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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He named his link to the data "[his name] is probably wrong." I took it as a conversation starter, and it did seem to start a conversation. 
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Is he responding to comments?[/quote]

No, which I find so annoying. If he’s going to be posting this stuff then he should at least explain and defend his view. I don’t understand that other person who keeps posting and defending him and trying to say “what I think he means is xyz…”

I chose an option school to avoid my neighborhood school and it’s not because I’m racist. I’m not white. It’s because my neighborhood score has low academic standards, behavioral issues, etc. If my neighborhood school had the same demographics but had a curriculum and expectations more like ATS I would not have left! [/quote]

Back when we had to make this decision a decade ago our “neighborhood school” wasn’t being used by any of our neighbors, so there was no reason for us to consider it. We would have had to walk our kid to school (not something we wanted to do daily, taking 20 mins out of each morning before a commute), and kid wouldn’t have known anyone. Also, it was overcrowded and had abysmal scores. Literally nothing could’ve compelled us to send DC there. If there hadn’t been a public alternative we would’ve moved or gone private like the families who didn’t get into an option school by lottery.

Nobody wants their kid to be a lonely only, to have a birthday party nobody shows up to, to be teased for being “rich” or white, all things we had heard happened to the one family who did use the neighborhood school (a couple years ahead of us). They eventually moved to the Tuckahoe zone. Let’s talk about that. Okay? [/quote]

And this cuts both ways. People of color often don't want their kid to be the only person of color in a class, and North Arlington schools are so segregated that this is discouraging for people who might otherwise want to live there and can afford it.  Segregation is bad for everyone.  So sick of people who act like Arlington can't or shouldn't do better, or that everyone would flee to private if the elementary schools were integrated. Some might, most would not.  And why would we pander to people who won't attend an integrated school???[/quote]

The problem is that the open seats we have are mostly in North Arlington schools.  Except for options. we're not going to bus brown and blacks kids to North Arlington.  Except for options, we're not going to bus white kids to our overcrowded South Arlington schools. New boundaries will not move more racially or economically diverse kids into our most lily-white schools. [b]The County is pushing more housing onto Langston Boulevard and that will help[/b] but it will take years before we see a real change. [/quote]

Not really. Not until Langston Blvd has the concentration of CAFs that Columbia Pike/Arlington Mill neighborhood have. And that will be .... never.[/quote]

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