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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't this a blue county?  Didn't we vote for 'hope' and 'change' a few years ago?  Let's use this boundary change to make all the middle schools great.[/quote]

Don’t kid yourself. It won’t. Even if these planning units move, Kenmore will still be over 40% FARMS and Williamsburg will be less than 10%. If Arlington really believes what you are spouting, everyone would be on a bus and it would be total desegregation. The moment a kid from Country Club Hills is at Kenmore or a kid from Donaldson Run is at Wakefield, the. I’ll believe that APS is really about demographic diversity. Otherwise, it’s all lip service, sacrificing the good of a group of kids so that everyone else can feel better about themselves.

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I’d be really pleased to see Kenmore around 40% FARMs. That would be a meaningful impact to the make up of that school. Ideally we’d have schools that reflected the student make up of the entire county, but I would consider 40% a step in the right direction.
I fully anticipate the SB will chicken out and placate the “walkers”. Perhaps there will be some sort of hybrid option that keeps Kenmore’s farms number from rising ( as was projected in some of the presented options) and they will consider that a win, which is ridiculous.[/quote] I love how you put walkers in quotes, as if it's not the truth. Have some balls and bus in the rich people who are already on busses to Swanson and Stratford and send them to Kenmore instead. But no, instead you target actual walkers to Swanson because they are middle class and easier targets. Cowardly, unecomical, and unfair. [/quote]

I don’t care who they send. Honestly I don’t. The walkers in these scenarios ( they aren’t up anymore, right?) were closer to Kenmore than bus riders from elsewhere. There have been plenty of strident voices on this thread bemoaning the amount of time kids spend on the bus. Seems like the DH and MM kids wouldn’t be spending as long on the bus as say, Lyon Park kids. If that’s incorrrect, please write to the SB. I’m looking for meaningful solutions that might actually be implemented. It seems unlikely that they will ship kids from Country Club Hills to Kenmore. If I thought it would be a possibility I would certainly advocate for it. I have no problem with my own neighborhood being redirected to Kenmore, if it has a meaningful impact on demographics. The school system has an obligation to not concentrate poverty. Perhaps this is a good exercise in empathy for some of you. I’ve read on more than one post how people scrimped and saved to move to DH and MM. Don’t you think families in South Arlington have done the same? Do they not have a say in the quality of their children’s education? 
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