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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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You’re talking to someone who is more interested in attacking people and wallowing in their bitterness than in working on constructive solutions. Hatefulness isn’t worth responding to, let alone trying to reason with.[/quote]

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