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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have to get them out. Lander is a good place to start. He seems very nice, but he isn't interested in being very honest about our predicament. He has also said some really silly things regarding poverty and Farms students. 
Maura is a nice combination of kindness and sensibility. [/quote]

What I was saying about the whites who want to get rid of the poors coming out to support Maura (b/c opposition to Lander).[/quote]

Lander is the one who insisted that race and SES don't matter because all APS schools are good, then voted for Option 4. So I wouldn't count him as an ally in the fight for social justice and quality public education for all.[/quote]

He also made the very valid point that busing kids would be very harmful for lower income families, members of which (i.e. parents) may not be easily able to get across town for school events (back to school night, music concerts, sporting events).

You have to be very careful that the call for diversity and "social justice" not be something privileged white people demand. Minority communities like their neighborhood schools just fine too.[/quote]

The experience in DC, with black OOB families trying very hard to get their kids into Wilson, suggests otherwise.

Murphy has perpetuated the current inequalities within APS but his downfall is that he's disappointed the privileged within APS as well.[/quote]

I don't think DC schools are comparable to Arlington, so I don't think your Wilson analogy really applies. Plus, there's Metro in DC. You cannot take Metro from Four Mile Run to Yorktown. [/quote]

Goodness! We can't have kids from FOUR MILE RUN polluting Yorktown!  [/quote]

Jesus Christ, you wench. This is in the context of the difficulty of PARENTS who live in the Four Mile Run area getting to Yorktown in a busing scenario.[/quote]

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