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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It all comes back to concentrated AH. The longer I live in S Arlington the more convinced I am of this. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to change soon.[/quote]

Of course it’s concentrated AH. The demographics totally suck, and some of these schools have such an overwhelming amount of shitty housing zoned to them, there is no way to balance enrollment with the meager handful of sfh’s zoned to the school. 
Randolph has something like over 3,000 low income apts to its 800 sfh’s. 3,000 apts with a new crop of families every year. No way to balance that as things are. 
Tax break? It wouldn’t be enough - if it were legal. 
[b]They need a choice program in those schools ( ironic that Drew is dying to get rid of theirs),[/b] but that’s what
It will take. Promise those families a school within the school.[/quote]

The problem with Drew is that they have tried to combine a "choice" program plus a fairly small amount of neighborhood seats that aren't part of the choice program.  So kids who get stuck with that neighborhood program are not well served.  It should be completely one program -- either choice or neighborhood.  The combination does not seem to work well.[/quote]

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