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The thing is: if you thought you were staying at Henry, would you still be advocating for this? Or would you be mad that parents who didn't buy into Henry are taking away your "good" neighborhood school? If you're waiting for the Henry parents, or even Oakridge parents, who are in effective walk zones to agree to a limited choice model in south Arlington, you're going to be waiting for a long time. And if you're waiting for north Arlington to get on board, well, they gave their two cents last year when the K-12 vision had a similar proposal of limited choice mixed in with neighborhood schools with the county divided E/W. You would not even believe the things that were said if I told you. Maybe in another generation. Or maybe not. [/quote]

Agree. There is no getting around the fact that 47 percent of south Arlington elementary students receive free or reduced lunch, and that's including option schools. There's zero incentive for parents at a school under 47 to push for more diversity - Claremont, Henry and Oakridge are the only ones and in fact probably going to come out of the redistricting with even lower free/reduced meal percentages.[/quote]

I can see how FARMs numbers might go down at Claremont & Henry, with them becoming county-wide choice schools with no n'hood or boundary preference. But wouldn't some of the Oakridge students end up at Drew, and vice versa?[/quote]

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