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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. APAH and their mouthpiece Mi Vota Cuenta will be all over you if you start a no school over 50 campaign.  They will call you racists and say that you are saying you don't want to be at a school with poor people and that the are not smart.  Just review the campaign that was waged for distributing affordable housing.  APAH and VOICE started a campaign calling UMC in S,Arlington racists.  You literally cannot win.  Arlington has been entirely turned over to the affordable housing lobby.[/quote]

Off-topic, but, got a link to said campaign?[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I believe he or she was referring to this process back in 2015: https://www.arlnow.com/2015/09/17/new-south-arlington-group-urges-county-board-to-accept-housing-plan/ [/quote]

This.  I am in South Arlington and used to be super involved in trying to bring down farms rates and increase diversity.  I used to go to school board meetings, open office hours etc.  I gradually came to the realization that it’s only generally middle to upper middle class people who want this.  When you speak to [b]the Latino community they absolutely do not want to be broken up or bused.  They take offense to the notion that they have to spread out to improve test scores. [/b]The school board is happy to oblige.  [/quote]

Back to the topic at hand, nobody is actually suggesting this. The Staff has presented a map where it is precisely those communities that are being broken up in order to maintain the current Henry boundary.

To your point, in cases where they actually are busing for diversity, like the Arlington Mill neighborhood, those folks are not complaining about being zoned out of their neighborhood for elementary (to Barcroft rather than Carlin Springs) or high school (to W-L). Generally, they don't complain. Unless someone with a petition knocks on their door and tells them people want to throw them out of their current homes and schools. But the families with bright kids are quietly directed to option programs or given transfers so that their kids can have a better chance. It happens, it just stinks that even the teachers who are doing this know what the deal is, and that no kid is better served in a high poverty segregated neighborhood school. [/quote]

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