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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure there is a bright cadre of kids at Jefferson but there are way more kids on balance who are going to have needs just due to demographics.  Hamm is going to have — again on balance — a much larger group of very bright, very motivated kids. It’s my belief that kids are some of the strongest influences on each other and while you could find your way into that group at Jefferson for sure you are much more likely to have that opportunity at Hamm plus the overall dynamic is going to be less needs driven. [/quote]

It's my belief that Hamm exceptionalism is tiresome. Some of us don't want to buy or live in N Arlington. We have work commutes to manage, family budgets to live within and neighborhood connections we value too much to give them up by moving north. My TJMS students have a large enough peer group of "very bright, very motivated" kids to rub shoulders with at school. Believe it or not, some of these kids aren't from well-off families. Heaven help us, they're from hardscrabble recent immigrant families where academic success is paramount. Their parents may have been professionals in Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela or Mongolia, but some of them are janitors or Lyft drivers in VA for now. Needs-driven peers who put nose to the grindstone and don't compete to have the snazziest stuff seem like good influences on my spoiled UMC children.[/quote]

+1000!
Plus, the opportunity to be around so many peers from so many different backgrounds (not just racial backgrounds, but just as importantly economic backgrounds) deters the attitudes of entitlement and superiority that are espoused by so many anti-South Arlington school comments that pervade DCUM. That, and their ability to understand and communicate and work with people of all sorts, will also benefit them in their future careers and just life in general.[/quote]

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