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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did the shift from capitalism to socialism happen? It's not just Arlington. [/quote]

We're not talking about socialism. 
Educating our children is part of the social contract. Making sure they grow up in stable homes with food on the table is better for everyone. 
But the streetcar got cancelled and all of the promised gentrification went down the tubes with it.
People are starting to look at this Pike neighborhood plan, and ask some important questions. Those neighborhood schools aren't doing so great. What happens if you add more poverty to them? They were supposedly going to be propped up by more middle class density. That hasn't materialized.
How are people living in these areas supposed to be well served if businesses won't invest in the area, because it's super poor?

North Arlington parents aren't divorced from this problem. They helped these policies along. It's time for them to pitch in. Time for them to be part of the solution.

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I think it's socialism to expect high-performing kids to be reassigned to shitty schools to prop the other kids up. And that's what's happening everywhere. The problem is that the smart kid has value (high test scores, involved parents), and you're crapping all over them. Public colleges offer incentives to attract motivated students: they get financial assistance or the promise of an outstanding education. With all these choice plans popping up, they get the pleasure of being assigned to a shitty, low-performing school. What's in it for them? Nothing. So they choose private or charters, and everybody loses. Republicans and democrats are both backing this model. Democrats like it for the perceived equity and republicans like it because it encourages the privatization of schools.

Sounds like Arlington is laying the groundwork for a full I controlled choice model. [/quote]

Arlington is the 8th wealthiest county in the United States and 70 percent Democrat. Why does it have ANY shitty public schools? Seriously. If a county this small AND this liberal AND this wealthy can't pull off an integrated school system, how is there any hope for public education?

We should just go the route of Mississippi and Louisiana, and go to two track educational system, where the white kids all go to "private academies" and the poor kids all go to crummy public schools that are minimally publicly funded. The net cost to all the wealthy people would be the same, the net educational outcomes to the wealthy people would be the same, and we could drop the fiction that we're living in some liberal utopia that actually cares about education. [/quote]

Yes, this is a lovely vision. But you take all the 10 and 2 schools and merge them to make 6 schools, then all of the sudden people think APS schools aren't so great anymore. So APS isn't the super desired close in spot anymore. Them 6 schools become 5 schools, etcetc. There's a reason socialism is great on paper but doesn't work great in practice. People will always seek out excellent schools for their kids. But by all means play into the republicans hands and help them privatize schools by supporting more and more choice schools and gutting neighborhood schools. [/quote]

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