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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Busing and teams will just subject some kids to long bus rides, and then you will have a white flight situation like ACPS.

This is a joke, right? Arlington is the smallest county in America. There is no such thing as a long bus ride in Arlington.

[b]Actually there is one route that takes from 1:06-1:20[/b] for drew elementary this year. That’s the longest route.[/quote]

Thanks for proving my point!  :) 
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That is an idiotically long ride for ES kids.  Why put a kid on a bus at 7:30 when they don't need to be there until 8:50?  On the flip side, they aren't getting home until close to 5!  Ridiculous.[/quote]

I’m not sure anyone actually rides it. Any route that long to Drew would be a Montessori student, and would have to live near Chain Bridge. My guess is such student doesn’t actually exist.[/quote]

Yep, must be Montessori and if that ride exists, [b]it was your CHOICE to have your child in Montessori and thus not on a much shorter bus ride to your neighborhood school. [/b]The boundary for the Drew neighborhood program is tiny and no one rides the bus very far. [/quote]

This chain is about the idea of teams to desegregate, right? That would have to include non-optional busing or else nothing would change. APS would also have to do some creative and gerrymandered drawing of team boundaries, and even then I can't see how you get Nottingham, Discovery, and Jamestown into a group with any low income schools without making islands. [/quote]
I don't have time to create the actual map, but I think you could draw boundaries such that the teams are a little more balanced and palpable.  
Something like:
Abingdon, Drew, Oakridge, Hoffman-Boston
Fleet, Long Branch, Barcroft, Randolph
Ashlawn, Carlin Springs, Mckinley, Tuckahoe
ASFS, Taylor, Jamestown, new neighborhood school at Key if that ever happens
Glebe, Barrett, Discovery, Nottingham
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All this does is spread the low-income students more across the south arlington schools.  Not many Latino families in the Carlin Springs community are going to opt for Ashlawn, let alone McKinley or Tuckahoe.  This simply brings Oakridge and Fleet back in the direction they came from.
What's the point of ASFS, Taylor Jamestown, Key?  That's exactly what there is NOW - and look how diverse those schools are![/quote]

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