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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is completely inequitable to move ATS to far NW Arlington. It needs to be central. There’s only one. If you move it to the wealthiest enclaves then those will be the only families who can make the trek across the county. You will lose all/most lower income families. I sure hope APS is not that clueless.  [/quote]

Good. Move it and make it look like the inadequate enclave within a segregated school system that it is. And, make it an even more inconvenient escape valve for UMC South Arlington parents. Option schools are a complete sop to those latter parents designed only to quiet down what would otherwise be loud and widespread outrage over the egregious economic segregation in Arlington schools. [/quote]

What you say is not entirely off base but at the same time, it’s also true that the option schools are the most diverse and integrated schools in the system. It cuts both ways. Getting rid of them would not help the cause of racial and economic integration in APS. Quite the opposite. [/quote]

Are they really more diverse and integrated than the neighborhoods in which they sit, though?[/quote]

Pretty much. I’m UMC and can not afford to buy a home in the neighborhoods surrounding Henry, Key, ATS, or Claremont. [/quote]
Don’t know about the neighborhood around claremont, but key/ats/Henry have mostly apartments near them.  Asfs is over 80% people living in apartments.  You can afford to rent an apartment there I bet.[/quote]

No, they don’t have mostly apartments near them. I’m 40, I work and so does my spouse. We have two kids. I live in a two bedroom semi detached. The rent for a two bedroom apartment exceeds my mortgage payment. Can I afford it? Yeah. But why would I? Btw, Take away river place and ASfS has few apartments and no Asians.[/quote]

That’s not true. You can look at the affordable units in Rosslyn and Courthouse to start https://housing.arlingtonva.us/get-help/rental-services/affordable-units/

There are also still some run down market rate apartments and tons of condos. You can cross reference the planning units stats from the Fleet zoning cycle. Key is not more diverse than the neighborhood.[/quote]

Key is 40 percent FRL and the houses around it go for 1 million. A one bedroom in Colonial village across the street is $300k. The surrounding neighborhoods are mostly definitely less diverse than Key, which gets its racial and SES diversity from apartment dwellers outside of or at the very fringes of its zone, in Buckingham (because it is an option school) and to a lesser extent, older buildings in Radnor heights that would conceivably be in a zone we’re it a neighborhood school.. If one were to only look at family sized apartments and condos and SsFH it would be even clearer that option schools are more diverse than their walkzone or immediate surroundings.

The simplest way to demonstrate that option schools contribute to integration is to  You could just look at frl rates. The overall county rate is about 30 percent. The option schools are all within 10 points of that, usually less. Only Henry and long branch are within ten points of the county average. Henry’s, now fleet, that frl rate has dropped more than 40 points in 15 years. The truth is that as we build more Elemntary schools, each zone gets smaller and more reflective of neighborhood segregation dating to the early and mid 20th century. People love to tag on options and they aren’t faultless but without them, we’d have almost no integration at all. Just think what would happen with a neighborhood HS at the CC. It’d split an integrated, verging on poor, Wakefield high into a rich school and a poor school.[/quote]

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