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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what’s the answer just let Drew fail and continue segregation and redlining? [/quote]

Did you have a suggestion? We’re all ears.[/quote]

DP, but how about drawing boundaries that disrupt the segregation?
Or implementing a countywide ranking system for elementary school enrollment that disrupts the segregation?
And how about the County Board changing its affordable housing approach and stopping its modern day version of "segregation and redlining"?
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Boundaries won’t work unless you make islands of rich kids to bring south and poor kids to bring north. The distribution just doesn’t work.

Countywide ranking system has the same problem as above. If you have quotas for income level some people are going to be bussed across the county by force and no one wants that (or wants to pay for it).

The county board loves affordable housing. It makes them feel good and makes the developers a ton of money. They aren’t going to stop. [/quote]

You're just making the same excuses APS and the County make.  You asked for suggestions. You're not genuinely interested if you're just going to take the same "it's too complicated or hard" attitude.  the CB can love affordable housing - I don't care.  But they can love it all over Arlington.  The problem is, the only love it where it is (which isn't in their neighborhoods or their kids' schools) - and that's precisely why they love it the way it is and have no interest in change.

Don't ask for solutions if you don't actually want any.  You should have asked for suggestions you'd be willing to approve of.[/quote]

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