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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we take option schools away, the UMC white families will not just automatically see the light, enroll in Barcroft and Randolph and magically balance the FARMS rates. They will move to private or move out of the neighborhood altogether to a zone with a "better" school.

People who think Arlington is the only place with this problem and that it's caused by option schools are terribly naive. This issue has existed for decades nationwide. No one has solved it. Busing was unfortunately a sad failure that led to white flight and arguably even weaker public schools due to the loss of those families from the system.
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Yeah no one has solved this problem. You can't have diverse neighborhood schools without diverse neighborhoods. [/quote]
Then let go of neighborhood schools and implement a select-choice districtwide system.[/quote]

Lol. The SB has said ad nauseam, even during option schools discussions, that neighborhood schools are and will continue to be the backbone of APS. You’re fighting a losing battle.[/quote]
I'm not actually fighting any battle - it was just a logical solution to the stated problem.  Nevertheless, since you're going to continue the battle against integration because there's just nothing that can be done by schools because it's all the County's fault and only the County can fix it: stop complaining about walk zones and expanded walk zones and zones that can overlap and unbalanced enrollment and locations of option programs.  'cause you can have more diverse neighborhood schools than Arlington currently has by busing kids who are already bused to different schools - they clearly are not going to schools in their neighborhood anyway; so whatever school they are assigned to is their neighborhood's school.  "Neighborhood school" isn't narrowly-defined as a school building within the physical boundary of one's actual neighborhood.  It is actually the school to which one's neighborhood is assigned - along with other neighborhoods, or parts of neighborhoods since people believe all civic associations regardless of size can be split up,  - regardless in which neighborhood the school actually physically resides.  The SB clearly is not planning to create a school in every neighborhood so everyone can attend "their neighborhood" school.

There are things to be given and things to be taken no matter what.  "The losing battle" people merely believe it's time to change which things are given and which are taken - that it's time for different sacrifices by different people, and different compromises for the benefits of more integrated schools despite housing patterns.[/quote]

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