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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

Life isn't all about property values.

-Yorktown parent

Also, on the list of Things I'm Not Worried About: the rate of increase of the value of my house in 22201.

I do worry about what the Whiny White Haves are doing to Arlington as a community.

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My house's value has more to do with the fact that it's walkable to metro than whether it's zoned W-L or Yorktown. Metro's woes concern me more on that front. I'd rather have W-L because it's walkable, but whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

Life isn't all about property values.

-Yorktown parent

Also, on the list of Things I'm Not Worried About: the rate of increase of the value of my house in 22201.

I do worry about what the Whiny White Haves are doing to Arlington as a community.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

You know what? Fuck off. Not everyone wants to be in an all white school. We are a minority family and prefer living near wl versus moving further north. You shouldn't be so bitter because you are stuck in South Arlington.

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Ladies and Gentlemen: white privilege! How nice that your home's value doesn't matter to your personal wealth.

Ladies and Gentlemen: White delusional entitlement! Not only must the value of my house increase, but it must do so as rapidly as possible, and that is best ensured by being zoned to a school full of rich white kids.

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Ladies and Gentlemen: white privilege! How nice that your home's value doesn't matter to your personal wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

Life isn't all about property values.

-Yorktown parent

Ladies and Gentlemen: white privilege! How nice that your home's value doesn't matter to your personal wealth.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

Life isn't all about property values.

-Yorktown parent

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

Life isn't all about property values.

-Yorktown parent

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure the people at W-L paying lip service to the idea that they should be upset at the prospect of moving to Yorktown will get over it when their property values increase.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder why they created an additional option for Yorktown but not for Wakefield?

I think the demographics/economics really limit their options for on the Wakefield front. In particular - it is my suspicion that the staff is operating under an implicit mandate to not make Wakefield more minority and/or more FARMs. I think the only way they can meet that goal is to reach north of 50.

Thank god. I had hoped that would be the case and am really heartened to see this. Of course all of this handwringing about FARMS kids would go away, if they would bus 10% of Wakefield's current impoverished population to Yorktown. It would put all three schools much more closely aligned demographically and be much more reflective of the county as a whole.

I appreciate the sentiment and tend to agree with it, but I do think when you start talking about busing some kids who are currently WL/Wakefield, esp WL, to Yorktown, you do get the kind of resistance from parents that people often cite as a reason to oppose busing. I've heard it myself, as recently as the meeting last week. While I think it's unfortunate for Yorktown that it is the way it is, my concern currently lies with making sure Wakefield and WL have balance as among each other. I'm heartened the proposals seem to take that into account as well.

therefore bussing PUs who are currently being bussed to WF or WL to YT makes most sense.

easiest is move YT Island PUs to WL/WF and then bus as many west side PUs as needed to YT to balance things out.

I'm the PP and just reporting what I heard: some parents in those west side PUs currently zoned for WL are concerned that their kids will stick out and/or feel out of place at Yorktown. Right or wrong, they expressed discomfort at the idea and that's a real concern that even those of us who favor balance, including me, should acknowledge.[/quote

I can understand that. We are a wl family who could get moved up to Yorktown and don't feel thrilled about it even if our income level is closer to those Yorktown families. We are hoping for more SES balance at wl. If course all of this might become moot when the 2022 class starts and they built that huge office building next to wl.