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[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]
That answers the question how?
Because you can't afford those neighborhoods means the diversity of choice schools in those neighborhoods is greater than the residential diversity?  [/quote]

Yup. Those are not diverse neighborhoods. A neighborhood with $750k fixer uppers is not diverse. Lyon Village is not diverse. Arlington Heights is not diverse. Bluemont is not diverse. They are SFH enclaves that are unaffordable to actual middle class families.[/quote]

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