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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only time I was truly unhappy with APS was during COVID. But otherwise we’ve had a great experience at least so far at the elementary school level. My kids have had nothing but terrific teachers. I think the fact there are numerous threads about APS on here just speaks to the extent of parental involvement in the schools. For better or worse, the parents around here are really involved with keeping up with what is going on with the school board and at their kids’ schools. Sometimes that isn’t 100% a good thing, but I love that we’ve really gotten to know a lot of other parents because they are active with volunteering in the classroom, coaching sports, meeting up for after school park play dates, etc. And the focus on walk zones/neighborhood schools really creates a nice community where you see your kids’ classmates when out for bike rides or after dinner walks.

[b]Beyond schools we just much prefer the lifestyle here. Even with the ability to be close to fully remote/one of us has a reverse commute, we like all the stuff we can walk to. We like not spending a lot of time in our car. There’s a ton of really good rec level and travel sports offerings. We have multiple really nice parks within a few blocks of us. We can easily get into DC for a date night, show, etc., but have all the benefits of a SFH on a quiet street. [/b][/quote]

This. Also, when my kids were in ES (youngest just graduated W-L) the strength of Arlington vs. neighboring districts was that they consistently had smaller class sizes and, with two kids with very inconsistent strengths, we preferred the APS model for gifted services to Fairfax's AAP. You also never had to worry about getting a spot in extended day while that was an issue in Fairfax. But, I don't know how much of this is still true given the growth in APS. [/quote]

Yeah, no longer pull out gifted just watered down push in which is busywork overseen by primary classroom teacher already assigned classes 20% bigger than they used to be. Extended day much harder to secure. Larger classes as mentioned. Standards based fake grading. Equity priority over academic rigor so bright kids end up idle or on iPads. [/quote]

Bravo. You covered the issues nicely in one paragraph. [/quote]

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