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[quote=Anonymous]I hate to say it, because with live walking distance, but everyone we know who has or has recently had a kid at Gunston is very unhappy, unless they were in Montessori or Immersion. This is especially true for parents of boys. There seem to be a fair number of rough boys in the school, and they drag better-behaved kids down with them. There is also no tracking except in math, and in, say, your English class it's not unusual to have kids ranging from a 3rd grade reading level to a college reading level. How do you deal with that as a teacher? It's tough. The new policies about not giving grades and not penalizing for late homework etc seem to have made things much worse. The principal is very nice, but the school could use new leadership... The people we know with boys in 5th grade are panicking over whether they should try their luck, move to private (if they can afford it), pray for HB, hope their are openings in other Arlington middle schools and drive their kids there, or move out of the zone... We know people who have done all of the above. We have a boy who is getting toward his middle school years, and we aren't even seriously considering Gunston.[/quote]

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