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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what you guys are arguing about above, but I'm a PP on this thread and a Nauck resident. Some of us have kids at Drew already and others are ready to send our kids there. 80%+ low income with a b.s. boundary stretching all the way to the west Pike is going to scare UMC parents, no doubt. But 60% with a great new principal and a new curriculum is a different story. Give it a chance to succeed. There's a reason many of us chose to live where we did, and it's not because we can't afford North Arlington.[/quote]
Bursting bubble in 3..2..1...

60% isn’t going to get you there. Please take a look at Barcroft. And don’t start with a bunch of BS about the year round calendar. That’s just the excuse UMC liberals use. If they change the Calendar, they’ll just not go and not have an excuse ( see: Douglas Park)
Drew will have to be UNDER 55%.
I think low 50’s and you’ll have a shot, but if 6 out of 10 kids are getting free lunch? No. You will not get a ground swell.

You guys need to get shirts printed

#NOAPSOVER50

No Schools Over Fifty

Arlington can and should do better.[/quote]

As a goal, that is literally impossible without county-wide busing. I appreciate the snappiness of your slogan, but it's not realistic. [b]All we're asking for is a proposal that works within APS's own criteria and doesn't have Drew come out the loser on literally every metric, seemingly in order to benefit other schools[/b]. Then we'll see if Drew can make it work at 60 with a great principal, or not. [/quote]

You people aren't getting that THIS is what is "literally impossible."  You can't make lemonade out of lemons without sugar.  It is not possible to adhere to the 6 boundary principles and get what you're asking for.

It doesn't require countywide busing in the sense you're suggesting.  We already HAVE countywide busing - we're busing kids from all parts of the County to their neighborhood schools and we're busing kids from all over to option programs.  But it does require re-establishing boundaries for the entire system at once and not in geogrpaphic pieces.  "No schools over 50" does not equal "ALL schools 50."  We just need to (a) change the boundary principles and/or (b) give the demographic principle greater weight than other principles like contiguity and stability that have less impact on academic outcomes; and (c) get enough schools in the mix to be able to balance the poverty and ELL concentrations across more schools without making them such a minority that they feel isolated within their school and also so that MCnon-minority english speaking kids don't feel isolated either, and NOBODY is in a school with different or lower expectations for its students - which IS happening now.[/quote]

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