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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school board or APS staff will never publish where low income residents live or where affluent residents live, and how boundaries for a new school will affect demographics. It would be too controversial. [/quote]

[b]I would want to know if demographics were taken into consideration for Discovery. [/b]If they weren't, would it be for a new school? I'm not sure the county is out to carve new affluent enclaves via school zones in the South, over delivering better education to all there. At least, that's what I hope.[/quote]

If you were at the boundary process meetings, demographics (or diversity) was not one of the issues deemed important. At one of the first community outreach events, parents from the affected N Arlington Schools (Ashlawn, Glebe, McKinley, Taylor, Tuckahoe, Barrett, Jamestown, Nottingham) ranked priorities, and diversity came dead last. So demographics were not a factor at all. [/quote]

Of course not. They are perfectly happy with the lack of it.[/quote]

Why do you think diversity in schools is important? That's really a fringe view. Most people are more concerned with things like educational quality, location, facilities, programs, teacher quality, etc.

And why do you just attack these schools for "lack of diversity?" Do you have similar disdain for DC or MD schools that are even MORE homogenous than Arlington?[/quote]

are you the same poster from the beginning of this thread? I thought we had moved onto a more meaningful conversation...
If you aren't the same poster - please feel free to go back a reread some earlier exchanges.

I don't care that North Arlington isn't really worried about diversity. I do care that south Arlington has to. Of course that means something completely different on the other side of 50. Having a diverse school in the south means not 80% free lunch/ esol.

I've heard the new school will be a neighborhood school, and I don't see how it won't drain all the upper middle class kids out of Barcroft. That might be fine by me. Hopefully parents will send their kids there and it will open up more choice slots. That way the kids who aren't inbounds can choice out of their crappy local school. It's the only way the SB makes this go away.
The Latino community is thrilled by their segregated schools. Give the middle class an out. Everyone is happy.[/quote]

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