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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The option schools are some of the most diverse and balanced in Arlington. If people actually want to solve the issue of structural racism you don't shut down the option schools. You go after the schools that are 2% minority. This means radical boundary adjustments or a countywide ranked choice system. I'm all for it, but are they? Kinda doubt it, they people want their cake and they want to eat it too.[/quote]
People are also ignoring that having the option programs at Gunston and Wakefield are helpful to disparities at those schools.  My 22207 kid wouldn't attend either except for their option program and their stats absolutely benefit the school.[/quote]

+1. Zoned for Hamm/Yorktown; kid attended/s Gunston & WHS. We know lots of families in the same position. [/quote]

With every boundary change over the past 30 plus years, including the latest ones, which further concentrated wealth in the Yorktown school pyramids, these option programs are helping to balance demographics.

APS could have come up with better boundaries, to account for housing patterns and segregation, but they never really did, or made halfhearted attempts at best.

Since demographics are no longer weighted in the new boundary change criteria, the only solutions are our successful option programs (the status quo), or going to a lottery system for all schools. (Boundaries are now focused on proximity and alignment.)[/quote]

Or the JFs of the world could use their energy pushing for more equitable boundaries. But you don't see him doing that. He went right from screaming for a virtual option program to wanting to shut down options for others when he didn't get what he wanted for his kid. And dressing it up as doing it for social justice reasons. [/quote]

I believe he's doing it for budget reasons, nothing to do with social justice or diversity or anything else.[/quote]

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