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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The option schools.[/quote]

You mean close the high performing schools that are full and super popular with waiting lists, while there are under enrolled elem schools that no one wants to go to (ahem Drew). lol, no. 
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The programs are super popular because middle class families don't want to send their children to the low-performing schools. Not everyone can access those programs and the busing is a drain on our resources. [/quote]

so again you really want to close the highest performing and most popular schools? we should be opening more of them, not less.

close the low performing neighborhood schools that no one wants to go to. [/quote]

AMAC has joined the conversation. The Mary Coup didn't work so now they'll go after the Title I schools. [/quote]

PP here. I don't even know what AMAC is (I assume montessori?), so I can assure you I'm not part of it. [/quote]

So then you’re like a clueless Northie who wants to keep your extra schools open? At the expense of a school like Drew?!??[/quote]

Explain why Drew has to stay open when it can't fill itself. Other than politics and optics. [/quote]

Because the SB is afraid to expand the Drew boundary.  [/quote]

It's not on Drew to "fill itself." The school board sets boundaries and the current boundares maintain segregation and inequities across the county. [/quote]

Oh puhlease [/quote]

The neighborhood surrounding Drew has been historically underinvested in for hundreds of years.  The whole county, not just the school board, needs to address this.[/quote]

First--"hundreds" of years? Arlington's not that old. Second, I've lived in this neighborhood for 25 years and that is not my experience since I've lived here--in that time they have added the sprayground, a huge new "town center," done the massive renovations at Jennie Dean Park, built the Walter Reed Community Center, and redone Nauck and Fort Barnard Parks. The problem is the despite a lot of changes in the mix of people living in the neighborhood, the county only listens to one demographic that focuses on a narrow set of issues. 
It's not surprising that many parents choose to go to other schools when decisions about the neighborhood school are hugely influenced by a group of 70- and 80-year olds whose lived experience is segregation and underinvestment. The kids who go to Drew include many whose parents rent, move frequently, and just enroll their kids in the in-boundary schools/have limited English proficiency.   
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Chronic underinvesting since the end of the civil war.  I'm not sure which demographic you are saying the county listens to, but I personally don't think updating a few things in recent years is going to magically make up for the long term underinvestment.  If you don't think the history of segregation and underinvestment are still factors, what do you see as the problems for Drew?  How would you solve them?   [/quote]

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