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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand this thread.  My daughter was zoned for a North Arlington school, and we lotteried into Campbell, which is far more diverse and a Title I school.  Many of her friends at Campbell were zoned for diverse South Arlington schools, but they lotteried from one diverse, high FARMS school into a different diverse, high FARMS school.[/quote]

You're not the "problem." The problem is that families in South Arlington have "liberal or progressive values" and yet they all are clamoring to escape their neighborhood schools. These same people think charter schools and school choice/vouchers are TERRIBLE yet they functionally are taking advantage of those programs. It causes a brain drain in those neighborhood schools. The best indicator future success is your peer group. Every family in SA that cares about education is moving out. It has nothing to do with race or class as many rightly pointed out that the option schools are very diverse both racially and economically (based on FRL status). [/quote]

+1 APS options are not ethically better than charter schools. They are draining resources from our neighborhood schools. Kids and money both. [b]They give south arlington parents the advantages that north arlington parents buy into.[/b] Stable schools with less student and teacher turnover, less chronic absenteeism, you name it. We just dress it up in "pedagogical differences'. [/quote]

:shock: Talk about saying the quiet part out loud [/quote]

It's true. that's why all the hit dogs are hollerin.[/quote]

Sup SW. didn’t you send your kid to private school?[/quote]

Funny. Doesn't most of APE send one or more of their kids to private school too? And yet, they still can't stop talking about APS.

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I don’t think SW is part of APE. But it does go to show the hypocrisy on all sides.[/quote]

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