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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole thing is being done to give back a mess of neighborhood seats to Courthouse. So I’d say the plan does quite nicely by central Arlington.  No one wants to hear about Reed hoarding seats for “future growth.”  There a neighborhoods that need those seats today. Get real. [/quote]

How can you say the proposed plans do quite nicely for central Arlington? [b]Does anyone disagree that Ashlawn is getting hurt by the proposed plans[/b]??? [/quote]

Emphatically. [/quote]

Then clearly you don't understand the impact of the proposed changes on the school and community. It will significantly change the student body and minimize diversity. At a school whose motto is "global citizenship" and being accepting of all differences. Turning Ashlawn into another NW school does hurt it. 
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DP.  I understand your point, I’m just thoroughly over the “my school is more precious than any other” argument we’ve been hearing from so many school communities for years.  Everyone thinks their own school community is special, but that’s not a compelling argument for anyone outside of it.[/quote]

Ashlawn parent here, DP than above, but I think the post above that explains how it's not that we're special or deserve to be spared from.change, just that we too are affected and that should be acknowledged.  Honestly, I think our community is impacted more than the McKinley community, and for that reason I'm pretty disgusted by their hysterics over all of this.  It will suck for my kids if our school changes, but sometimes change happens and it sucks...Unlike what appears to be the perspective of the McKinley families, I just don't think I'm entitled to be spared from the change simply because it will be sad for me and our school.  [/quote]

Everyone is getting so wrapped up in where the option schools are moving that they are failing to realize that regardless of where they put the option programs, schools in the McK, Reed and Ashlawn areas were going to have massive changes to their school boundaries due to Reed opening and ASFS getting new boundaries.  Even if they didn't move ATS to McK, the changes were coming. Also, as a SA parent, [b]I'm really annoyed by all the people crying about the diversity leaving their school while they come home to their SFH in their all white neighborhood.  If you want a diverse school, move to a diverse neighborhood[/b]![/quote]

Bingo.  An awful lot of Ashlawn’s diversity comes from the Ashlawn tail, which people who actually live there have been complaining about for years due to the lack of proximity.  All the people living in the predominantly white neighborhoods right around Ashlawn who are now complaining about losing their diversity are basically saying they want to override the needs and interests of those diverse families in favor of keeping them at Ashlawn so that the affluent white people don’t have to admit to the realities of their own choice to live in a predominantly white neighborhood.[/quote]

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