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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You will like Williamsburg though. Great school. [/quote]

I've heard nothing good about it. No thanks. [/quote]

I haven’t heard anything good about Swanson lately though. [/quote]

I'm pp and we're zoned for Hamm[/quote]
I saw that.  It was disappointing how many kids right by Taylor/hamm will now be moved to Williamsburg.  [/quote]

And it was the Taylor families who fought so hard to reopen Stratford as the new middle school, now Dorothy Hamm. Only a very small section of Taylor families along Langston Blvd will remain at Dorothy Hamm.

Also with the draft boundaries, the middle schools will become even more segregated with Williamsburg becoming more wealthy and white. Lower income students will be further concentrated in all the other middle schools. I realize demographics will not factor into any of these boundary changes, [b]but the proposed boundaries run counter to the diversity the Arlington community claims to value.[/b] [/quote]

Every boundary process during the 18 years I've been an APS parent has "run counter to the diversity the Arlington community claims to value." Where  have you been?!
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I can't with these arguments that people trot out when it's convenient for them.  School segregation is due to housing and zoning policies.  If you fought Missing Middle and many of you did, you are a hypocrite if now you're acting like you give a crap whether your school is wealthy and white.  Busing kids to create the perfect diverse school and not having neighborhood schools doesn't work for a lot of reasons.   It's not what anyone wants, including the communities you are "helping" if you bother to ask any people in these communities.  Lots of research out there on this.

If you actually care about these things and not just when it's going to affect where you go to school as a talking point to scold other people, get involved in County zoning and housing issues.  [/quote]

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