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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]regarding where H-B Woodlawn is located:

I think your opinion on this depends in part on whether you place a high value on having a diverse student body and how you think about "fairness." Right now, the location of the school in the wealthier part of the county means that it is more accessible to wealthy families than to poor ones, with kids in the poorer part of the county required to make a greater effort to get to school than kids in the wealthier part of the county. Kids who live in South Arlington expend more effort to get to HB--they travel further so they have to get up earlier in the morning to get there and it takes them longer to get home in the afternoon. It is a greater burden on them especially if they want to participate in sports in their home schools. And the families in S. Arlington who take on this burden are likely to be ones with greater resources. Just look at the stats on kids receiving free or reduced lunch at H-B compared with the other high/middle schools:

Gunston--39%
Jefferson--46%
Kenmore--53%
Swanson--15%
Williamsburg--13%
Wakefield--48%
W-L--30%
Yorktown--13%

H-B--16%

That rate is ridiculously off for a school that is supposedly representative of all the elementary schools in the county (since that it the way slots are allocated, by elementary school enrollment. The overall rate for the county is 30%.). H-B is, essentially, a bastion of white privilege, which flies in the face of its very ethos. (Ask yourself why parents who clamor to get their kids into ATS turn around 5 years later and start agitating for H-B--the very opposite in pedagogic philosophy.) And I say this as a strong supporter of the school and its pedagogy. (My own children do not go there.)

Moving the school to S. Arlington, IMO, would level the playing field somewhat. For a number of reasons, the school may always appeal more to a certain demographic, but there is no reason why the deck should be stacked so strongly in that direction.
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If you follow your logic and implication that if H-B were moved to South Arlington to attract more brown people, the test scores and quality would drop since presumably that would probably drop accordingly.

Your "bastion of white privilege" comment is stunningly offensive. [/quote]

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