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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS is failing other parents' non-gifted kids, too. You're not special.[/quote]

APS only job is to get kids to pass the SOLs. Period. [/quote]

Agreed.

I don’t believe it’s the goals of individual teachers, although this is true for some.  Nor do I believe it’s important to most families.  But it is the driving force behind APS administration.

I am shocked now by how many people pull their child for privates.  While I acknowledge there are economic changes in Arlington allowing this, it’s also a reflection of how so many families feel about our public schools. [/quote]

In your Yorktown zoned street, every child goes to private school.  [/quote]

On our W-L street with $$$ homes, only 3 out of 13 kids go to private. 
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“Only”?!?   About 1/4 of the kids leave APS and you don’t think that is significant?   I disagree.

On my Yorktown block, it’s currently 8/14 in private but the trend is private as they age so all 8 are HSers.

I know people say good riddance and all but it’s a dramatic shift over the last two decades, accelerated by Covid I am sure.  
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For one of the most affluent areas in the county “only” 3 of 13 means that even affluent families are still choosing APS. 
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It was not Covid, it was the housing prices. I live in the part of Arlington where two GS-15s can own a home. Show me a neighborhood anywhere in the US where the majority of people in $2-4M homes send their kids to public school. Sure, some people in the far north neighborhoods bought their homes 15 years ago when today’s HS kids were babies, but when more and more of neighbors and friend group choose private, it becomes like a contagion. [/quote]

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