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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just can't get super worked up about this.    A bunch of things going on.  A huge factor is Arlington is getting wealthier and wealthier.   More people CAN afford private school than ever before.  Covid, some left and won't ever come back.   And yes, the equity dog whistle.   There is a lot of misrepresentation I see on this board about how there is no homework (not true), no one is allowed to fail any more (not true), everyone gets an A (not true), no rigorous content for more advanced students (not true), blah, blah.  High school is plenty rigorous in APS if your student is capable and on that track.  Intensified content is back in middle school.  And if you want your kid pulled out for gifted services in APS, well we never did that so move to Fairfax and enjoy all that comes with that.

Many kids are still going public in Arlington and my genuine reaction is I'm glad for anyone to leave.  More space for my kids and I hope it siphons off the more extreme wealth, which I don't want my kids around anyway.[/quote]

Arlington definitely has a writing problem though. Most graduates don’t believe that they were prepared for college. See this here for some comments https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ELAAC-alumni-data-2019.pdf?fbclid=IwAR346176o-ffh5BxvcZfNCGwt3aDlw4c3nus_GURxbex-DCdpCyQBUj6Rhg

I know the ELAAC committee’s main goal for this year is to push for improvements in writing instruction in schools. However this has not happened yet and there is no guarantee that it will. Standards are going down. Thankfully there has been some positive changes such as improving the elementary ELA curriculum. But the curriculum is new and some schools are completely ignoring it. [/quote]

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