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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I looked at the 2nd post with numbers of transferees and it just keeps reminding me how dumb this whole "choice schools cause brain drain and are the reason high poverty schools don't perform well" conversation is.

There simply are so many minority and high poverty students in some areas that the small # of wealthy kids will not make any difference to improving outcomes. At all.  Even if you could force them to go to their local school which you can't.

Take for example Carlin Springs.  60 White Kids, 160 Hispanic kids and 40 Black kids transferred out of Carlin Springs.  But the posters are hyperfixated on how to force those white kids to go back to their home school?  Cause their mere presence will make the school better? Thats what like 3 kids per classroom?  And we are supposed to believe that they are inherently better behaved and will improve the school more than their minority peers? But we don't care about the intellectual and cultural contributions of the 200 minority students who also choose to leave that school?

If choice schools went away they'd have to redo boundaries and I'm assuming Carlin Springs isn't large enough to house all 850 kids currently zoned there. And geographically wealthier families are still concentrated so how exactly would you create a local boundary between Neighborhood CS and newly neighborhood Campbell that doesn't also have crazy wealth and racial imbalances?

And then if you did close all the choice schools, people would just move or choose private and then you would have even greater concentration of poverty.  Like it or not the choice schools probably help diversity in some of the higher poverty areas because the option keeps people bought into the Arlington School System.  They may suck it up in elementary school because they still have the option in middle or high school for a choice school.  Or one sibling goes to a choice school  so they keep both kids in APS. Take away options and more people aren't even going to bother to give APS a try.   [/quote]
Thank you. The exact same thing could be said for Abingdon. There is no space to put the transferees [/quote]

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