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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP, but obvious to me to make options bigger. Henry and Oakridge are so overcrowded for one reason: parents have been packing I to those zones to avoid the surrounding neighborhood schools. Making neighborhood schools like them bigger just worsens that problem and will lead to more frequent rezonings, lobbying, etc. make the option schools bigger and you give more people more choices. It's nice to have choices. Which behavior do you wa t to support, more self segregation, or more countywide integration?[/quote]

That's assuming that many/most people are choosing option schools because they believe they are best for their child, or if they are also an opportunity to escape a poor or overcrowded neighborhood school.  Option schools can just as easily be a drain on neighborhood schools by providing an out for families who don't want to deal with problems.  Meanwhile, solid neighborhood schools that families don't want to leave end up overcrowded if you make them the smaller facilities.  Option schools are supposed to be the bonus in the school system, offering an additional educational option for families.  Using them to instead as escape routes from undesirable schools is hurting matters, not helping.  [/quote]

Sorry, but you're wrong here. Option schools are largely the only SES integrated schools we have. Over and over, posters here think that SA parents have two choices: neighborhood or option. Nope. It's a free country and they have those options, they can go private, they can move. You might as well blame north Arlington parents for br moving by to south arlington to "improve" the low SES schools there. Where you live is not some moral obligation to attend the local neighborhood school. For many UMC parents, a high farms school is simply not an option. It's not like if they didn't choice out they'd bite the bullet and send their kids there. [/quote]

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