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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jamestown has a FARMS rate of 4.57% (county average 30.13%) and is 79% white (county average 44.1%). So yeah, those are the stats. Do what you want with them. [/quote]

Arlington county is 70% white, per the census. Not sure where you get 44.1% but you are wrong[/quote]

It’s because some people are using the APS stats.  This is a discussion about the public schools so some people are using the demographics of the student population.  A PP pointed this out.[/quote]

They shouldn’t though — it’s misleading. The county figures are a much better comparison and desirable benchmark.[/quote]

Why?[/quote]

[b]Because schools should reflect their communities.[/b] The issue with dramatically different demographics within the schools is a different policy question. [/quote]

The fact is that only 44% of APS students are white but 70% of the population of Arlington County is white. Do you see that as a problem? I don't really get where you're going with this. [/quote]

Yea, it’s a problem, just not in the way you seem to think it is.

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Nobody knows what you’re talking about. Are you uncomfortable posting your views anonymously online?[/quote]

Sure. If you have high concentrations of certain students in lower-performing schools and that diverges sharply from the community's demographic profile overall, that's a different policy issue than the school issues. It's an anomaly, and potentially a public policy problem -- with housing, immigration, law enforcement, income inequality, whatever. But it's artificial to insist the school system overall must distribute demographics based on the student population when there is this anomaly rather than the community as a whole because the known solutions (i.e. forced busing) have failed in the past.

It isn't an issue of aging populations/grandmas versus young population. It's an issue of how young people are distributed in the community.

Shorter: Ghettos are bad.[/quote]

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