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Then shouldn't you take it up with the SB/APS who hired the consultants to create that tool?  Obviously, demographics may have not been in the forefront of their minds when trying to deal with this immediate overcrowding issue facing HS students in the 2017-2021 classes?  They need to balance the other factors as well, for example, not needing to pay for more bussing in an already strained system.

But some of the folks on this thread have been freely flinging insults at an entire zip code just b/c some of the threads may have argued for other considerations.  They may not have even been from Yorktown parents.  Maybe they were from WL parents?  And then you'll just say, but wait until they do get impacted, then they'll care.  Yeah, of course.  That's generally how it is.  When you are not directly impacted, you tend to tune out things more.  At some point they will voice their opinions (i.e., county-wide rezoning for HS) and at that point you'll probably have alienated any of the more sympathetic parents.  You can then brush that off with the refrain that we were all secretly racist anyway and so  we would never have joined any movement to balance demographics more throughout all 3 schools.  I know I am definitely feeling less sympathetic to your cause now.  [/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I'm a South Arlington mom.  I hear what you're saying.  But please hear where we are coming from.  It's hard because really this whole process isn't just about educating our kids.  Its about property values and change. And change is hard.  But we come on here and have to hear time and time again about our crappy schools and our bad decisions and how we don't care about our kids enough, and that it's nobody's fault but our own.  So we defend ourselves and we defend our schools and we defend our choices.  We don't love our kids any less because some of us chose to live in South Arlington.  Maybe it is all that we can afford.  Or maybe we decided to make diversity a priority. Or maybe we just liked that we could walk to the park, the library, the grocery store, school.  
My kids go to an excellent school now, and I would be fine sending them to Wakefield.  I don't want things to change either. But unfortunately, W-L is overcrowded now, and that needs to be fixed.  And here we are - bickering, name calling,  hurling insults.  
Change is hard, I understand.  Maybe, like a PP said, W-L will just end up adding 1000 seats to their own campus.  [/quote][/quote]

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