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[quote=Anonymous]OP, really busing?  Can you be more creative?

Arlington is a wealthy county.  We should be making our own version of "Title 1" schools in Arlington, let's call them "Title Gondola" schools (because you want to raise the kids high in the sky).  NA parents will happily pay a bit more in taxes if the overall school systems improves and stops spinning its wheels with boundary rezoning to try and address equity.

Also,, improving underperforming schools will help increase property values, so its a true investment in the county.

1) FARMS rate over 40% or whatever you want to define.
2) Increase funding to those schools so that they lower the student teacher ratio to 17:1 or 16:1.
3) Staff extended day with credentialed/degreed tutors, open it to all students (not just working parents), and turn it into at least a 1 hr of small group or 1:1 tutoring/homework club.
4) All students must participate in a sport, with practices during gym time rather than the general ed PE, have each semester specialize in really developing that sports skill and rules, team sports would be especially helpful but that does get more complicated.
5) Weekly Friday night community events, with things like scrabble night, movie night with movies based on books, or cooking club where everyone learns how to make a new dish from scratch. [/quote]

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