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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me give it to you straight. Swanson is a way better school. That being said all the middle schools in Arlington suck. They are not rigorous at all and barely prepare you for high school. [/quote]

Agree that Swanson is a much better school. My son went to Swanson and is doing very well at W-L now. Two friends who are at W-L with him went to Kenmore, and they were completely unprepared for the rigor of high school. Yes, Kenmore is a nicer building, but I really don’t care about that. [/quote]

Yeah sure. It couldn’t possibly be anything to do with the individual students. The curriculum and amount of rigor, or lack there of, is not different at the MS level. It’s just not. Parents can blame the schools, but that doesn’t make it so. [/quote]

My kids didn’t go to Kenmore but I have some friends whose kids went to Kenmore - some stayed for all three years, others moved to other schools. The common complaint among nearly all of them was that the teachers were mostly focused on getting everyone to the bare minimum passing on standardized tests. That is much harder to do in Kenmore, where half the school is ESL. So the students who already were above passing did not get much attention. [/quote]

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