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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the big flaw with your plan: The premise of your argument would be that the county is disadvantaging minority students against their will in order to preserve/increase segregation. In so [b]many of[/b] the options to give more balanced diversity between the schools, though, it was the minority groups who would have been moved to achieve that diversity who protested the move and wanted to stay in the closer school (for instance, the families in Hall's Hill and the Williamsburg island who didn't want to be bused to Williamsburg rather than going to the closer school with their ES classmates just to make Williamsburg more diverse). So not only would you probably not get those families on board with your lawsuit (since prevailing would mean them having to do something they have very explicitly stated they do not want to do), but it would completely undermine your case that APS offered a more balanced option and the people who supposedly would benefit most from it rejected it in favor of a less balanced option.[/quote]

But what APS capitulated to was the demands of higher SES families --- so the high school boundaries didn't move Arlington Forest families to Wakefield, and the MS boundaries didn't move Swanson families to Kenmore.

See if they take Lyon Village families out of ASFS. I'm betting no. They don't upset the potential campaign contributors. [/quote]

So you want to tell the people in the Williamsburg island, who specifically asked to go to Stratford instead because in some cases kids would have had to walk further to their WB bus stop than to Stratford itself, that they can't have that, that they need to be bused to Williamsburg so that diversity will be better at Williamsburg. And you want to tell the community in Hall's Hill that their kids can't go to MS with their ES friends, they instead have to get onto a bus to provide the token minority population in Williamsburg, even though they specifically said they didn't want that. And you want to move Swanson families to Kenmore and then Williamsburg families to Swanson, so that Williamsburg becomes more diverse while Swanson ends up as non-diverse as Williamsburg is current projected to be, but with no excess capacity available for transfers.

I'm curious, in all of this, where are you? Where are your kids slated to go under the revised Option A, and where would you ideally like them to go, and which PUs should be moved in or out of that school to get the demographics you want? How many of the families you're supposedly trying to protect would be forced into something they don't want just so you can get what you do want?[/quote]

At this point private. The demographics of the overcrowding do not match with our plans. I'm not a Fairfax fan but its not hard to reach a better school district and leave Arlington to the 20 somethings . [/quote]
 
Fairfax doesn’t want you. Not as a parent of kids in the school. Not as a neighbors.  Maybe try ACPS...[/quote]

LOL. Love when the McLean bitches get worked up. 
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