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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sort of surprised there isn't some type of cottage industry cram schools in S Arlington for elem, they way people talk. Or there is and I just missed it?[/quote]

Huh?  [/quote]

After school learning enrichment. If so many people are complaining about the schools, why isn't (or is there) a market for after school enrichment to fill the gaps so that kids aren't behind for middle school?[/quote]

Not the PP you were responding to, but how could after school enrichment help kids who are missing out on daily instruction? If kids aren't keeping pace with kids in other parts of Arlington, what is an hour after school going to do? If half the schools are covering an entire year's worth of curriculum in a far more accelerated way (and I don't know that this is true, it's just what I've heard from a couple people who have moved or switched to option schools and found their kids who had been "advanced" were now "behind"), what type of enrichment do you envision that can replace daily instruction? Also, the schools where this might be an issue are also the ones whose PTAs do not have the $$ or organizational manpower to offer these enrichment programs. Again, I don't know that this is true, but it does seem that a couple high-needs schools have lower targets for their students, so students who could be learning might be missing out. This would include children from every demographic. My general observation is that, barring an educational impediment, kids will rise to the occasion. If you expect excellence, you will get excellence. [/quote]

I don't know, which is why I asked. You do raise valid points, I am asking if there were efforts or ways to address the problem. For example, if you can't get into a choice school, [b]can't move[/b], but you don't want your child to be behind when they move to middle school, do you supplement with such a program? It would nice if a PTA sponsored something like this, but I assumed it would be something commercial, like Kumon, that a family would pursue on their own. It would not replace daily instruction, but would add to it.

If daily instruction is so bad that the kids aren't being educated, that is a whole different issue. From what I have heard, no one is complaining about that, but rather N Arlington schools seem to be ahead in subject matter, versus kids in the South not learning anything.[/quote]

The thing is, a family can always move if they want to badly enough. It might be expensive and inconvenient, but moving is always an option. [/quote]

That's what the SB is praying all these pesky SA families do.

That is essentially the county and school boards attitude to school quality. The only people they believe are entitled to live here are the impoverished and the wealthy. And they are supposed to live in south and north Arlington, respectively, so their political priorities dont conflict. It's the people in between they believe should just F off already and move to fairfax so that our elected leaders look like they have a clue about governing.

The appearance of gov competence completely foundered once office vacancy went up and people stopped moving to fairfax to raise families. Now the sb and cb has to do something other that cut checks for nice to haves and they have zero experience. Housing is now so expensive here that people who would've lived in NA 20 years ago now live in SA, and not inexpensively. Guess what? people who spend 600k on a starter home expect a school to match. This problem is not going to go away.[/quote]

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