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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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So I'm trying to figure out what you mean.  I'm looking at the school report cards- https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/report.do?division=7&schoolName=1705
Do you mean that Nottingham scores are higher than Randolph's?  Well, of course they are- but I would pin that on the socioeconomics feeding into the schools- not what the schools are doing. 
Or do you mean, that even controlled for income, Nottingham is 10 points higher than Randolph?  I would be really interested to see how you conclude that.

In terms of some of the other complaints- about difficulties of setting up play dates and not getting great birthday party responses- well I'm not sure how you want to fix that, or what you see as the role of the school in doing so.
I'm also not sure that it really is a huge difference.  We are at a North Arlington school and invited the whole class to the birthday party, and only had about 2 kids from the class come.  We have never had a playdate from school.[/quote]

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