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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Enlarging HB to the size of the other high schools has been discussed many times over the years and it will never happen. It would simply continue to be a socio-economically segregated escape from the neighborhood schools, but much larger and thus undermining those comprehensive high schools. APS has a good balance at the moment among the neighborhood schools and options programs. [/quote]

Clearly you live in N Arlington or haven't spent anytime looking at the racial and economic segregation in APS.[/quote] There is segregation and there has been for quite some time. Boundary changes have historically exacerbated the segregation, which has also been the case in FCPS and MCPS. Enlarging HB would only exacerbate existing segregation. [/quote]

And the county will never seriously address it by assigning students across the county at the high school.[/quote]

Not in a million years. APS also removed diversity criteria from future boundary changes. Neighborhood schools, walkability, etc., are the priorities going forward, when or if APS changes boundaries again. [/quote]

As it should be. No one is stopping parents from the wealthier white neighborhoods from choose to transfer to more diverse schools. You aren't guaranteed a spot but it's likely. Instead, these parents want to force brown/black kids to be assigned to schools farther away from home, which means more time out of their day for transit and making it more difficult for lower-income parents to be active in their schools. These communities WANT to be in their neighborhood schools! They don't want to be pawns so that affluent white parents can offer their children a more "diverse" school experience.[/quote]

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