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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The community idea is so overblown by so many. The public school “community” is laughable for our family who came from private. I am sorry but no the public schools have neighbors who know each other but sense of community nope. So if your child is bussed to a different school the school your child attends will have a “community” and you become part of it if you want.

White parents just don’t want to have to say out loud that they don’t want their kids going to school with poor non white kids. [/quote]

This is not true at the "poor" school in S. Arlington where I live.  There are many immigrant communities (Ethiopians, Mongolians, etc) who are very tight, many living in the same apartment complexes.  They walk home together, care for each others' kids after school, go shopping and share food, etc.  There are a very few who are doing option schools but most don't want to move schools - they like their kids all going together to the same school and don't want to be split up.[/quote]

My central (technically North) neighborhood has a big sense of community. Parents and kids walk to school together in the morning and afternoon, car pool for sports, do service projects for scouting in our neighborhood parks, play after school together, see each other at the pool in the summer, etc. If I had to arrange and then drive my child to play dates, he wouldn’t have many play dates. Having a neighborhood school we can walk to is really nice. If I didn’t have that, I would move to somewhere that did or send my kids to private. 
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We're at an elementary school with very few buses and the kids walk everywhere.  Playdates after school.  Girl scout meetings.  Soccer and basketball practices and pick up games.  There's tons of community because we all are out and about together.  There's literally an ant line of kids and parents trapsing by my house every morning and afternoon.  It's a huge part of the school and neighborhood ethos.[/quote]

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