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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been following these threads for a bit and probably shouldn't engage, but I feel compelled. Reading these threads fills me with an odd mixture of bewilderment, amusement, and dread. Maybe it's basic human instinct, but I just don't understand the need to demonize parents simply based on which side of Rt. 50 they live. I don't understand how something as seemingly simple as quality education for all our children brings out the very worst in people. Maybe it's the anonymity, but I cringe reading some of the terrible things stated here.[/quote]

It's simple. Rich people north of 50 think they have grounds for clamoring for good schools, but somehow their culturally equivalent slightly less wealthy peers in SA are supposed to F off. Move or shut up, don't threaten the political compact that says NA is for the rich, SA for the poor.
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This is a good example of part of the problem. When people are branded wholesale as assholes regardless of what they say or do, they tend to check out and not want to make personal sacrifices to help the people spitting on them.[/quote]

And to honest, I'd rather be helping the ESL kids in Title I schools than the white pseudo-SJW trying to piggy-back off their pain.
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Wanna help? Move there. Oh, you'd rather stay in a high performing school zone and just throw money at the problem? THAT is the problem, not SA parents agitating for integrated schools.[/quote]

Nope, moving there wouldn't help the ESL kids at all.  It would help the SA homeowners with buyer's remorse who bought in Title 1 school zones.[/quote]

Yes, it would. The problem is the status quo: the belief that SA should stay how it is, so that NA can stay how it is. It's only with that mindset that the PP comment about buyers remorse makes sense. That somehow SA homeowners have no right to buy a house there and agitate for better schools. That somehow, "you get what u pay for." And nothing can change, ever. That's a mindset that makes perfect sense to NA people who paid a premium to avoid socioeconomically integrated schools and perceive SA efforts to have that very thing as underhanded, a short cut, a bail out etc. they think SA parents want the same thing they did and paid for. We don't. We want something different, and frankly, better for everyone. 
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The rest of the county should not have to go through crazy transit gyrations to fix your mistake.  [/quote]

And our entire County shouldn't have to keep paying more for you to keep it the way you already have it and want it.  And Arlington students shouldn't have to lose out because of their parents' misconceptions, prejudices, narrow-mindedness, and self-centeredness.  North kids are missing out, too.[/quote]

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