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[quote]Not the previous poster, but I think you might be a little sensitive on this point. I'm certain the teachers are wonderful. I truly don't think anyone on this thread thinks the teachers are the problem. My concern when I look at the scores ( which I know aren't the end all be all) is that when you break down along peer groups, there is still a gap. Upper SES kids in the struggling S Arl schools aren't performing as well as their north Arlington counter parts, and by a significant margin. It's about a 10 point difference. That doesn't completely scare me off from the schools, and I will send my kids to one of the poorest schools we have mentioned. I absolutely believe DH and I can pick up the slack at home, but it is clear that when schools are this over burdened with a majority of under privledged children, all of the students get slowed down. I don't see a way around it. 
 The county seems to think it's just fine, and are actively trying to increase those numbers. Maybe they know something we don't... But it seems more likely that they just want everything to be fine and for us to shut up about it.

How could you possibly know this? Do you work for APS that you have information about SES levels for individual students? Do you also know which of those high-SES students might have 504s or IEPs? Please do tell what data you are basing the above comment on.

Dude, you need to calm down. [b]Yes, these are cursory numbers and they can easily be looked up online[/b]. Of course there will be outlying factors, but when you see the trend from school to school we see pattern, no? [/quote]

This does not answer my questions. I am very aware of the data that can be accessed online, and none of it mentions SES levels. If you are going to make sweeping statements, you should be ready to back them up with data.

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Of course I am not talking about individual students. That's crazy. You can break the scores down by non disadvantaged kids online. You can break it down by language, sex, race... I'm certain there are outliers that aren't accounted for- since we are talking about percentages of students not individuals.[/quote]

Also I wrote 10 point difference above, but that wasn't very accurate. Really I should have written 5-10 points.[/quote]

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