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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^Lady, nobody succeeds once the numbers get to 4,000---rich or poor.  Studies continually bear that out.[/quote]

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You're saying this like it's a known fact, but five minutes of googling on my part turned up mixed results. Smaller high schools can sometimes correlate with higher achievement, but larger high schools also can correlate with higher achievement, particularly with more affluent students. (Hello, North Arlington!)

I understand the desire to keep W-L smaller (using "smaller" loosely since 2,200 isn't really all that small to me).  But at the same time you guys seem totally uncaring about what adding a high school to the south with such a high FARMS rate will do to THAT population. The high FARMS rate has a much higher correlation to actual student achievement and success than the size of the school, but you don't seem to care since it won't be your school. Get out of your own head a minute and think about the devastating effect this will have on South Arlington. [/quote]

But it's right on 50, so its boundaries could include a lot of North Arlington, if the SB would just put on its big kid pants and do it rather than saying "We're one Arlington and all our schools are good so it doesn't matter that we roll right over when someone from North Arlington has a tantrum."[/quote]

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