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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what’s the answer just let Drew fail and continue segregation and redlining? [/quote]

Did you have a suggestion? We’re all ears.[/quote]

DP, but how about drawing boundaries that disrupt the segregation?
Or implementing a countywide ranking system for elementary school enrollment that disrupts the segregation?
And how about the County Board changing its affordable housing approach and stopping its modern day version of "segregation and redlining"?
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This is the approved AH master plan.  Page number 42 has the distribution for the next 2 decades.

https://arlingtonva.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/12/AHMP-Published.pdf

As far as I know, APS states they don’t have money to do bussing and that’s one of the reasons for the neighborhood schools.  Someone else may know more on this topic.

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This merely provides the current rationale for the segregation.  The previous poster was asking for solutions.  CHANGE is the solution.  Changing the affordable housing master plan.  Changing the utter dependence on the non-profit affordable housing developers to provide the affordable housing for the County and allowing them to continue putting more where it already is.  Changing the public transit system to facilitate its use in getting kids and families to and from schools and just accepting that you're gonna have to pay for transportation, just like you have to pay for teachers.

As for the reasons for neighborhood schools, one of them is anti-diversity attitudes.  "walkability!" predominates every boundary discussion because nobody wants to be districted to a "lesser" or "worse" school. 
And people just like neighborhood schools.  Budget is one of the excuses for not having to do any of the other things to desegregate the schools.  They won't eliminate the option programs and their associated transportation costs.  If we're so dire on transportation budget, we should be eliminating countywide programs or eliminating transportation for them.
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True integration on the elementary level requires making the logistics of life harder for a large number of people, both low income and not. Let’s start with a lottery for high school first. That could actually happen.[/quote]

People adapt.  If the system were something different, people moving here would have still participated in it.  It's the process of change that people oppose.  Nobody likes going outside their comfort zone.  But everyone going out of their comfort zone is essential for actual solutions.  It's just pathetic that the opposition is "it's too inconvenient for me and my lifestyle" and even more pathetic when the rich people use "it's too inconvenient for the poor people" as the opposition argument to keep things the way they like them for themselves.[/quote]

Arlington parents of all backgrounds have said over and over in surveys, public comment, etc. how important neighborhood schools (ie proximity) is to them. When you have two working parents, pick up at aftercare on the other side of the county just isn't feasible. That's more important to most parents than uprooting the entire system to balance numbers. Sorry, that's the truth. Start with the high school kids for the grand lottery experiment. If it goes well, move to the middle schoolers. Only then can you attempt the full lottery elementary idea. [/quote]
Then maybe we should end options programs [/quote]

AGREE 1000% OPTION PROGRAMS SHOULD END. People want neighborhood schools. Ending options would end families opting out of their neighborhood schools and would help rebuild neighborhood schools and reduce overcrowding. [/quote]

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