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[quote=Anonymous][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]
And the neighborhoods are that way because.....????
Historical redlining, segregation, wealthy whites flocking to wealthy white neighborhoods, NIMBYism, etc. aka, gerrymandering.[/quote]

Yes, that's why the neighborhoods are segregated. I'm still waiting to hear the plan to integrate Tuckahoe, Nottingham, Discovery, Jamestown, and Reed. Who goes where?[/quote]

You are not going to easily intergrate those schools tomorrow. It is just not feasible without crazy boundaries and a ton of bussing.

What you CAN do is look at some of the schools on the NA/SA border and try to redraw boundaries to even them out some. Ashlawn, Long Branch and Fleet are all under 30% this year while schools that immediately surround them are 50% and higher. Barcroft, Drew, Barrett and Randolph are all pretty high. I am sure there is a way to break all of those schools up and better draw boundaries without crazy bussing.

Turn Key into a neighborhood school, move the immersion program to Barcroft or Carlin Springs and you have even more flexibility to balance the numbers out.

Further down the road you can work on housing and other factors that contribute to the problem to better intergrate the schools that are not already intergrated.

There are a lot of factors that have lead to what we have now and I wish we could have all schools equal but to say we should not try because some schools will stay with super low FRL rates is not going to solve anything. [/quote]

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