Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: the only real cover up - is that they don't have room for this many kids. Not right now and certainly not in the future.
They can't even be concerned about demographics.
It's total bullshit that people are choosing to send their kids to ATS instead of Jamestown or wherever, but if we crunch the numbers- they need those Kids to choice out in order for those north Arlington elementaries to stay at or under capacity.
Each neighborhood has a certain number of kids admitted to ATS correct? Similar to HB?
What do those schools look like if all the kids stay put?

No, it's straight lottery with no set-asides for geographic areas. Just luck of the draw. Allegedly, anyway.

Anonymous wrote: the only real cover up - is that they don't have room for this many kids. Not right now and certainly not in the future.
They can't even be concerned about demographics.
It's total bullshit that people are choosing to send their kids to ATS instead of Jamestown or wherever, but if we crunch the numbers- they need those Kids to choice out in order for those north Arlington elementaries to stay at or under capacity.
Each neighborhood has a certain number of kids admitted to ATS correct? Similar to HB?
What do those schools look like if all the kids stay put?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington is a small county and it would be easy to balance both the school demographics and the allocation of resources here if the powers that be in North Arlington were so inclined. They aren't, and that won't change any time soon.

Not by bussing. This county is all about walkablility.

When it provides cover for tolerating disparities, perhaps.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington is a small county and it would be easy to balance both the school demographics and the allocation of resources here if the powers that be in North Arlington were so inclined. They aren't, and that won't change any time soon.

Not by bussing. This county is all about walkablility.

Anonymous wrote:Arlington is a small county and it would be easy to balance both the school demographics and the allocation of resources here if the powers that be in North Arlington were so inclined. They aren't, and that won't change any time soon.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's South Arlington, folks, not the south side of Chicago. The schools are fine, at a minimum. Plus, in a few years, all the white women forcing their husbands to move to Arlington will have effectively seized the South Arlington schools and transformed them in their images. Adios, diversity and hello conformist tools.

Oh FFS. What are you even talking about? I wanted to live in PG County, but couldn't get my husband on board. So we compromised with South Arlington.

And in my worldview "diversity" doesn't mean 80% and higher poverty or 80% ELL students. That's not "diversity," it's segregation.

This isn't just about children of privilege in South Arlington. It's about ALL of our kids and how their needs are not being met to the best of our ability. Peer to peer interactions should not be discounted. Not because wealthy or white children are superior and all should conform to their ways, but BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. What better way to teach our kids this lesson than by allowing them the opportunity to be educated alongside children from life circumstances that are different from their own. If you want to promulgate fear and mistrust of the "other" there is no better way than to continue down the path we're on.

The schools in south Arlington are good. Snowflakes will do just fine.

Anonymous wrote:SOUTH ARLINGTON LIBERATION ARMY!

Because the kids of south Arlington can literally go pound rocks.

https://www.arlnow.com/2016/04/12/parents-calling-for-improvements-to-rocky-yard-at-elementary-school/

Viva SALA!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's South Arlington, folks, not the south side of Chicago. The schools are fine, at a minimum. Plus, in a few years, all the white women forcing their husbands to move to Arlington will have effectively seized the South Arlington schools and transformed them in their images. Adios, diversity and hello conformist tools.

Oh FFS. What are you even talking about? I wanted to live in PG County, but couldn't get my husband on board. So we compromised with South Arlington.

And in my worldview "diversity" doesn't mean 80% and higher poverty or 80% ELL students. That's not "diversity," it's segregation.

This isn't just about children of privilege in South Arlington. It's about ALL of our kids and how their needs are not being met to the best of our ability. Peer to peer interactions should not be discounted. Not because wealthy or white children are superior and all should conform to their ways, but BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. What better way to teach our kids this lesson than by allowing them the opportunity to be educated alongside children from life circumstances that are different from their own. If you want to promulgate fear and mistrust of the "other" there is no better way than to continue down the path we're on.