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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]

School policy is housing policy. If you want SA school demographics to be more balanced, your have to play a long game and focus on housing, not boundaries. Good luck — affordable housing is a sacred cow here and fully integrated into the county’s business. There are just tons and tons of people whose jobs are related to the current system. The only solution is to stop building CAFs in South Arlington and start building as many townhomes as possible instead. Unfortunately, the county knows this full well and in the past has pursued anti-townhome development policies because they are seen as “a threat” to affordable housing. That’s the language of county staff, not mine.

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][/quote]

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