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Or, you know, it was really outside of the scope of this boundary adjustment and the fuller discussion will happen when there's a fourth high school.[/quote]

Right, because the populations can shift suddenly and dramatically so there's no point in worrying about FRL stats at all right now, but we can absolutely count on fixing the problem that is not a problem at some point in the future, based on projections and plans based on nothing, and we can be confident because everything has gone so well up 'til now. [/quote]

Except, this demand for busing is a minority viewpoint in the county (no pun intended). There's not exactly a groundswell of support for it. And, again, this was a boundary ADJUSTMENT, not a comprehensive redo.[/quote]

Where is this "demand for busing?" You know the historically black neighborhood that is referenced is bused to W-L, a trip of approximately 3.3 miles. Now they will be bused to Wakefield, which is 3.1 miles away. Do you have a map of Arlington? There is NO HS SCHOOL IN ARLINGTON THAT STUDENTS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD CAN WALK TO. These students will be riding a bus to any of the three comprehensive HS. And Arlington Forest, in North Arlington, is 2.6 miles to W-L and 2.8 to Wakefield. Majority of those students were bus riders either way, despite their rhetoric, so it wouldn't have been absurd for the SB to shift them to Wakefield. This is not "mandatory busing." We're a small county, with many major roads. Buses will always have to be part of the equation, unless the SB suddenly finds the money and land to build many, many more schools. [/quote]

I don't know if you are being deliberately obtuse, but presumably PP's reference to busing was to the additional busing and longer bus trips that would be required if the reshuffling demanded by a minority to produce schools with near-identical demographics were implemented. It is not simply about Option 2 instead of Option 4, which by itself does not change the SES profiles at any of the three high schools very much.[/quote]

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