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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’ll find the same disparity in every one of the larger public school systems in the DMV, including DC itself.  It’s because schools are largely neighborhood based.  Nothing unique about Arlington.

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The elementary schools are neighborhood based.  They need to do away with the option schools and figure out a better way to do the middle and high school boundaries.[/quote]
What do option schools have to do with middle and high school boundaries?  I'm only aware of them being relevant to Spanish immersion, where N. Arlington kids from Escuela Key can stay in immersion at Gunston and Wakefield.  If anything that would help improve the balance.[/quote]

There are elementary option schools.  There shouldn’t be option schools in a public school system.  The resources should be used to make sure the neighborhood schools offer a more equal experience.

Just my opinion.  [/quote]

Abolishing option schools would have a minimal effect on the percentages. Nothing would change at Tuckahoe on the one end or Carlin Springs on the other. The only way you could achieve an "equal experience" is forced busing of low income kids into high income schools and vice versa. Or building a lot of low income housing in high income areas. [/quote]

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