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Look, I totally agree with you. I am just saying that perhaps we could be more sensitive to those fears. I believe that their children would fare better, over the long term, if they were forced to be in situations that might be more difficult or uncomfortable at first. But I think I "get" those fears a bit better now. My kids is attending a choice school in S Arlington that is doing a phenomenal job of including immigrant parents in the school community, which I think is a benefit for those kids, and I don't think it would be possible for many of those families to be as involved if their kids' school was on the other side of the county. So the solution has to include both housing AND schools. I think more "choice" programs, ones that would be really desirable to high SES families, should be moved South, to attempt to integrate the schools that are not diverse here, too. 
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The above would be great.  I think that Arlington needs to do better about integrating its schools socioecononmically.  Because what we have now are schools that specialize in teaching affluent middle class kids and schools that specialize in teaching poor immigrant kids.  They do a decent job at their respective specialties.  But, none of them do a good job of both.  Because they haven't had to. Few poor kids live up north, and few S. Arlington parents complain or even realize the difference. So, it's hard to be an immigrant kid at most N. Arlington elementary; and it's a huge disadvantage to be a middle class kid at one of the majority poor S. Arlington elementaries.  They teach the same curriculum, and your kids will still pass their SOLs, but if you're interested in them learning a great deal beyond that from their classroom teacher it's unlikely. She's way to stretched already getting everyone to pass their SOLs.[/quote]

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