those families have made it clear that they don't value diversity, so why give them any?

But APS could be making choices that preserve the few ways[b] individual schools [/b]reflect the demographics of APS as a whole, and that doesn't happy because the privileged whine and APS rolls right the fuck over. [/quote]

This is exactly what APS chose not to do, move kids at some schools around to at least feel like the community was more diverse and balanced, while leaving alone the rich kids in the north.  They tried to apply the same criteria to every planning unit.  If you want diversity, then own it and bus everyone.  Bus the Columbia Forest kids to Stratford, the Williamsburg area kids to Kenmore, and the Westover kids to Gunston.  Now everyone's unhappy. But you don't let the richest and whitest off the hook while messing around with other families who also have their own desires not to be schlepped all over town to fix bad county policies.
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