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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school board has only minimal ways to reduce FARMS rates, that is mainly decided by the county boards affordable housing policy.  By far the easiest way to get inequitable FARMS rate under control is for the board to change AH policy to emphasize quality (build anywhere but the pike/Buchanan) over the current policy of quanitity[/quote]

Yes, everyone knows the CB is to blame.  It's the CB's fault for making decisions the same way the SB makes them:  catering to small interest groups like hard-core "quanitity is most imperative" affordable housing advocates pushing for more and more and more in the same south Arlington neighborhoods.

Ok, got it.  But that does not mean the SB can't do anything about the FRL rates in schools.  SB makes boundaries and despite Arlingtonians entitlement to the closest school if it suits them, there are many ways boundaries can be made.  All across the country, jurisdictions have implemented policies to help minimize the segregation in their schools that results from segregated neighborhoods.  But Arlington "liberals" buckle down and insist those things are unfair, inefficient, social-engineering, and morally reprehensible.

Fact is, the CB is more limited in its ability to "social engineer" residential by-right development than the SB is limited to mitigate the impacts of existing housing patterns.  With the exception of using race to determine admissions, the SB has the freedom to make boundaries in whatever manner it wants or needs.  Everything we do - all policies, all pushback to proposals, finger-pointing and waiting for the other guy to change their policy first - is social engineering.  We have social engineered the segregation in our County and in our schools. [/quote]

Amen.[/quote]

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