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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did not read through all of the previous posts, so I apologize in advance if I'm missing something, but for those who state that diversity is their main goal - do you think that bussing kids from one end of the county to the other, the result being only a slight change in diversity is more important than having kids bussed out of their neighborhoods and schools that they can walk to?  It's fine if that is the thought, I'm just wondering if it is.[/quote]

[b]Over a third of kids are bussed already due to choice schools[/b], including lots of kids who presumably could be walking to neighborhood schools. Arlingtonians are fine with bussing kids all over the county. [/quote]

Really? Greater than 33% of APS students go to a choice school???[/quote]

No, I misspoke. About 20 percent go to choice schools, one out of five. You can look at the transfer report yourself. 300 kids go to Drew Montessori, 650 to Science Focus, 500 to ATS, 700 to Claremont, 300 to Key....not all would be bused, but that's 2,400 elementary students out of 13,000 elementary students at choice schools. 3,400 total kids transfer to other elementaries. Numbers are about the same for middle and high schools.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Transfer-Report-2016-17.pdf

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Science Focus isn't a choice school. And I wouldn't call administrative transfers a "choice".

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