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Don't assume PP is a troll.  It is an interesting point.  For everyone on here calling for the importance of diversity and the benefit to the disadvantaged kids at Wakefield, have you already submitting the transfer request to have your child attend Wakefield even though you are zoned for Yorktown or W-L? There is capacity, so your transfer request would be approved.  It's very easy to be a liberal in far north Arlington and talk about the importance of diversity, but very hypocritical to not then live it when the opportunity exists.  
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Arlington county as a whole is about 30% economically disadvantaged, and so is W-L.

Wakefield is about 46%.
Yorktown is about 14%.

Can you see where the problem is? [/quote]

The real problem is that there are six elementary schools over 50% and six elementary schools under 5%. [/quote]

^^ That is de facto segregation. [/quote]

Which is illegal by law.  APS is above the law, it appears.  At least in Loudoun it wasn't allowed...[/quote]

What law do you believe APS is breaking?[/quote]

NP. Presumably the Constitution, as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment was cited by the Supreme Court in [i]Brown vs Board of Education[/i] when ruling that separate but equal schools were illegal.

Unfortunately, it was speaking of de jure segregation, not de facto segregation, so what Arlington is doing now is not illegal. But I think it is, as John Oliver pointed out last Sunday, bullshit to argue that de facto segregation (we're just doing it by neighborhood!) is a whole lot better than what Virginia was doing 50 years ago, if the end result is THE EXACT SAME. [/quote]

In case anyone want to watch the segment, it's on youtube. Very timely. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yiYCHMAlM

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So white students are nothing special, and need to get over their privilege, but it's critical for everyone else that they be rationed out to distant schools because...?[/quote]

That's in irrelevant question in Arlington, as there are no "distant" schools. More than half of the people in Arlington live within three miles of TWO high schools and the farthest cross-county trips to a high school (Crystal City to Yorktown, Chain Bridge to Wakefield) is eight miles. [/quote]

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