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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10:18 - you missed my point.  I'm saying that if you populated a school solely with the same exact population of kids in the under-performing schools in Arlington, that school would be similarly under-performing.  Those kids would come to the new school with the same challenges they brought to their old school.  The scores at Jamestown and Discovery and others are higher than the schools with high FARMS and ESL because those kids are coming to school every day with fewer outside challenges.  ATS has a mix of those kids - some with outside challenges, some without.

I'm saying that it's generally not the underprivileged kids' parents complaining on this forum.  It's the parents who bought into Carlin Springs or Randolph or Barcroft hoping they could choice into ATS or Campbell or ASFS and then got upset because they couldn't.

Nobody is forcing anyone to live in Arlington.  I decided against living in DC because I couldn't afford a house or rowhouse in a good school district and didn't want to have to deal with charter lotteries.  I moved from Fairfax because the commute was too long.  People make decisions like this every day - to live in Arlington or Fairfax or Alexandria or Falls Church (or MD or DC.)  The school decision should absolutely factor into where you buy.  Why get mad when someone makes it a big factor?

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I didn't miss your point but you are wrong. Getting into aps and vpi is a time consuming process that might be a challenge if English is not your first language or if you work very long hours and don't SAH.

If you populate ATS with VPI and those who apply but are not from N. ARL schools, I guarantee that scores will stay up. Why? Great teachers, great environment, expectation that they'd do it and, stay with me, their parents will demand it.  Just because a parent needs free lunch for the kid and affordable housing does not mean they will not push them for higher scores.[/quote]

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