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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't they just turn ATS into a neighborhood and get rid of all of the other option schools? We don't need them. [/quote]

Racial and economic segregation. People don't like to hear that, but it's the truth. The Montessori program began when African American students in Nauck were bussed to other elementaries under court ordered desegregation in the 1970s, leaving their neighborhood school, Drew, underpopulated. (An option to bus white children in to Drew was nixed.) Likewise, immersion at Key began in the 1980s to attract Anglo/mc/UMC to a school with a large population of recent immigrants. Today, a lot of parents choose option schools because they are economically and racially integrated. So, not to be dismissive of instructional models and their merits, but you can't talk about optic schools then or now without race and class looming large.[/quote]

I think this is true.  Arlington is still fairly segregated- the option schools are the least segregated.  Many North Arlington minority families choose option schools to avoid being the token minorities in their neighborhood schools.  Many South Arlington caucasian families choose option schools to avoid being their neighborhood schools.[/quote]

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