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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it takes a long time to get from Drew/Randolph/Carlin Springs to Discovery/Jamestown/Taylor, especially during rush hour. There is no appetite from parents on either end of the spectrum to mix it up, even without looking at the difficulty of planning and staffing bus routes. There's no opportunity to just shift the edges at the schools in the middle because those are already well balanced. [/quote]
+1 Randolph is also a true neighborhood school. There is no bus loop and the location makes it pretty much impossible to add one. Lots of poverty is concentrated there but also strong community that probably wouldn’t want to be broken up. [/quote]

And how would families/guardians without transportation get to Discovery/WMS/Yorktown where there is no good public transportation nearby. You essentially cut them out of any involvement in their kids schools.[/quote]

They need to think holistically.  Bus lines can be added anywhere.  We aren’t there yet so your comment is true today, but they need to be thinking beyond existing public transit.[/quote]

So it's realistic to think that a parent is going to tote multiple children on an ART bus, potentially 20+ minutes away,  for a 10 minute parent teacher conference?  Would you? No offense to PP, but when we think about these situations from positions of privilege, many important factors get overlooked.  There's reasons why having your school in walking distance is a better solution.

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I'm so sick of this "positions of privilege" crap.  It's the people of privilege who continue to suppress the underprivileged by creating obstacles to better opportunities:  concentrate low income housing; segregate schools; housing by most convenient and efficient public transit too expensive for low income to afford to live nearby; etc etc etc

It's people of privilege putting on airs of sympathy and understanding and speaking on behalf of all poor people, putting their presumed needs and conveniences above the things that have been shown by decades of social science research to actually benefit poor people and using poor people as a shield of an excuse to not make changes and to keep things they way they are, the way the privileged like it and want it to stay.

Socioeconomically diverse schools result in higher achievement and longer-term economic growth and success for disadvantaged kids than segregated high poverty schools with all sorts of other additional "resources." Period.  Either people care about that or they don't.  Period.  Arlington doesn't.  Period.[/quote]

Pointing out obstacles <> creating obstacles  :roll:

Let’s address obstacles. What are some possible solutions for transportation?

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Obviously, the solution for transportation is a gondola.  Welcome to Arlington.[/quote]

Not the street car? Ouch. 
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