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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of two kids in North Arlington who may be affected by this, I cannot think of worse news than “your kids are being bussed to Kenmore.” We will leave if that happens.[/quote]

As a parent of a North Arlington child who is a voluntary transfer to Kenmore from Williamsburg, I think you are completely nuts. Class sizes are small, there are enough seats in the lunch room, and I heard multiple times this year at BTS night how the 6th grade class is so nice / kind / caring to one another.  My child is doing well academically and the block scheduling has been a nice way to adjust to middle school. The tide is shifting.[/quote]

I love you! I hope you send an email to the School Board. I also hope you might speak at the School Board meeting!

The people who are balking at going probably have never even been to Kenmore. [b]They just know there are more brown people and are freaking out.[/b] [/quote]

You don’t know those people or their motivations.  Again, I’ll leave this here:

The straw man fallacy involves misrepresenting an opponent’s position to make it easier to refute. Straw man arguments often oversimplify opposing views or disregard inconvenient points in favor of points that are easy to argue against. [/quote]

Then how do you explain posts like the one at 9:08:

[quote=Anonymous]The people who are complaining the most are the ones who have managed through hard work to buy a house away from SA low performing schools, but who fell a little short of being able to buy North enough in Arlington to completely escape FARMS. These families feel like they had gotten over the wall but the SB is trying to drag them back down. I understand. I would be livid if this was happening to my children- sacrificed so that the SB can feel better about itself.  [/quote]

It does seem to be a pretty simple issue that they have. You can say "low performing schools" or you can say "schools with a lot of poors" or you can say "schools with brown kids" but it is all the same thing in the end, and a lot of people are dead set against sending their kids to them. They spend tons of money to live a mile or two north in a different boundary and then fight to keep that boundary. How is the issue more complex than not wanting to go to school with poor kids? [/quote]

No actually it isn't the same thing. I posted fifteen pages ago that I couldn't care less what color or SES status the kids in my child's school are.  I do care about performance. I wouldn't voluntarily send my kids to a lower performing school in lily white rural Virginia either. Don't kid yourself, if the diversity boundaries were drawn and reached up to the McLean border, or wherever your $1M plus home is, would you mind? Would you put your kid on a bus to a lower performing school regardless of its racial or SES makeup? Some parents do, and good for them. I choose to want my kids to attend the higher performing neighborhood school that they can walk to. 
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