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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did the livestream capture the "Keep Henry Together" t-shirts? 
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The takeaway from these materials is that Columbia Forest didn't see it coming until it was too late, and that a mass of white parents wearing matching tshirts gets what they want from APS every time.[/quote]

While I tend to agree and know it can be hard to change these maps once a true proposal is out, this map exposes APS on the “loud well off white people” get what they want criticism. Some of the decisions imbedded are going to be hard to justify.

And for anyone looking at the Drew boundary, do some research. On other occasions, APS has said that across the park situation didn’t create contiguous planning units. [/quote]

??? Who are you talking about?

I really, really wish they hadn’t built Fleet and forced Henry to move.  They should have just built another elementary in crystal city.  Between this and the career center, it has been a planning disaster and tearing our community apart. [/quote]

Huh? Fleet/Henry just got exactly what they wanted: a brand new school, with a lower farms rate and no one rezoned. Next up they'll have their own low farms high school.[/quote]

Nope. Henry wanted to stay at Henry and build on. We were told it couldn’t be done (and this was before Reed), and that if we moved Nauck would finally get it’s own elementary that they were denied in the past.  [/quote]

Lol, so you are upset that you don't get to stay in an old ugly building, and have to move, student body entirely intact, to a brand new school building? Please spare me this bs. [/quote]p

Or is that you feel guilty about acting out of self interest, and your part in creating a school that is over 80% poor at Drew? I could see how that might bother you. You chose your side though.[/quote]

No, I’m not upset.  Just trying to say that it’s too bad that now south Arlington is fighting each other when we should be a solid front. Honestly though, I now get how north Arlington gets tired of us.  I guess it’s all relative.[/quote]

And I'm saying don't expect any solidarity from Drew when you print matching tshirts to avoid being rezoned to Drew. [/quote]

Gotcha. FWIW, I’m 3 blocks from Fleet, so rezoning wouldn’t have personally affected me. Just supporting keeping my community together when we feel that that was promised to us.  Although I see how your view that differently.  [/quote]

Everyone knows that the parents and homeowners in the PUs south of the pike zoned to Henry were scared and angry about the possibility of going to Drew because of its demographics. "Keep Henry together" is just messaging because the truth is unpalatable and embarassing. Other schools are going to lose a chunk of students that have been going there for years, why should Henry be different?[/quote]

I don't disagree at all that nobody wanted to be sent to Drew.  Nevertheless, why can't you believe that current Henry people simply wanted to stay with their school because -- like all you northern folks -- they really love their school.  It's a high-performing school and a diverse community in an active civic association.  And why aren't you harassing the Oakridge people?  You don't think they've been fighting tooth and nail not to go to Drew (or to Hoffman Boston, though that is more palatable to them - and look where they're going:  Hoffman Boston).

BTW, Hoffman Boston is only going to be 98% capacity - so what's in the next round for them?[/quote]

No one is "harassing" anyone. Oakridge was a nonentity with regard to Drew. The schools and their walk zones are separated by an 8 lane freeway. Of course you want to stay at Henry. Henry's zone has shed most of its affordable housing over the last 10 years and in the process has achieved a concentration of wealth that has produced a strong well resources pta, and home values beginning to approach 1 million in Arlington heights. Your school used to be 65% farms. Today, your school having an abundance of those resources really does mean other south Arlington schools lose out. It is a zero sum game and you really screwed everyone else with your self interested lobbying. Especially Columbia Forest. You pulled he ladder up behind you, plain and simple.[/quote]

I'm not at Henry.  Never was at Henry.  Never will be at Henry.  8 lane highway?  You've heard of buses, right?  And those buses don't even have to cross 395 - they can drive right under it.  And don't tell me families in Arlington Ridge can't get to Drew because they don't have transportation.
So stop assuming you know who I am and who you're responding to.  
I don't believe Columbia Forest should be sent to Drew.  People on this forum have cited the "tearing apart" of the Henry community by moving a few PUs to Drew, and how they get to stay in tact.  Well that just means somebody else's community gets "torn apart" instead.  Get over it, people.  Kids pass through schools and are part of the community no matter which school they're in. 
I also can't believe nobody is bashing Oakridge parents who have had their strong advocacy efforts going on behind the scenes this whole time.  I'd like to know that they were advocating to retain the diversity they have left and going to Hoffman Boston instead of Drew - rather than what everyone else is doing and advocating not to go to Drew.  Oakridge knows people have to be moved - so they probably opted for a less undesirable scenario....like their kids getting bussed under 395.[/quote]

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