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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And while I'm not crazy about Kadera - her kid(s) are also at a school in South Arlington.  :roll:

Try not to misrepresent things, OK? 
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Saying her kids are at a school in south Arlington does not paint an accurate picture.  Her kids were very much in north Arlington elementary schools and now in Kenmore MS - a school literally on the south side of Route 50 - and are likely to attend their districted north Arlington high school.

As a parent whose children are solidly in south Arlington schools from a high poverty ES to a high poverty MS to Wakefield, I don't think this is what most people conjure up in their minds when they hear someone from north Arlington sent their kids to Kenmore.  They are still very much north Arlington folks.
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Well, Kenmore is the highest poverty MS and not the one MK is zoned for. So, your point is what? Southie here with kids in a Title 1 school and zoned to high poverty MS-HS, voting MK, who has been endorsed by basically all the community advocates who work to help Title 1 ES like mine.[/quote]

Wanted to add that the economically disadvantaged kids from Barrett, Barcroft, and Carlin Springs ES are zoned to Kenmore. APS doesn’t give or designate any schools beyond ES Title 1 money, preferring to target ES instead, but KMS would qualify given the percentage of disadvantaged students. It’s absolutely a “South Arlington” school in that sense. [/quote]

Yes, it is.  I don't dispute the nature of Kenmore MS at all.  As I stated, mine attended a high poverty elementary as well as (the second highest FRL) MS, TJ which would also qualify for Title I.  My point is that it does not necessarily paint an accurate picture of the candidate's experience in APS schools just because they chose to detour to Kenmore between wealthy elementary and high schools, and that's the only south Arlington school they are a part of. When someone says the candidate's kids attend south arlington schools, the more likely assumption is that they attended elementary in south arlington.  That is not the case and is very different from attending McKinley and living in a north Arlington neighborhood.  The person thought the previous poster was misrepresenting the candidate, and I think saying her kids attend a south Arlington school - a middle school and only middle school - is also debatably misrepresentational.[/quote]

We’ll agree to disagree then. I think the fact that her kids opted into a high poverty school, even if “only” for MS which, speaks to how she and her family see our different school communities, and from that experience I believe that she is aware of the needs of a “South Arlington” school in a personal way, not just in an academic way that her CCPTA experience might suggest. So she’s not just a typical North Arlington candidate. And MT is not a typical South Arlington candidate, either, in that she could afford private school to meet her child’s needs. [/quote]

DP.  Let me know when she sends her kids to Wakefield instead of Yorktown.[/quote]

or WL.[/quote]

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