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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county should set up a "diversity volunteer" program.  All you people that support diversity can volunteer and send your child to a high farms school.  But I bet none of you would sign up.  Put your money where your mouth is!  [/quote]

They have done it- its called the immersion program.  I and many others like me signed up.  
Claremont- 38% FARMS
Key- 44% FARMS.
The largest number if transfers to Key are from Long Branch- followed by Taylor (with 4.2%FARMS).

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Which is no surprise because LB and Taylor are the closest *neighborhood* elementary schools to Key. There are similar patterns at Claremont, Campbell, and ATS if you look at the transfer data-- the largest numbers of families come from the closest neighborhood elementary schools. Like it or not, families prefer going to schools near their own houses (whether choice or neighborhood) because we value walkability in Arlington. Look at how we're restriping so many roads to take away car lanes and make things safer for bikes and pedestrians. We're all about the "Car Free Diet" these days. Traffic sucks. And we all know that traffic is the absolute worst on Carlin Springs Road because that was the #1 reason the School Board voted not to build a 4th comprehensive high school at Kenmore. So you can't hate on the Swanson people who would rather stay where they are-- walking up residential streets to Swanson-- than tangle with Route 50 and Carlin Springs at rush hour.[/quote]

You can't use Claremont and Campbell to extrapolate this conclusion. Up until this coming school year, they've had weighted lotteries. You had little to no hope of getting in via lottery unless you were in a preferred zone, which tended to be geographically close to each of those schools. ATS is the only school with an open lottery. But it's also hard to know whether the nearby parents were choosing greater proximity or the capped enrollment vs. overcrowding and construction at McKinley and Ashlawn. [/quote]

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