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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t sound like the community Carlin Springs serves is clamoring for an Immersion school. Stop offering it up like a sacrificial lamb to make things more convenient for the UMC. Claremont is already taking up a school in S Arlington 2 miles away. Campbell is right there too. [/quote]

Yeah. They’re a pretty quiet bunch. They don’t want too much attention. Wonder why that is? Wonder what could keep that particular community under the radar....[/quote]

Don’t be an ass. It’s unbecoming. [/quote]
Back at ya.
Don’t use underserved communities to help you achieve your goal of opportunity hoarding. Unbecoming indeed.[/quote]

I’m not sure what you mean by opportunity hoarding. I’m a South Arlington resident that lives in between 2 already-option schools and doesn’t want to see a another take up a third neighborhood school. [b]Makes it harder to economically diversify the schools. [/b]

I will call out your subtle-wink-wink comment about why Carlin Springs parents aren’t more vocal. You’re not as clever as you think you are. All you’re doing is perpetuating harmful stereotypes. Do better. [/quote]

DP, but nope, economic segregation propped up by housing policy has baked this cake. There are no boundaries, and certainly not sensible/walkable ones (and that’s all they will ever do) that can ever really change the make-up of the most segregated schools, because there simply aren’t enough SFHs to balance the CAFs in Arlington Mill or the MARKs in Douglas Park. And when I say balance, I mean at least a 50/50 balance. Show me on a map how you do that. But I don’t think you can. If it were that easy it would already be done. Also, you can’t cross 50. It’s forbidden. [/quote]

Bingo. The boundary process last fall included a map showing what boundaries would look like if every school had about 50% FRL (which is the average across SA as a whole.) it would never happen. The truth is that our housing policy driving FRL rates higher. Most SA schools have rates higher than they did 20 years ago, when the county had much more market rate affordable housing. We have fewer units, but more families than before. The student generation rates tell the story. SA simply can't handle anymore. Time for NA to take its share.[/quote]

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