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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the concentration of poverty is as dire as you guys make it seem, then you need to start looking for really more creative solutions.  Would having upper and lower schools make a difference?  I honestly don’t know the area well enough, but could you combine the boundary with another school adjacent so that combined the farms rate gets closer to 40%?  
40% is the farms rate for around key (which is where I live), and I personally don’t feel we have a lot of the issues you describe.  Either that or I’m too busy to notice them.[/quote]

The farms rate "around key" is nowhere close to 40%. Keys farms rate is 40% because of Spanish speaking immersion students from buckingham. Redrawing boundaries to alleviate segregation is a non starter because north Arlington is only liberal about abstract issues in national politics. [/quote]
Hate to break it to you but the area around key is 40% farms.  It’s in the location review.  There is Lyon village, but most of the key zone is apartments with significant amounts of affordable housing.  Why do you think people kept bringing up racism when the administration was so adamant about zoning out large chunks of the school— the people being zoned out are all the affordable housing.

The upper and lower elementary is something you guys should seriously consider.  You draw a larger boundary and have k-2 at one campus and 3-5 at the other.  The larger boundary allows for the poverty to be distributed across two schools.   You can have a shared ext day and common bus routes so you minimize the logistical hit.  It’s a way to avoid significant busing.[/quote]

The upper and lower idea is interesting, but it wouldn't work because Randolph, carlin spring and Barcroft are 75, 80 and 60 percent poor and have adjacent boundaries. South Arlington elementary students as a whole are 50 percent poor and that end of the pike is where most of them are. West of Glebe its probably over 70 percent of kids are poor. the cb is bent on creating a ghetto there[/quote]

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