Reply to AEM post/discussion re racism and choice schools

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "AEM post/discussion re racism and choice schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My takeaway is that if you have enough money to buy a house in the wealthiest zip codes, you never have to worry about being called racist. 
[/quote]

You think so? I think it's more that you isolate yourself so much that you don't hear the people who call you racist because they aren't your fellow "flee from the south arlington schools" people. If you were to be a fly in south Arlington conversations, you would hear the racist accusations toward those wealthiest zip coders.[/quote]

This is so dumb to me. I live in N Arlington because both DH and I had jobs right along I-66/orange line corridor. South Arlington would not work for our commutes.

Real nice community you have in the south part of the county talking crap about people in different zip codes. FWIW I’ve never heard anyone in the North part of the county say bad things about the people living in the south part. [/quote]

This is hysterical.
The commute wouldn't work for you, but it works for egads of people in south Arlington? Where do you work? It might not be as straightforward a commute; but surely it would "work" because you're capable of figuring out how to make it work just like thousands of other people.
You either don't hear northern residents bad-mouthing the southies because y'all don't bother to talk about south arlington - since it's a separate world from yours; or you just aren't interacting with the ones who do. Not all southies think all northies are racist a-holes and not all northies think all southies are ignorant homeless criminals. But if your commute from south Arlington would have worked for you, I'm sure you would have been equally happy to attend Carlin Springs or Randolph.
[/quote]

Jobs were in Fair Lakes and Ballston. In fact a lot of jobs in VA happen to be more concentrated along the 66 corridor so it makes sense that people want to live in Vienna/Falls Church/N Arlington.

The underlying issue is a development one. The county has concentrated lower income areas and that trickles down to where employers put job centers. Blaming individual families for choosing where to live based on factors outside their control is one way to go about it I guess. But I also have a lot of wealthy neighbors who are POC (black, Asian, + mixed families). Are they racist for wanting good commutes and schools that do not have the issues that come with higher poverty rates? Or is it only white families that are bad for this?

The underlying issue is fixing the county’s pattern of development instead of trying to force people through the use of school boundaries or judging them for choosing option schools. FWIW I support denser development along areas close to metro and would like to see more SES mixture in the north part of the county and I know plenty of other friends/neighbors who don’t exactly love raising kids in a concentration of wealth.

But we need to stop asking schools and individual families to take on the brunt of fixing societal issues. If you want to call a bunch of people you don’t know in a different zip code racist though, I hope that helps you feel better.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics