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[quote=Anonymous]Here's a thought.  ATS, Claremont and Key are choice schools and they are already mixed in terms of demographics.  If ASFS being a "special" school is causing so many problems, why don't you take away the extra science education and just have it be the regular neighborhood school that it mostly is.  Most people at this point probably aren't buying there for the science; they're buying there because the test scores are high and it's close-in to DC and Clarendon, and they're not interested in Key immersion.

Then you could put another "choice" school in South Arlington, giving preference to South Arlington addresses.    Then put a science/tech magnet program into one of the South Arlington middles and into Wakefield.

That, plus more affordable housing along Lee Hwy or wherever else, should help balance things a bit.  But you're never going to get a truly integrated county.  Wherever you go in this country (and others), there are richer and poorer areas.  In my Kansas hometown, there are richer, whiter schools and poorer schools with more FARMS and more minorities.  The real estate in the richer school boundaries is expensive for the area and almost solely SFH.  The poorer schools include lots of apartments, townhouses and smaller, older homes in their boundaries.  I think it's just harder for people here to accept that even if they're spending $500K on a house, that doesn't put them in the richer school boundary, because anywhere else, $500K is a lot of money.[/quote]

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