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Call me someone "trying to be a liberal" but we also like the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity. We are minority and so are our kids. We toured the neighborhood school and quickly realized that our kids would be almost the only people who look like them in their classrooms. We also heard nightmarish stories from our neighbors about competition starting early for certain types of clothes, vacations, etc at the neighborhood school. We liked the atmosphere at ATS better. 
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So you claim to "like" ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, and yet you apparently moved into one of the most wealthy and most white neighbors in North Arlington. And then you were shocked to find out that there weren't many minorities at your local elementary school? Sorry, that doesn't entitle anyone from North Arlington to have access to an alternative choice program (and I am saying that as a North Arlington parent). [/quote]

Actually, we moved into our neighborhood a LONG time ago as newlyweds, well before the prices skyrocketed, well before there was a big differential between N. and S. Arlington, and well before we even thought about having children. It would be pretty expensive now to move and silly just to prove worthiness of ethnic diversity to someone like you. The school is county wide. That means open to everyone in the county. We can disagree about that, and obviously do, [/quote]

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