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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are these planning units that can be moved just a little further, but not too far, and will also significantly change the demographics of the schools? I don't think they exist. For real change you need to move people from S Arlington to the northwest schools. If Tuckahoe/Nottingham/Discovery/Jamestown are unacceptable locations for option schools because of access issues it's definitely not ok to force kids to travel there. If you move kids from northwest Arlington to S Arlington you are leaving empty seats that need to be filled in the NW. If you move kids around in the middle you aren't really accomplishing anything because those are the schools that are already balanced. [/quote]

+1.  The people claiming APS can meaningfully improve diversity without extensive busing are being deeply disingenuous.  Our schools aren’t imbalanced because their borders have been gerrymandered that way, they’re imbalanced because the neighborhoods are imbalanced.[/quote]

There are small choices they can make that can not make things worse. For instance, moving the Gilliam Place PUs to Fleet rather than Barcroft, and the Arlington Mill residences to a Barcroft rather than Carlin Springs. They can’t completely change the make-up of all schools without “busing,” but they can avoid further entrenching segregation in some cases. Also, they still have to fill buildings and balance enrollment. If they can do that without exacerbating disparities between neighboring schools, they should.[/quote]

Gilliam Place to Fleet is a helpful move. Arlington Mill to Barcroft is moving deck chairs on the Titanic. [/quote]

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