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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]If the Arlington School Board proposed to sprinkle the poors equally between north and south, there would literally be a civil war in Arlington County. The families in North would claim they should not be forced to pay for the “poor” decisions of the families in the South. And the families in the South would claim that the families in the North should pay. In a capitalistic society where you have winners and poors, you will always have this dymamic- the wealthy want to stay away from the poors and the poors want to stay away from the other poors and latch onto the resources of the wealthy.  [/quote]

If there was equity, there would not be "poor" decisions. We all pay taxes, we're all entitled to equal education. [/quote]

Eliminate choice schools and you'll get it.[/quote]

Not at Randolph, Barcroft or Carlin Sprigs you won't. Simply not enough SFH and townhouses to ever balance out the apartments. Wouldn't even make dent.[/quote]

Don’t need to balance.  Just create tracks and the UMC kids will be just fine.[/quote]

I can't tell if you are being facetious, but I not ... guess you haven't heard. APS has a non tracking policy. Sorry, there's an obstacle at every turn. Sorry to have to shoot down your every suggestion.[/quote]

School board elections can change that.[/quote]

Only if north Arlington elects SB members that care. NA is 2/3 of Arlington, not half. Elected leaders simply don't need to pay attention to SA to win reelection and doing so risks alienating NA, where the most votes are.[/quote]

I don't see why NA parents wouldn't vote for SB members who advocate tracking between native English speakers and English learners.  That tracking would barely affect NA anyway.  The impact would be in SA.
To fix schools in SA, if NA parents had the choice between:

1) shipping their kid to Randolph to reduce the FARM %
2) letting SA schools do tracking

they would clearly choose #2 and have no problem voting for SB candidates who support it.
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They wouldn't because the school board is not actually about schools. It's the farm team for the county board hopefuls. To get on the county board you have to spout platitudes and pledge allegiance to affordable housing as the county's number 1 priority. Seriously. Catering to an UMC minority in south Arlington that is even the slightest bit skeptical of our housing policies would be treasonous. It isn't in the cards. SA simply doesn't have enough votes for anybody but john v to give a f about. Only when the consequences of the affordable housing policies seriously impact NA will anything change. And it's unlikely to happen.[/quote]

Looking around at my NA neighbors, I don't see many people who care one way or another about affordable housing.  On the other hand, I think showing these folks that certain SA neighborhood schools are totally unable to serve the needs of UMC SA kids unless tracking was introduced...I think that would be compelling.  Perhaps that is naïve on my part.[/quote]

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