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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also if we live in S Arlington we really don’t want to be isolated at school with only N Arlington folk. Sorry I want my kid at a decent school but we chose S Arlington over N Arlington in part for the down to earth feel and economic and racial diversity. [/quote]

Dp- So you were always planning to send jr to the neighborhood school? You are just advocating for a better mix through out the county and in south Arlington in particular?
If yes- I get that. 
Someone up thread was saying that spreading out poverty through out sa ( all elementary schools farms % around 50) didn’t address NA- implying it wasn’t an acceptable solution. I think that’s a great way to keep Henry, Hoffman Boston, and Oakridge from being Tittle  1. If that’s your goal.... we get it.[/quote]

Title I threshold is 40%.  And why would anyone want to make all south Arlington schools Title I?  Spreading out the poverty across just south Arlington has to be the stupidest comment I've ever seen on this forum.  And there have been some doozies.[/quote]

I’m sure you have a genius and completely realistic scenario that spreads the poverty evenly into Jamestownland? Why don’t you have another drink...[/quote]

If someone from NA actually came up with such a plan, you’d piss all over it anyway simply because it came from NA. [/quote]

Oh so that’s why you’re keeping your incredible plan all to yourself! Talk about stupid comments on this thread...[/quote]

No, the stupid comment was thinking pp was saying she actually had a plan instead of realizing it was commentary on your lousy attitude.[/quote]

You are the problem with Arlington.[/quote]

People who are tired of getting slapped down and insulted when they try to help others are the problem. Sure. Okay. You go with that, I'm sure it'll get you far.[/quote]

People like who don’t see the benefit to having a 50% poverty rate spread where it is feasible are a HUGE problem. Protecting Henry or wherever makes you no better than Yorktown trolls.[/quote]

Poster you're telling to take another drink here.  I am not self-serving here.  We're done with the lower levels of schooling; but my kids went to a 65% FRL elementary school.  It's simply absolutely assanine to even suggest that all the FRL south of 50 must remain south of 50 and be spread evenly across all south arlington schools.  I never suggested jamestown has to have an equal %FRL, or any other school, for that matter - unlike the person suggesting all south Arlington schools should be 50% FRL.  Why should every school in SA be Title I?  If you're going to move kids around anyway, they can just as easily - if not more easily - inch upward north of 50.  Henry would gladly take a higher % again - but I don't think they should take it all the way back to 50 again.  Oakridge could take more again, too.  But when you have high-performing schools with actual healthy percentages of economic diversity, why should you ruin it?  There are other FEASIBLE ways to help the highest concentrations of poverty. And don't ask what "my grand plan" is because countless ideas and suggestions have been proposed and argued to death in countless strings on this forum and you know it.  Every single one of them is mocked and rebuked and dismissed by people like you.  [/quote]

TL:DR
“ my school is doing great and shouldn’t have to take more FRL kids. I’m enjoying my soaring property values thankyouverymuch. Let Randolph and Bracroft solve their own problems.”
North Arlington and south Arlington really aren’t that different.[/quote]

BS. The poster said, explicitly, that he/she would be fine increasing the farms percentage but not to a tipping point where poverty would dominate. Time and again, I hear you accusing SA parents of being the assh@le you are. Very distinctive. Why the hate? my guess is you're an Arlington Forest type. NA - but barely. You've got more common cause with SA than you think.[/quote]

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