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Oh boohoo. Buck up. You're a white collar professional in a high income household in one of the wealthiest counties in america. You don't get points because your wife works or you sit in traffic. And I could give a f about whether you're a republican. It's frankly preferable to these faux liberals.  Stop denying the racial and class dimensions of your preferences. It fools no one. It is racist.[/quote]

Ooooook. So what is your realistic master plan to fix segregation in APS? Or are you just yelling at clouds? You can't change where people live, where the school buildings are located, or the overall budget. We're all ears.  [/quote]

1. Drop walkability as the top priority. Yes, we do have the money for buses. We're building a $100m pool that will require annual subsidies and maintenance costs in excess of $1m.

2. Move option schools to high poverty areas where the poor students who would benefit most from exposure to MC habits and peers and strong PTA would most easily access them. this is non coercive; it's a choice to attend such schools and people will go the extra mile if they see the value of the program.

3. Have an honest conversation about the follow on costs of building high density AH in a limited area. Increase funding for area infrastructure, including roads and schools. Try driving on he western pike this weekend. The road is in terrible condition from constant construction, far worse than any other stretch in the entire county. I don't care if the state has jurisdiction, it needs repairs.

4. Set a modest goal that no school will have a farms rate above 50 percent. If it's 3% like Tuckahoe, fine. But no more of the 85% bullsh1t.

5. don't bother trying to bus kids across the county. Make regional clusters and draw from there to create balanced schools. By the end of the bussing era, kids in Nauck were only being bused to Abingdon, Randolph, and Barcroft. None of those schools is more than a 10 minute drive from the next, even in rush hour.[/quote]

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