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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure I get your point. First, you suggested that all people with money leave because of dissatisfaction with the schools. Then someone others posted that in their experience that's not true as a general matter i.e., kids are continuing on to GW and TC and that moves are generally due to other reasons like being transferred rather than dissatisfaction with the schools. Then you post a bunch of stuff about the FARMS rates. Yes, there are poor kids in Alexandria. I have met a lot of them. Many are delightful, smart, hardworking kids. [b]What is your point? [/b]That they are undeserving of an education? That non-FARMS kids should not be in school with them? I for one would much rather have my kid in school with her FARMS- kid friends than hanging around with people as prejudiced as you.[/quote]

Again, my point is that the upper income families in ACPS are the minority.  They have the ability and options to move.

FARMs students are the majority of students in ACPS. They are not moving.

The message ACPS sends is that very few kids actually leave the school and the perception is wrong but the reality is that the number of upper income white kids who leave is high but this is not accurately portrayed in aggregate statistics provided by ACPS because they are such a small number of the school population to begin with. They actually now have a dashboard of stats for the schools and you can look at the stats and see the decline of students from K to 5 over a given year and then through the years as well as see the decline in number of students by race.  They have nice little graphs that chart this out. I notice that they ACPS didn't do anything to promote this site to parents when it came online this winter.

Also, I have met many FARMS students who are not delightful, smart or hardworking. They are in fact rude and lazy and wish to get by with the minimum effort.  I have also met many upper income students who are like that as well.

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