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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The AEM discussion on this is classic. One person called out the Henry folks on their fight to stay together really being about the south-of-the-Pike people not wanting to go to Drew, and a few chimed in to basically say, "I'm one of those south-of-the-pike Henry people, yeah, you're right, but you're an asshole for calling us on it."[/quote]

Yeah, I made that comment and got a flurry of very angry PMs, but there was enough "don't let me child be your social engineering project" comments that their true intentions are clear. [/quote]

The problem, though, is that the people you are calling out are minorities and are not rich or even MC, by Arlington standards.  [/quote]

Minorities aren't a thing that Arlington considers. They are not allowed to. Diversity means economic diversity and that's it. And frankly that's probably how policy should be made at this point anyway. [/quote]

I think we might be talking past each other.  I would have more sympathy for your position if the people you are calling out on FB were white and UMC.  The people who are saying “my child is not your social engineering project” are not white and lower MC (by Arlington standards).  You are coming off as a white savior.  [/quote]

And I would agree with you if I was talking about busing a Discovery unit down Glebe to Drew. The Henry units in question are closer to Drew than the Columbia Forest units currently proposed to go to Drew. In fact, it is arguably more socially engineered to put Columbia Heights up to Fleet because it is farther and because, apparently, Henry's stated goal is to "keep its diversity." That sounds a lot more like social engineering than simply drawing a reasonably shaped boundary around the neighborhoods that are closest to a school. And, for the record, the person who actually made the "social engineering experiment" comment is white.[/quote]

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