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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]not just those who sound, look, dress exactly like them.  [/quote]

Because if ATS is anything, it's a haven for free spirits. [/quote]

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Sure, that's what I meant. Tucking in your shirt = all same. But please, continue to deflect from your defense of neighborhood schools. You're not fooling anybody in 2016. We know why you love your "walkable neighborhood school." Same reason your parents did in 1974.  :roll: [/quote]

Not pp, but what is wrong with neighborhood schools?  I don't see racism in l[b]iking your kids to be in school with their friends from the neighborhood, or liking being able to walk to school on a regular basis rather than having to drive a long way [/b]to get there.  [/quote]

Look, I get that. But our neighborhoods are very segregated, and while that may not be something you intentionally sought out, you are passively accepting this reality, which will damage us all in the long run. That's why I have a problem, in general, with the concept of "walkable" "neighborhood" schools. It doesn't help that those words are code that anyone who is old enough to remember the 1970's recognizes.

Anyway maybe making this new school a choice program, that could be open to anyone who wanted to apply, regardless of their zipcode, would be one step in the right direction. It's practical, because it could address overcrowding in both north and south. At the same time, this is not taking away YOUR neighborhood school. It's adding a school that does not yet exist. I don't care where they build it. But I'm tired of every neighborhood trying to extract their pound of flesh, when we should be thinking of the common good. [/quote]

People take issue with choicing out of a 10 school for what they perceive as a weak reason. Yes, your kids were zoned to a very homogenized school. South Arlington kids are too. The difference is, your homogenized school can afford any field trip a teacher dreams up and all sorts of enrichment. That doesn't even take into account the amount of available volunteers and resources wealthy parents bring to the table. The kids at your neighborhood school are being groomed for college and having flyers for robotics camp tucked into their backpacks end of day. In the homogenized south Arlington school the flyer is for food assistance, and the PTA is weak at best , and being investigated by the authorities for embezzlement at worst. 
There are enough bright kids south of 50 to keep ATS's scores very high. They don't need to be propped up by north Arlington students, Patrick Henry is proof of that. The economically disadvantaged students applying  are self selecting and certain to have a greater chance of success. 
So, you should be flippant about taking a spot from a child in south Arlington.

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Who are you to judge what school is best for the PP's children or the reasons she may have for entering a lottery that SHE HAS EVERY RIGHT to enter??? [/quote]

I'm a tax paying Arlingtonian who doesn't agree with how the ATS lottery works. I think I summed up my judgement of her choices quite clearly. [/quote]

Then take it up with the school board whose rules you don't like, not someone who does what she thinks is best for her kids. [/quote]

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