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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, why did you choose Discovery in the first place?  Did you really not consider any other school in N. Arlington?[/quote]

Have you seen their playground? And the slide? The ground are amazing, I totally regret not buying a house zoned there that we liked that was a hair over our budget.

Taylor is such sad sad campus; and of course the pot smoking gym teachers doesn't help :)

But we know many families there and they love it.  Same with Jamestown.[/quote]

Every school has its downsides. Discovery has a great playground and wonderful teachers, but it's[b] well know that its administration is pretty weak[/b].[/quote]

Not well known enough. Please tell us why they are weak.  Weak where? [/quote]

The principal there is very nice, well-intentioned and hard working, but some feel that she perhaps had not had enough administrative experience before being promoted to principal. There is a sentiment that she is perhaps too soft a leader who lets the teachers a bit too much freedom to do as they please, resulting in a lot of inconsistencies across grade levels and even within teaching teams. There has been a significant amount of concern in particular around APS's 1:1 device policy, which so far has been fairly lax at the central administration level with a lot of discretion left to the principals of individual schools to set policies about proper use. Without firm guidance about iPad usage from the principal, some teachers have given their students virtually unrestricted and unsupervised access to iPads when they are not actively teaching, particularly during indoor recess. There was an unfortunate incident a couple of years ago when some fourth or fifth graders (I forget which) unintentionally or otherwise used their iPads to access sexually explicit materials during the school day.[/quote]

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