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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very confusing. There are dozens of posts on DCUM about how Wakefield is already a great school. So why is there this mass outcry about moving students there and increasing the FARMS rate at Wakefield by a percent or two? Does it mean that Wakefield actually isn't nearly as good as the South Arlington real estate boosters want people to believe, or is it just some Trump-induced frenzy in which the North Arlington people come to terms with the fact that they aren't remotely as liberal as they want others to think?[/quote]

Is it cheating to say "some of both"?

First, yes, Wakefield absolutely has great teachers and students. In that sense, it's a great school. But schools don't operate in a vacuum. How students do depends on what their lives are like outside of school -- is their housing secure? are they getting enough to eat? do their families have the time and energy to connect with them emotionally?

Students on FRL are more likely to need other supports. Up to a point, that's not a problem. But over a certain percentage, as the letter notes, it does become a problem. So the goal is, at a minimum, not to inch ever closer to the point at which it does become a problem and instead to nudge it down a percentage point or two when the opportunity presents itself. Wakefield is probably always going to have the highest population of students who get FRL and Yorktown will probably always have the lowest. That's life. But choosing the option that most exacerbates the difference? That's BS.[/quote]

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