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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So when these PUs push back can we call them racist?[/quote]
Call them whatever you want.  Who cares?  APS needs to get a backbone and just make boundaries that suit APS' needs and goals and the interests of the students.[/quote]

I think it's pretty clear that making Drew very high FRL and Abingdon a lower (but still not low, frankly) FRL school is the situation that suits APS best. Is it best for the students? There will be some whose needs aren't met, but there is an argument to be made for having a community school with wrap around social services for families at Drew like they do at Carlin Springs. That's not going to be a popular argument with the "equity" lens we are supposedly using, but it's certainly expedient. I don't know what the right answer is. [/quote]

Isn’t this proposal a pretty good idea, though, in that it sends Claremont, which is almost entirely SFHs, to Drew? They’re keeping the APAH property at Abingdon, along with Fairlington. Am I missing something? At worst, the kids don’t ever materialize at Drew and all go option or private, but that still solves the capacity problem for Abingdon without exacerbating the poverty at Drew.[/quote]

They conveniently leave the FRL rate out of the proposal info. They gave us K-3 demographics and EL status. At 68% English learner and 75% non-white (which is somewhat correlated to income in Arlington) it's not looking like a particularly affluent bunch. https://www.apsva.us/engage/fall-2021-boundary-process-abingdon-drew/

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