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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]They don't expect these issues, because they see no differences between the schools. All children will thrive at any arlington school. They all have excellent faculty Etc etc..[/b]
At least they were responsible enough to prioritize demographics.

And to the above poster who mentioned moving the same number of each group to each school- that won't work. You can't add more to a school that is at capacity. [/quote]

Then they are really out of touch with their constituents. Because while I do not disagree that a student can get an excellent education at any of the three schools, there is an obvious and palpable sense within the general public (not south Arlington) that Wakefiled is inferior. And part of me is glad that they were witness to the way many regularly denigrate Wakefield and the students who attend. They need to address this, and it won't be by capitulating to those who feel they are "entitled" to something more because of a real estate transaction. [/quote]

Jeez- just check out that Arlnow comments. Someone referred to Wakefield as " the unwashed masses"  and the "people who work with their hands". It's bad yo. [/quote]

I prefer the somewhat ironic tone of those comments to "drugs, gangs, and prostitution" which was heard last night.[/quote]

:shock: say what now? Seriously, is that on the link? What the what? Are they saying those things are at Wakefield? ARE those things at Wakefield? No. really? No. really? [/quote]

This was said at the meeting last night, a concern expressed by a parent. I don't have kids at Wakefield but have no reason to believe those things are true other than reputationally. [/quote]

I thought I heard a Spanish-speaking woman say that through the interpreter last night.  I don't know if she was making those comments herself or if she was responding to them--it was hard to hear the interpreter, and I wasn't there for the entire discussion that preceded it. [/quote]

I'm the PP. I understand enough Spanish to believe she was saying she had heard those things. She was a W-L parent so I don't think she would have had firsthand knowledge but rather was expressing concerns. I found it not a little ironic, since I have to imagine her child or children fits within the stereotype that makes people believe those things about Wakefield in the first place. [/quote]

Ya know. When those Wakefield kids came by for tag day I thought, " drugs, gangs,  and prostitution" that's what you're shaking me down for! Now get off my lawn, you epaulette flaunting ginger ( kid was a red head) and take that very adorable, but ethnically hard to pin down, girl-next-door chorister with you!

But leave an envelope, I'll write a check.[/quote]

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