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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everyone can just move to North Arlington and I don't think we should have to. The same quality schools be available in the whole of the county.[/quote]

The hard thing to acknowledge, publicly, is that what makes a school high quality is a matter of debate.  IMHO, APS doesn't have a teacher quality problem. It has a distribution problem. As in, the UMC is unevenly distributed across the schools. Nothing - NOTHING - impacts school quality as much as engaged, educated parents who encourage their kids, support the school, socially and economically. These are people who show up, they are almost always UMC people with the means to do it, and there aren't enough of them in most SA schools, and never will be until the SB draws boundaries that aren't so segregated so as to run off what few UMC parents are willing to give a school a shot but bail after three years of exhaustion. UMC are a strategic resource and aps should act like it. Way more important than iPads and whatever bauble is next.[/quote]

I know. I just hope its not as bad as people say. Seriously not moving and can't afford private.

All my neighbors love the schools their kids are at, and they are all professionals.

That said, I spent my formative years in one of the worst elementary schools in the country. It was so bad, Bill Clinton went there to make it better, a couple of years after I left. I attended a gifted program once a week. I turned out fine, but I did go on to a private high school. [/quote]

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