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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm am very suspicious of the projected APS seat deficit numbers. Especially in south Arlington. The county wants to hold fast to an antiquated trend of the most students being produced from Sfh's. The recent trends are from multi family dwellings, and I don't think that's an outlier. They have also been very loud and proud about trying to encourage 3-4 bedroom units. They supposedly want families...
This entire situation is infuriating. They had these projections 10 years ago. They just decided to ignore them.
Past county board members have had the audacity to say things like, "'well, we'll just have to stay crowded a little longer " when they couldn't be bothered to make a decision and actually do their jobs. I swear if I hear one of them say " victims of our own success " one. More. Time. 
No. We're not. We're the beneficiaries of a great location. Quit smugly congratulating yourselves over what? Realizing we needed an underground subway? Well, no shit...
So north Arlington is busting at the seams and taking up all of the air in the room. We can't even have a real conversation about the completely fucked up demographics, because north Arlington is a total shit show. 
Meanwhile, " liberal" and " progressive" Arlington is completely dropping the ball with the schools in the south. 
Middle class south Arlington families have got to start sending their kids to the neighborhood schools, especially the "bad"'ones. It should be a priority of the SB and CB to help that along. They've done nothing but make it worse. 10-20 % of farms kids need to be choicing out of those schools. Get them out and put immersion into the randolf, Barcroft, and Carlin Springs. Knock on doors in nauck or wherever and talk to pre k parents about the local school. Allay their fears. It's what Michelle Rhee did. Their kids get immersion. The immigrant kids get better ( more reflective ) test scores - neighborhood schools south of 50 start getting better ratings. More middle class families stay, demographics improve and you start to see real diversity in those schools.

WHERE IS A SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE THAT WILL EVEN TALK ABOUT THIS?

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But middle class families in south Arlington shouldn't be the ones with responsibility for helping improve the schools. I live in south Arlington and it is frustrating to have a very small number of involved parents at our school a) stuck with all the work and b) still feel like it's not enough, yet see that PTAs in north Arlington have budgets 5x the size of ours and the support to pull off all kinds of events (tuckahoe garden tour, anyone?) And its unreasonable to ask someone to give up the opportunity to go to a diverse choice program to stick with a neighborhood school that is 70 or 80 percent Spanish speaking and poverty--everyone in that school is entitled to try and choice out.

Why can't the solution be to redraw boundaries or make more schools choice schools do there is a more even mix of families in each school? [/quote]

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