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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Put another way, people are saying its OK with them that kids two miles away go to schools where more than 50% of the kids are in poverty, as long as their kids get to sleep 30 minutes later each morning.[/quote]

I’m just going to 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]

I'd argue that those likening the current proposals to "busing" are doing the same.

Unless you're putting forward another proposal that doesn't result in Kenmore going over 50% fr/l, the (possibly unintended) consequence of arguing strictly for proximity and arguing against the specific blended diversity option APS put forward could be Kenmore's fr/l rate increasing to over 50% (not to mention Jefferson and Gunston's rates going up, too). I also have to infer that you believe Kenmore is already too high in terms of fr/l, so what's another 7% point bump up? It's a lost cause in your mind, so it doens't matter if it's 45% fr/l or 100%. Increasing the fr/l rate may not be the reason that you're fighting being moved, but it will be the result. At the very least you accept the outcome of a susbstantially higher fr/l rate at Kenmore as the price of your children getting more sleep/keeping your "neighborhood" intact, walkabililty, or whatever.

I'm sure not [i]every[/i] Trump voter was an outright bigot. However, they ignored all of his race baiting and unseemly personal and campaign relationships, not to mention his vast faults and shortcomings as a candidate, in order to get that ACA repeal/tax cut/supreme court nominee. I don't think they are all racists, but they certainly enabled and emboldened those who are racists in order to achieve their other goal(s).

In summary, intentions matter far less than outcomes.

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I do not have a dog in the current fight, but laying all of that at the feet of a small number of parents, as if the concentrated poverty in areas of the county is their problem to fix, is [b]b&llsh!t.[/quote][/b]

And so is doing nothing. [/quote]

Petitioning the only group that can fix the root of the problem- THE COUNTY BOARD- and voting against those who exacerbate the problem are not “doing nothing.”
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That's funny. I don't seem to remember a group of north Arlington parents petitioning the county board to create more diversity of housing options in their neighborhoods. So strange that. I mean, you should absolutely do this, but right now we're talking about what the School Board can and can't do. They can and ARE changing boundaries. And you're saying they should NOT use their power to promote diversity while creating those new boundaries. I disagree.

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No one mentioned “a group of north Arlington parents”, so no wonder you don’t remember it.[/quote]

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