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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow do you assume fARM a kids want to be bussed around and not attend their neighborhood schools. The easier way to fix the disparity between north and south Arlington school is to kill the option schools (other than immersion). It’s a brain/resources drain on the south arl schools. But, ironically, super woke Arlington loves school choice. In the meantime, the school board and other woke parents will push fake equity shit instead of doing the one thing that would make the biggest difference. [/quote]

Have you ever taken a look at what the stats would be with no option schools?
It wouldn't make a dent in the FRL% at Carlin Springs or Randolph or even significantly at Barcroft.  Carlin Springs and Randolph are not the schools with a lot of people fleeing to option programs.

Secondly, whether poor people want to be bused farther away or whether rich people want to be bussed farther away or whether rich people who purposely moved away from the poor people want to have more poor kids in school with their kids is IRRELEVANT.  School leaders should be doing whatever they need to do to provide the best education for all of its students.  Decades of research has demonstrated that economically diverse classrooms are better.

Rather than eliminating option schools, APS should do the opposite - and the only way to fix the issue:  countywide ranked-choice admissions to all schools based on a formula that at least strives to narrow the disparities to reasonably acceptable levels.  Why is this the most equitable solution?

1.  People can't buy their school anymore and can't whine when they get redistricted to a different school.
2.  It eliminates all boundary change processes and all the angst and time and resources and outrage and heartache and everything else that comes along with it.
3.  EVERYONE has to rank their top 3 or 4 schools and EVERYONE has comparable chances of not getting their most preferred.
3.  In districts that follow this system, the majority of people get their top choice school and the vast majority get either their first or second choice.
4.  The admissions formula can be designed for balance between genders as well as economic means, walkability/proximity, and maintaining balanced enrollment across schools (which also prevents imbalanced overcrowding and the need for regular boundary adjustments....see #2 above.)
5.  Resources are more evenly distributed and ALL students have more comparable opportunities and experiences and school performance is far more consistent across the entire district.
6.  Throwing a bone to those who still have to feel they are superior:  you don't have to bring poor people into rich neighborhoods or vice versa; so people can still have their exclusive residential enclaves and special neighborhood names they can cite when people ask where they live.[/quote]

That’s a nice idea, but it won’t be happening. It’s impossible to accomplish what you would consider reasonably acceptable balance without moving a large number of kids from the far north to far south and vice-versa. Anyone who can understand maps and math knows this. It’s a nonstarter in Arlington. [/quote]

I don't even think it's a "nice idea" - it's a terrible idea!  So glad it is also impossible and never gonna happen.

OP, Arlington education newbie - does this thread answer your question?[/quote]

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