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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]Are they getting a lesser education than their income peers in less significantly FARMS schools? [/b]  
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We stuck with it but I think my kid got a lesser education in K, 1st, and 2nd than he would have in a north Arlington school. He got a lot of pull out from the RTG starting the second week of kindergarten but it didn't change the fact that he came into school being able to read and do math and literally no other kid in his class could, and he stayed ahead of them for a couple of years. If he had been average in his class, he would have done different things, more things, with his class. At the end of the day, I don't know that it is going to make a material difference in, say, his SAT scores. But he could have had a richer educational experience if he hadn't been in a class where half of the kids came in speaking little or no English (and not just Spanish at home--lots of different languages, which is its own challenge) and almost none came in with any type of prior schooling. I'm not saying they had behavioral problems or their parents weren't committed to their educations or anything like that. But there's no question it was not the experience other kids have, and if I had the chance to do it over I don't know if I would have chosen to live in south Arlington (and yes, it was a choice.) [/quote]

DS goes to school in North Arlington.  In K there were 6 of them in the top reading group.  5 in the lowest (as in struggling with the alphabet) so that leaves 14 in the middle.  Please don't think all kids in N. Arlington are on reading and Math prodigies.  [/quote]

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