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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that schools with high levels of poverty have more difficulties.
Where I disagree is the idea that AH contributes to this problem- I think that AH improves school outcomes.

Could you distribute AH throughout the county?  I think Arl has tried pretty hard to do this.  Yes- it does rely on converting cheap market rate AH to CAF's- but again I think this improves school outcomes- not the opposite.

Should you do away with neighborhood schools in order to even out FARMS rates at various different schools?  I think people can legitimately disagree about this one.  I can see both sides of the argument.
I think the more interesting and realistic discussion is about whether or not school outcomes are really worse for the nonFARMS kids in predominantly FARMS schools.  Are they getting a lesser education than their income peers in less significantly FARMS schools?   
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This has been talked to death and the answer is YES. The answer is always YES. Fairfax county has done studies on this. Studies that we like to ignore in Arlington. There is a tipping point. When a school becomes overburdened by poverty, all children suffer. All of them.
So are south Arlington schools bad?
No. They're fine.
But your middle class kid is statistically less likely to match the outcomes of a kid of the same means in north Arlington.
Look at the breakdown of scores at Randolph compared to Nottingham. It's 5-12 points per subject. 
Does that mean your kid will be a failure at life? Of course not. 
That's not what we are talking about. 
This is a fight worth having.
The people in charge for the last 25 years have been fine with this arrangement. 
I'm not fine with this arrangement. It's a terrible arrangement.
I'm sick to death of watching older democrats patting themselves on the back for a job well done. They've made terrible choices, and we have to work to undo the damage.
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