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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue with several south arlington schools is the high number of poor kids and kids learning English. These kids need extra attention from the school. The teachers focus more time on getting them to learn, less time on other students. Less expected of all students. I have seen it now in 3 elementary schools. [/quote]

Please elaborate. This is a hot topic, with the removal of Randolph's principal. 
I'm especially concerned about low expectations across the board. Everyone says the curriculum is the same across all of Arlington...[/quote]

My kids have gone to two south Arlington schools. I don't think it's "less expected" in the "soft bigotry of low expectations" sense. It's more like "kids come in less prepared, and we're realistic about how far we can get them in a year." What a kindergarten class does at Hoffman Boston is very different from what a kindergarten class does at Taylor because of the skills the kids come in with--reading instruction is teaching them to decode and not teaching them to read with fluency because they have learned to decode (and are comfortable with English) at home or in preschool. It's not that the kids in different schools make less progress in a year, its that the average starting points are different. [/quote]

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