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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/122-Kenmore-Middle-School/

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Look at the data. Are all students doing poorly? No. If your child isn't a minority, isn't an English language learner, isn't poor, you have nothing to worry about. It's not like some ES where there isn't a cohort of kids for an UMC child who is academically advanced. All kids have to go to school somewhere, and the poor and minority students have been purposely zoned out of almost every other area of Arlington, this is one of those schools. MC or UMC kids from stable homes, who have few impediments to learning, are doing very well at Kenmore. And maybe, just maybe, they will walk through the their future lives seeing people who don't have their exact same life circumstances as full humans, worthy of dignity, and not think they are "sad" or to be feared and avoided. [/quote]

There is a huge achievement gap at Kenmore.  How does that positively affect the perception of the higher-achieving kids towards the other kids at the school, assuming they aren't largely in different classes?  [/quote]

Speaking for my high achieving 7th grader, I don't think she realizes that others aren't doing as well as she is academically, although she has pointed out to me that kids who are learning English now as a 2nd language are obviously going to struggle with learning the same material she does.  (we were discussing school rankings and test score gaps, and she thought the idea of picking a school based on that was rubbish.)  She is tracked into some classes with other gifted students, but electives, lunch, and PE are all mixed.  She is extremely open minded and accepting of all people. [/quote]

The demographics at most schools include students from a range of backgrounds, but there's a larger cohort of high-achieving kids than at Kenmore.

Every thread about Kenmore triggers the same "I transferred my kid there from Williamsburg" posts, but any proposal to move kids to Kenmore (or Wakefield) provokes fierce opposition.  Is Arlington not really that liberal, or do the other parents know something you're not sharing?[/quote]

Most parents realize that [b]schlepping their kid to another school won't magically change English from a second language to a first language for someone [/b]else.[/quote]

It would at the elementary level. Some of our elementary schools have such a high proportion of ELL students that they aren't really learning English as fast or as well as they could in a more diverse environment with a strong cohort of native speakers. This is a real problem as we've moved away from direct and explicit instruction toward peer workshop models. Besides the peer group, the $$ that follows the kids helps, too. [/quote]

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