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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Particular cases aside, the N/S differences in teacher retention should be a concern for APS.[/quote]

All Arlington schools are great![/quote]

You really just can’t go wrong with any of them.[/quote]

Especially Discovery, which is presumably why a certain senior APS administrator paid a premium to live in that schools zone a couple years ago.[/quote]

Can someone please translate this??[/quote]

There’s a repeat poster who is personally offended that the Asst. Superintendent of Teaching and Learning lives in the Discovery zone. [/quote]

I don’t think it’s just one poster. She has the right to live where it works best for her family, but I have to say it didn’t look great to me.
-Randolph parent[/quote]

Which schools would have been acceptable? McKinley with its 9% FARMS? Ashlawn at 19%? If she'd moved to ASFS (23%) or Oakridge (25%), would that be enough or would anything less than 70% FARMS rate still be a slight?[/quote]

Maybe one that wasn't the newest, most extravagant, and among the least integrated.[/quote]

I think it's more a reflection of how well APS staff is paid.

Besides, I prefer an Asst Supt of Teaching and Learning who understands there are important differences between our schools.  Why single her out?  Why aren't you critics chastising all APS staff - and SB members -  for not living in Title I school zones AND not sending their kids to their neighborhood Title I schools?  Are we to implement some residency requirement mandating that all senior staff and elected SB members live in certain school zones and send their kids to those specific schools?  [u]I'm glad to have someone in her role who acknowledges, understands, and at least TRIES to advance solutions for those differences![/u]  And, sadly, those proposed solutions have greater credibility coming from someone who is not a white UMC parent in south Arlington.

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It's interesting to me that you think that. what policies advocated by SA white UMC that are narrowly self-interested? Integrated schools? Expanded choice schools? Does your ability to afford a home in NA and prioritize proximaity and homogeneity somehow morally superior because your checkbook does the talking?[/quote]

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