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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a suburb with the wealth of Arlington, its schools really aren't that great. Arlington is in the top 10 richest in the county (and of course North Arlington is even crazier in terms of wealth), and yet its schools barely register in any national rankings. Even in statewide rankings, its schools are pretty mediocre.[/quote]

They don’t have enough land to built more schools. The high schools especially are over capacity. That makes schools like Yorktown to have to pull kids from the non wealthy parts of the county. [/quote]

Yeah, with all of its schools, Fairfax has managed to keep its poor students isolated in certain schools. The hypocrisy of blue Fairfax is off the charts.[/quote]

And so your solution is to do what, exactly?  Busing?  Do tell.  Be specific.  
DP[/quote]

To be fair, we are already busing but in reverse. Look at Woodson, Fairfax, Oakton, Langley, and Marshall boundaries. You can't say with a straight face that Woodson neighborhoods on the west side of the Fairfax County Parkway and neighborhoods adjacent to 495 belong at the same school. People love to claim that major roads are "natural boundaries" that separate communities but they only use that excuse when it benefits them from being moved to a low-SES pyramid.[/quote]

The Woodson boundaries look weird because by law all of nearby Fairfax City is zoned to Fairfax HS, and the Oakton boundaries are weird because of the concentration of four high schools (Madison, Oakton, Fairfax, Woodson) near Oakton.

Langley is a different situation, with obvious economic segregation courtesy of local politicians.  The situations are NOT the same. [/quote]

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