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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jamestown has a FARMS rate of 4.57% (county average 30.13%) and is 79% white (county average 44.1%). So yeah, those are the stats. Do what you want with them. [/quote]

Arlington county is 70% white, per the census. Not sure where you get 44.1% but you are wrong[/quote]

It’s because some people are using the APS stats.  This is a discussion about the public schools so some people are using the demographics of the student population.  A PP pointed this out.[/quote]

They shouldn’t though — it’s misleading. The county figures are a much better comparison and desirable benchmark.[/quote]

Why?[/quote]

Because [b]schools should reflect their communities. [/b]The issue with dramatically different demographics within the schools is a different policy question. [/quote]

This is such a confusing point to me.  Why is Arlington the community Jamestown should reflect?   It is because that is who pays taxes for it?   I’m serious.

Jamestown does reflect one “community” around it, the neighborhood community.

Is the notion here that APS should/does have some racial goal (eg 70% white or 42%) in districting schools?  That seems wrong at some level, but perhaps I am not thinking about it correctly. 
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DP.  I don’t think there should be a hard goal, but [b]I do think it’s worth exploring why some schools should be 80 percent free and reduced lunch and some less than 4 percent.  [/b]This is where most of the diversity comes from.  I think the goal should be something better than this.  Nobody should walk into a publicly-funded space and feel uncomfortable because it’s so segregated.  Does that make sense?[/quote]

It does, but I think I disagree with you that’s it’s worth exploring why this disparity occurs.  I *believe* it’s based on the geography of where these kids live.  But, please let me know if that assumption is incorrect.

And, if I am right, I guess I would say I am against busing kids and breaking up neighborhood schools to achieve economic parity amongst kids.  [/quote]

It’s based on geography and housing policy and I personally think politics.  I also think some places that aren’t in a walk zone for any school could have different busing options, but I don’t know all those details.  And how are the option schools affecting the neighborhood schools?

If you’re against busing kids, would you support affordable housing in your neighborhood school zone?  Or increasing lower priced market rate housing through zoning changes.

I don’t believe things can’t be improved.  I just don’t.[/quote]

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