New APS Elementary Boundaries
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Anonymous
Is this for real? I haven’t watched the video because I’m so sick of this process, but if she legit said that, it’s horrifying. |
Anonymous
As a direct quote, no. In essence? Yes. She basically said well-documented research that shows economic segregation is bad doesn't apply in Arlington. |
Anonymous
Because Arlington gives those students what they need. |
Anonymous
Oh, and because the overall end graduation rates and % of those students going on to college are so high. The ends justifies the means. |
Anonymous
It wasn’t bold, it was the easy way out. They’re not going where you send them anyway, certainly not to Drew. They couldn’t send only some CH families or it looks even worse, so they send mostly all of them and pretend like there are those other people that sort of fill their old school. |
Anonymous
Has she ever provided this well documented research BECAUSE it doesn't seem like it is working for the schools or the crime rate. |
Anonymous
DP. She said there is a study on the APS website. I poked around a little this morning, but it's a big website and I don't know where to look. If anyone knows what she's talking about, please post it. I'd be interested to read it, and may email her if I can't find it. I do know of the Fairfax study that looks at economic segregation and tries to ID a tipping point. I can't imagine Fairfax doesn't also well-resource its schools, though I do know that class sizes tend to be bigger there. |
Anonymous
| Yes, if she is making the claim the data don't apply here she needs to show us the numbers. |
Anonymous
Cody families are active duty and DoD civilians who use a school-age program in the same building as the day care on Ft Myer. It has the same early start time the day care center/ preschool has (6am). It’s also heavily subsidized by the DoD so it provides dirt cheap child care for those lucky enough to get off the wait list and presumably then their younger siblings. The families who attend Cody are separate from the active duty families who actually live in the Ft Myer housing. Unlike a lot of bigger military installations, very few families actually live on Ft Myer. Going back years, kids who attend Cody and who also live in Arlington (anywhere, as long as it’s Arlington) were able to attend either Long Branch or Henry. This has created a loophole to “option” to one of those schools, even if they lived in a Drew or Barcroft zone (for instance). I’m not sure if APS just “forgot” about this arrangement, but it created this group of kids they weren’t accounting for, but were providing 2 buses for. Not sure how that flew under the radar but there it is. |
Anonymous
Do you remember roughly when she said it in the meeting? I'd like to hear the statement for myself. |
Anonymous
Cody families are active duty and DoD civilians who use a school-age program in the same building as the day care on Ft Myer. It has the same early start time the day care center/ preschool has (6am). It’s also heavily subsidized by the DoD so it provides dirt cheap child care for those lucky enough to get off the wait list and presumably then their younger siblings. The families who attend Cody are separate from the active duty families who actually live in the Ft Myer housing. Unlike a lot of bigger military installations, very few families actually live on Ft Myer. Going back years, kids who attend Cody and who also live in Arlington (anywhere, as long as it’s Arlington) were able to attend either Long Branch or Henry. This has created a loophole to “option” to one of those schools, even if they lived in a Drew or Barcroft zone (for instance). I’m not sure if APS just “forgot” about this arrangement, but it created this group of kids they weren’t accounting for, but were providing 2 buses for. Not sure how that flew under the radar but there it is. |
Anonymous
2:14:50 |
Anonymous
PP again. I think this must be the study: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Longitudinal-Analysis-of-Performance-of-Students-in-Prekindergarten-Programs-Arlington-Public-Schools.pdf |
Anonymous
That report is very interesting / basically in many of the scenarios Pre-K doesn't always make that much difference. As for Montessori vs VPI, I wonder if having some MC/UMC children in the classroom helps raise the scores for the ED students. |
Anonymous
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If that's the report it doesn't address the question at all. We want to look at how ED students do based on the concentration of poverty at their schools. That's what research says matters.
Also, just looking at PreK vs. non-PreK is weird when APS PreK is largely only for ED families. The non-preK families likely all did PreK outside of APS. That's why they test better, and that's not surprising. Plus this study is 10 years old. |