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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immersion and Montessori are both ideas that are thought will attract white, wealthy parents.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.[b] Even when it works, the kids are simply self segregating in the school itself.  [/b]

Arlington's problem is there is no middle class so the divide is sharp  - very rich and very poor - and so no efforts to relabel or create new schools will ever produce the desired result.

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This has not been my experience, at all, within the school building during school hours. Some of the extracurricular activities remain segregated by financial status (not many low income kids at our school participate in the rec league sports, or in scouts, or attend birthday parties, though they ARE invited). I think it's hard for parents who work irregular schedules and don't have easy transportation to facilitate those activities for their kids. But I have not witnessed ANY type of divide within the schools. The kids consider themselves friends, and it's not based at all on their parents' income. [/quote]

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