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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do we get rid of 60-80% FRL neighborhood schools?  I think most folks would love to do this if you know how.  Bussing children all over the county is not an option, however.[/quote]

1) Housing

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11) Make Claremont neighborhood.

If anyone can fill in #1-10 with other than "housing" LMK. This is the best I've been able to come up with. [/quote]

I think that horse has been beaten and yes agree that solves things but APS is not any position to control that and the County doesn't care about school problems.  That's long been the case.[/quote]

APS can control starting at #11 and it should.[b] Option schools only help diversify the option schools.[/b] They further segregate the neighborhood schools. [/quote]

Not if they put them in neighborhoods that can’t ever have “balanced” demographics due to previously built housing. There is NO WAY they can get balance at some schools, not even if every option school child returned, because the neighborhood zones aren’t balanced. You can’t realistically expect parents to “choose” that. There is always choice for families of more means. Always. Not great, but it’s true. And there aren’t enough of us who make a choice outside of our comfort zone, without some kind of incentive. Either recognize that or prepare to see even more disparate school populations. If diversity is the priority, then move or leave the option programs in the zones that cannot be balanced through common sense boundaries. Shuttering them will not have the result you think. [/quote]

Options in the unbalanced neighborhoods condemn the remaining children to 80+% low income, like Carlin Springs (option to Campbell or Claremont) and like Drew was/is projected to be (option to Montessori or Hoffman-Boston). It's not acceptable for a public school system to do that on purpose. You can't make UMC parents stick with their neighborhood school, I agree, but you can avoid giving them an out that comes on the backs of the other children in the same school zone. [/quote]

Do you know how many non-low income kids live in the zones you mentioned? Not enough to make a dent. The only MC neighborhood assigned to Carlin Springs is tiny, and doesn’t have that many kids. From the walk zone review I think there were 50, K-5. You think sending just those 50 kids will make for a balanced school? Let’s wait and see what the demographics of Drew wind up being. I am not encouraged. [/quote]

I live in one of those zones so, yes, I know. These demographics don't have to be set in stone. If the enrollment projections from last night are encouraging for any reason, it's the idea that kids are moving in. They literally can't all cram into the neighborhoods with "good" schools and it's hard to turn down that short South Arlington commute. It's too late for my kids to attend a balanced elementary school, but it isn't too late for a future K-5 generation to come along behind them.

Your point above is also another reason to make Carlin Springs option, btw. [/quote]

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