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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do we get rid of 60-80% FRL neighborhood schools?  I think most folks would love to do this if you know how.  [b]Bussing children all over the county is not an option, however.[/quote][/b]

And that's the problem.  Folks are all for solving the problem - without using any solutions to solve the problem.
We ALREADY bus children all over the County for option programs - and probably more inefficiently than busing them for neighborhood schools would be because of the ridiculous bus pick-ups for very small #s of children from some areas opting into programs.

So, you eliminate high FRL schools in various ways:
1) you can do it in one fell swoop by changing to an all-choice system (Cambridge model); or 
2) with various other tools - note the plurality there, toolSSS - including busing children who are being bused to their neighborhood school now to a different assigned neighborhood school; eliminating geographical preferences for options schools was one piece the Board actually implemented; locate option schools in/near areas of concentrated low-income families so that they are more easily accessible and families more likely to apply; stop fighting weirdly-shaped boundaries and drop the idiotic "contiguity" principle; and push the County to stop adding CAF's in areas of schools that already have a high FRL% and push them TO build CAFs in areas with schools with low FRL%s.
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To whoever wrote this comment, will you please run for School Board on this platform? You will have to primary Reid but he is beatable. Many of us will back you. This is the thinking APS needs.[/quote]

Reid is the last board member who should be challenged if there is any interest at all in addressing high FRL schools.  He has been ineffective because he has NOT A SINGLE ALLY on this issue.  He needs colleagues who share his thinking, or who are at least not opposed to compromise and trying some bold ideas.

Maura McMahon already ran with this platform; but the ACDC establishment supported an ACDC player and choice program advocates inaccurately painted McMahon as anti-choice.  When it comes to equity and diversity, Arlington is simply all talk (because that's easy and makes you look like a good person) and no action (because people who have the best of everything are not really willing to risk even the slightest change in their blessings and perception of being at the top.[/quote]

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