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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You only buy in SA if you can’t afford NA.  Plain and simple truth. [/quote]

For many, but not all.  I've spoken with two different new neighbors just this past week who have professed quite the opposite.  They both, in fact, specifically chose south Arlington.  One of them even specifically targeted one of the high FRL schools, fully aware of the GS ratings.  And if people like you making comments such as you did actually took the time to come south and talk to people, you would hear over and over again how they can, but choose not to, or wouldn't even if they could, move to the north.

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We are two working parents who bought what we could afford in a nice area that gives us both a short commute. That meant S. Arlington. Now, several years later, we are in a financial position to move North, but we are happily staying put. Perhaps it is because we are minorities, but we feel more comfortable in SA. We value education, but it is not THE defining value in our household. We also emphasize kindness, empathy, hard work, family time, bettering our community, etc.
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Hmm, seems like things like "kindness" would include not engaging in stereotyping and maligning thousands of people you don't know.[/quote]

Agreed. I was the PP who said I don't understand why people feel the need to demonize those based simply on which side of 50 they live (07/21/2018 14:02). I think we are all trying to raise our children the best we can, North or South. 
 
I think you may be reading your own biases into what I'm saying. I'm not trying to stereotype or malign anyone. It's more, some people on these threads claim that those of us in SA are either poor, or don't value education, (the implication being, otherwise, why else would we live here?). The intention of my post was to say some of us choose to be here, for a variety of reasons.

It's not that other values aren't reflected or important to parents in NA; of course they are. By virtue of where we live though, my children see a wide range of different kinds of people and different life situations. That gives me a lot of opportunities to teach and reinforce some of the values important to me, because the prompts for these discussions come up in their daily life.

To bring it back to schools though, just as my kids benefit from living here, I hope that my kids are also contributing to the benefit of their classmates. Not to get too much into my background, but books taught me to dream; it was the few middle class kids (and their parents) in my early life who showed me my dreams could become a reality. It's why schools like Randolph and Carlin Springs make me sad. It's not that there aren't great teachers, loving parents, and wonderful students in those schools. There absolutely ARE. But some of the educational benefits are lost when the schools are so very segregated.  [/quote]

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