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So redlining, and its effects today, isn’t racism? But talking about it is? Like “reverse racism”? Okay then.

^^^ This right here is how we got the nutters screaming about CRT in schools. They don’t want to examine the hideous underbelly of how we got where we are. [/quote]

DP, the current housing situations are most definitely the result of redlining and racism in the past.  The fact that many parents of all races and SES levels don't want to bus their elementary and middle school kids all over the county is not by default racism as much as you want it to be. [/quote]

Yes, also DP here in S. Arlington at a "poor school."  I don't know how many times it needs to be said: People do not want to move schools!  Our school may have high FRL but the teachers are great and families are having a good experience.  Maybe not as fancy an experience.  But no one I know wants to be bused 30 min. away to go to school.  They just don't!

Agree that it's better to [b]work on future planning and projects of AH.[/b][/quote]

That's all well and good; but does absolutely nothing to break up the concentrated poverty Arlington has already entrenched in specific neighborhoods and areas of the County.  It doesn't solve the problem.[/quote]

Okay, but it could help keep the problem from getting worse...?

Maybe we need a reframing of the "problem."  I posted above that people are quite happy with our Title 1 "poor" school and they don't want to move.  The immigrant communities may be lower-income and still learning English, but the kids are smart and hardworking.  Thriving, in fact.  The school is helping them grow and they will continue to improve as time goes on.  Test scores do not tell the full story of what is a "good" school.[/quote]

OK, then there is no problem.  So why do we focus on an achievement gap if there is no issue?[/quote]

There is not a problem that will be solved by lottery/busing everyone all over the county to new schools.  That idea is ludicrous.  The answer is helping kids who need it in their current schools and communities - more teachers, more assistants, more resources and community support that will meet them where they are and bring them up.  [/quote]

You clearly have not read the decades of social science research showing that disadvantaged students in economically diverse schools perform better, achieve better, close the gaps more quickly than disadvantaged students concentrated in low-income schools with more teachers, more assistants, smaller class sizes, more resources, and more community support meeting them where they are.  Everyone wants to ignore or deny the impacts of peer influences and connections - which is rather ironic, since it's the affluent people who avoid low-income schools because of the peer influences and lack of resources...[/quote]

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