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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in Alexandria City and our schools have the same problems as South Arlington schools.  Looking at the test scores my thoughts on Randolph would be:

The scores are very low indicating that the general school population is going to need remediation and I see they are Title I. The focus will be on "closing the achievement gap"  the curriculum and instruction need to focus on the very basics and there needs to be lots of repetition on the basics.  They might offer some differentiation but beware that often comes in the form of worksheets handed to the child to work on.

The IB program can't really be effective at this time because they have too many students not getting the basics with the standard curriculum.

Expect that a lot of time and attention in K will be focused on the kids learning school expectations and proper behavior.  This focus continues all throughout.

Look at the extra programs offered by the school. Many times these "extras" don't really benefit your child. Mentoring programs and positive behavior programs and school is important, go to college! programs because your child is already getting those messages at home. The time the school invests in those programs means they can't invest in enrichment programs.

You will always find some enthusiastic parent supporters in your same situation at the school.  They will tell you they love the school, it's great, blah, blah, but see if you get them to give you any real specifics on why they love it. What about the curriculum do they love? How have they seen it benefit their own child?  What do they love about the teacher? What has she done specifically that has made an impact? What was the impact? etc.///[/quote]

This is the honest and non-polemical analysis that people seem to ignore when claiming that sending their upper-income kids to majority low-income schools has no drawbacks. Rightly so, majority low income schools, even high quality ones like those in South Arlington, need to prioritize the needs of their majority demographic; many posters here fail to acknowledge that. [/quote]

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