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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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It's the same double-speak that you hear about TC Williams. Tangibly, Wakefield and TC Williams are poor-achieving schools. By tangibly, I mean by the numbers. But their supporters will say the schools are better than their numbers. There is probably truth to this, and it's also probably hyperbole and wishful thinking there too.

What they're really saying is they feel overburdened. That poor brown kids who don't speak English as a first language are a burden on achievement. And they are. And they want to share the burden. Casting it as achieving diversity is just window dressing -- this is actually about quotas.
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