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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Another former SA crusader here. Gave up. VOICE just summons the S. Arl. Latino lobby by telling them that those advocating for fair housing distribution think their kids are dumb and don't want them around.  Seriously.  [b]Instead of explaining that their schools are perform poorly[/b] and they are stuck in a segregated community with little hope of improvement. Because VOICE is tied up with APAH and the like and they make money off this housing.  See the article in Arl Now today about income disparity between S. and N. Arlington. If you tell the SB that you don't want 80% FRL in your school district they will tell you that everyone has a right to walkable schools and that you are racist to suggest that Drew families shouldn't have that. Laughable in this case since they appear to be gerrymandering  long fingers to maximize the FRL lunch rate at Drew. But you watch and see.[/quote]

This is the problem - nobody should be saying this.  Yes, test scores are much lower; but these schools truly, in fact, are not poor quality schools.  The maxim "all our schools are good" is technically accurate.  The mantra should be instead "all our schools are not equal."  Yes, I know first hand because my kids attend one of these "poorly performing schools" and I guarantee you that the quality of their teachers and the school are indeed good -- but their academic experience is not the same as it would be elsewhere.

Nobody has a RIGHT to anything but a free public education.  There is no RIGHT to a walkable school - not everyone CAN have a walkable school, unless you're going to put a school in every square mile.  We, for instance, have a walkable school - but it isn't our neighborhood school and we bus to another one a mile away.

AND nobody is even suggesting that Drew families should be bussed anywhere or that they should not walk to the school in their neighborhood.  We're talking about the kids outside the walk zone.

The minorities who CARE that they are segregated and don't want that for their kids have opted out - see Campbell and immersion, and the Latino parents on the west end who did NOT want their kids to go to WAKEFIELD because they believed W-L provides a more positive environment for their kids.  (The accuracy of that perception is a different discussion.)

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