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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been a PP in the Barrett conversation...bought into some of the high-end new development in Buckingham. Am opting for private; seems nearly impossible to even consider public, unless I accepted Barrett...which for a variety of the reasons discuss doesn't meet our standards (we are very picky on education and for all the boosting of local middle/upper-middle income parents, Barrett doesn't sell for us)...we would have absolutely taken some of the other APS schools, but it seems almost impossible to have any school choice given overcrowding/demand. Luckily we went in knowing we could afford private so we don't mind so much....

I'm thinking some of the folks buying into Arlington Forest would be stretching their budget already and getting into the only reasonable N Arlington option available to them, so privates would often not be an option.... and given the APS situation at present, they may not realistically be able to consider any other APS options. I thought, however, once upon a time parents automatically had an option to opt out of a Title I school....is this true or just a rumor?[/quote]

I think people simply get scared away by the idea of their "white" and/or "upper middle class" kids (because there are a lot of ethnic minority kids who are [u]definitely [/u]part of the upper middle class and/or Arlington Forest neighborhood contingent) going to school with majority "minority" and "lower class" kids. These same people look at the test scores and think Barrett is a "weak" school. The fact is, if you look at the test scores, the "white" and "upper middle class" kids do JUST as well on their testing as "white" and "upper middle class" kids at all the other North Arlington schools.
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Interesting. Can you post the link or direct us to the source of test scores disaggregated by ethnicity and/or income that demonstrate that upper-middle income Barrett kids score equivalently to their peers at other North Arlington schools. Curious given the long-standing research that everyone (including middle income+kids) generally score lower in majority low-income schools. [/quote]

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