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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WOW, just WOW. Barcoft parent here. All of you love to talk about keeping communities together, but you are willing to completely divide up the Barcroft neighborhood among  different schools? What are we a buffet - north Barcroft goes to Barrett, South Barcroft goes to Randolph. How are we any less of a community than north arlington communities crying that kids from their neighborhoods will get split up. I thought that was why the SB made Reed a neighborhood school, to keep that community together. Don't the kids in Barcroft get the same consideration? Do we not count anymore because so many kids choice out?

Many kids do choice out, but many do not. If all the kids in the neighborhood went to Barcroft we would have a very serious overcrowding problem.

And guess who generally does NOT CHOICE OUT - the families from lower income apartments on the south end of the neighborhood. Those are the kids - the 60-65% of the school who are on free and reduced lunch - who will get bused when they currently walk. And, they will be bused because Randolph is on the other side of Columbia Pike, a street APS says little kids cannot cross. I drive through Barcroft every morning and mountains of kids walk from the south end of the neighborhoods to Barcroft school. The school board seems to think all those kids' families will just chose immersion - well they won't and should not have to.

If Barcroft and Carlin Springs become option schools, the entire western edge of the county could have no neighborhood schools. Nothing between Barrett and Claremont all the way to the Fairfax border. And, this is the highest poverty area of the county, with the biggest density of lower income families. And, the county plans to allow more low income housing. [b]You don't solve socio economic disparities by removing neighborhoods schools. [/quote][/b]

You do when the county has decided to move all of its AH to one geographic quadrant. There is no other way. You do this, or you do nothing. Choose. [/quote]

DP.  How does this solve the socioeconomic problems?  Rich folk won’t bus to Barcroft or wherever.  It’s just going to exacerbate segregation.[/quote]

What’s your alternative plan that would help better integrate some of these schools with a very high percentage and ED students?

I think you will get lots of rich folk still applying to ATS no matter where it is, which is why it cannot go to Nottingham or stay where it is. It has to move to S Arlington and put immersion in its current building. [/quote]

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