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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d make Claremont a neighborhood school and move immersion to Drew. Immersion is a draw for many Fairlington/Shirlington families. [/quote]

Making Drew an option school isn’t politically viable right now. It was mostly option Montessori until a few years ago and there was a big push to make it a neighborhood school to right the wrong done generations ago via bussing. Making it option again would be insensitive/racist/inequitable/etc and would be a whole cluster. [/quote]

I understand that the community was wary of the Montessori program siphoning resources away from the neighborhood program.

I also get that it’s easy to quickly defend any changes to Drew as racist or harmful, but meanwhile APS is steadily building a new map of segregation and inequity. Drew can’t sit at 80% occupied while other APS schools become over crowded, especially schools with high FARMs. [/quote]

The Green Valley old timers would say to just redraw the lines and fill it up... and they wouldn’t be wrong. There is an overcrowded school zone bordering a school zone that has empty seats. The answer is very straightforward. As for the overall segregation, that’s inevitable as long as we have neighborhood schools and the county board keeps approving 300+ unit CAFs in the same handful of places. [/quote]

[b]Maybe the point about creating segregation will resonate with the county board. [/b]I just don’t think they care about schools, but maybe they care about perpetuating segregation (or rather they could me motivated to stop perpetuating segregation).[/quote]

This is the most hysterical comment I have ever read on DCUM.  The County Board doesn't give a crap about segregation - it created and perpetuates it!  It's the County Board that continues to push and support concentration of low-income housing in the same neighborhoods and has no genuine interest in doing otherwise.  The County Board argues it's more efficient for social services (just like APS argues). The County Board touts "all Arlington schools are great" (just like APS does) and "you can get an excellent education in any Arlington school" (without distinguishing that those 'excellent educations' are vastly different across the County and are NOT equal in content or depth or breadth or social experience or opportunities).

A County Board that supports segregated neighborhoods isn't going to care about segregated schools.[/quote]

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