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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving Arlington Forest PUs is not really "keeping a neighborhood together." Arlington Forest is separated by route 50. It might as well be two separate neighborhoods. My kid attends WL from one of the Arlington Forest PUs under consideration for a rezone to Wakefield. He takes a bus to WL but can walk to/from WL, and does, several times a week. No way would he be able to walk to/from Wakefield. Arlington county needs to increase diversity in the south Arlington neighborhoods in order to achieve it in the schools, not bus it in. [/quote]

I'm not part of the contingent that advocates leaving the western planning units closest to wakefield out of wakefield, but it seems like there's been momentum at least on this board to move one of the arlington forest PUs to wakefield.[/quote]

It just makes sense. You are not in the actual walk zone for W-L. Half your neighborhood is already zoned Wakefield. Your kids already go to MS at Kenmore, across the dreaded 50. How do they get there? We all go to the same pool, play on the same sports teams, etc. And moving you wouldn't make Wakefiled over 50% FARM's. So Arlington Forest meets all criteria except for proximity, but you're not walk zone so I can live with it.

If you move the units at the west Pike, you also meet 5 criteria, all but Demographics. And the demographics here well, those few planning units have 374 economically disadvantaged students. This is an area of concentrated poverty, as defined by HUD. The FARMs rate at Wakefield would go from the current 46% to 65%. It would be irresponsible for the county to deliberately INCREASE the economic disparity between the three high schools while they are striving to eliminate the achievement gap. There is a lot of research on best practices, and this would run counter to all recommendations. Not to mention, it would make us look so bad, like Loudoun: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/school-board-backs-away-from-rezoning-proposal-tagged-by-critics-as-segregation/2016/03/30/ce21bebe-f68c-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html

If it's a tie breaker, I am not going to chose the option that destabilizes one of our three high schools. I would hope that our school board has the same sense and approaches this from a logical, rational standpoint. [/quote]

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