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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Barrett has been the subject of many discussions on this board, mainly as an example of an excellent, diverse public school with high levels of economically disadvantaged and limited-English proficiency kids but high achievement levels that upper middle class parents have grown to love and support. I had not seen the Parents magazine article but was curious to look up the latest SOL scores and compared them to Taylor ES just for kicks.

While Taylor scored higher in the "all" category for each subject, when you compare "white" students at Barrett to white students at Taylor, The Barrett students actually scored higher than Taylor students in English, Math, Writing, and History, and only one point lower in Science.

This is by no means a dis on Taylor, it just shows that when you compare apples to apples, kids can, and do, get a good education in many Arlington schools, not just the ones that are further north. For all the FARMS nay-sayers, Barrett has 53%of students receiving free and reduced lunch and is a Title 1 school. Taylor, by comparison, has 3.5% free/reduced lunch, and frankly that number was higher than I thought it would be.

Way to go Barrett![/quote]

thanks for pointing out that low-achieving white students do exist...[/quote]

What, pray tell, is that supposed to mean?

Barrett, Taylor, and frankly all white North Arlington elementary students uniformly had SOL pass rates from the mid90s to 100 percent...I don't see how that could even possibly be viewed as "low-achieving."

I don't even know what kind of point you are trying to make.[/quote]

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