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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is that there's only so much land in Arlington, the schools are where they are and the people are where they are. The affordable housing is built where it is, and the school board had no say in that. I wouldn't have been anywhere near as nice about "listening about the community staying together" if I had been drawing the maps. Minimizing the need for buses, proximity to home, and some safety concerns would have been it.  I live in gerrymandered North Arlington and my kid goes to a school miles in the wrong direction when I can walk to one school and drive past two others to get there. Can't wait for them to wipe it out, although my kid will be done by then.  I don't care if my kid goes to school with rich kids, poor kids, white kids, or brown kids.  They're all good schools. [/quote]

LOL, you are so out of touch I think you're just a sa parent making fun of clueless NA parents who can't understand how good they've got it[/quote]

So what exactly should they have done that would have been beneficial for all of SA and not just whichever little hamlet you're in? [/quote]

Since you asked, APS can't fix the housing policy decisions dictated to SA by NA elites that don't want AH in their neighborhoods, by I do things the school board and staff should not have bailed on the option school rezoning that was planned for this year as soon as some lawyered-up NA PTAs started whining. Option school locations are one of the only tools we have for balancing farms rates.[/quote]

Actually, if this process showed anything it is that the high rate of UMC families going to option schools make it next to impossible to draw boundaries knowing what FARS rates will be. Option schools make bringing down FARMS rates that much harder. If everyone had one option, the few UMC families in SA would be better dispersed into the neighborhood schools and not at Claremont, ATS And Montessori. [/quote]

I said this on another thread, but why do UMC families in SA have to go to their neighborhood schools when UMC families in NA get to go to choice schools without getting bashed? [/quote]

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