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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand this thread.  My daughter was zoned for a North Arlington school, and we lotteried into Campbell, which is far more diverse and a Title I school.  Many of her friends at Campbell were zoned for diverse South Arlington schools, but they lotteried from one diverse, high FARMS school into a different diverse, high FARMS school.[/quote]

You're not the "problem." The problem is that families in South Arlington have "liberal or progressive values" and yet they all are clamoring to escape their neighborhood schools. These same people think charter schools and school choice/vouchers are TERRIBLE yet they functionally are taking advantage of those programs. It causes a brain drain in those neighborhood schools. The best indicator future success is your peer group. Every family in SA that cares about education is moving out. It has nothing to do with race or class as many rightly pointed out that the option schools are very diverse both racially and economically (based on FRL status). [/quote]

Disagree that the problem is SA families. NA families do the same thing but with money instead of choice.  Everyone in Arlington is a liberal except when it comes to schools.  [/quote]

Exactly, such BS that the problem is SA families when housing prices in NA are hundreds of thousands of dollars more for very similar houses (in lots of cases). They are published in the paper and Arlington Magazine every month, we can all see that people are paying huge premiums for odd zip codes so they can go to the neighborhood school.

People will say "oh we're closer to 66" but come on, that's not everyone. And if you're going into the city the blue and yellow lines are in south Arlington, just as the orange line is jn north Arlington, but there is no "metro proximity" bonus because of the school performance and HS choice. [/quote]

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