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"The most important educational resource the local school district allocates with its decisions, fairly or unfairly, is its high-achieving students. If Arlington school leaders continue to draw boundaries isolating high-achieving students into racially and economically isolated wealthy “neighborhood schools,” it is denying its most crucial educational resource to poor and minority kids."

As true now as when it was written six years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/de-segregating-arlington-schools/2012/10/29/d1530fe2-2085-11e2-afca-58c2f5789c5d_blog.html?utm_term=.c7d9ed894c46[/quote]

So other people's kids are just that, resources, that can be allocated, allotted, and otherwise deployed to meet some social justice goal.  No thanks.  People are generally fine and comfortable with money, time, or other such goods being sent to help underperforming schools.  But when you start treating other people's kids as if they were just tools to use and abuse is when you lose all support.

I'm fine with high FARMs schools and students getting a disproportionate share of resources.  They already do just by virtue of living in Arlington.  I am not fine with my kid being a sacrificial lamb.  [/quote]

You think going to school with poor kids is a form of child abuse? Wow. What exactly is your kid sacrificing? After all. These ooor kids and schools are supposedly getting a disproportionate share of resources. Doesn't you're little lamb stand to gain then? Which is it, can't be both.[/quote]

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