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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for starting this (I'm the person who originally asked how I could help advocate for you). I'm making notes on all of this and will keep following this and other discussions here to get as much info as I can before I submit my response.[/quote]

NP.  What would be absolutely fantastic is if you could rally your PTA and other NA school PTAs to take a stand on this and take the position that intentionally creating an 80% FRL school is absolutely unacceptable and inconsistent with the professed values of Arlington County and Arlington Public Schools.  The only way anything is ever going to change in APS or in the County is if the NORTH pushes for it.[/quote]

I agree the North needs to help push for it, but I don't think you can realistically expect that to happen on the PTA level. PTAs need to get approval from their memberships before taking positions on these kinds of issues, and PTA memberships are often sufficiently diverse that it's hard for a PTA to take a position without working against a member's interest (that's why you get things like McKinley's PTA not taking a position on the location review last spring even though the decision could have had significantly implications for them). If you look at Discovery, for instance, last year they had transfers from Abingdon, Drew, Long Branch, Oakridge and Randolph, and those members' interests count just as much as the families who live in the Discovery zone.[/quote]

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