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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. I don't care if Williamsburg gets ever whiter; 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 individual schools 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]

What are you talking about? Under revised Option A, Stratford will be an appropriately diverse school; by 2022, it's projected to have 21% ED, 24% EL and 46% non-white. If they'd put the middle school on the Wilson site instead, that would have shifted the richer/whiter PUs currently slated for Stratford back to WB while lumping the poorer/less-white Stratford PUs to the Wilson MS along with similar populations currently slated for Jefferson (and maybe a little slice of the less-affluent part of Swanson). Under that scenario, there's most likely a general clockwise shift in the boundaries (except for Gunston, which probably doesn't change much at all) that means WB doesn't get meaningfully more diverse, Swanson probably gets substantially less diverse, Kenmore might get a little relief, but you've effectively created a second Kenmore on the other side of the county, which isn't really an improvement overall. [/quote]

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