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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MacArthur a very good a school. The new building is beautiful and there are plenty of excellent, caring teachers. Of course some things could be better, like if the ever opened the playground for the kids to play on... but we are plenty satisfied.[/quote]

The new building is beautiful and everyone raves about it.

I don't doubt that the teachers are caring. So why are the proficiency scores so terrible? Better than most of the other East Side schools (George Mason is just a disaster!) but still dismal.

I think quality of education is what should determine if a school is "very good" not how nice the building is or how caring the teachers are.

Why don't people care about actual education in Alexandria? Genuine question. I don't understand it. [/quote]

Because the people who move to Alexandria want to meet other rich people at a wine bar or nice restaurant by the waterfront and pay tutors to get their kids into a good school. The people who care about education move to Arlington or Fairfax.[/quote]

You mean move to wealthier school districts with less poverty and ESL? Also, you're an a s s hole. [/quote]

The difference in ESL numbers aren't that different in the three districts. Between Arlington and Alexandria it's only 5%.

The economically disadvantaged numbers are very different.

Why should anyone be called names for moving to provide their kid with what is clearly a superior education? What is wrong with that? [/quote]

Nice try at gaslighting. PP didnt say "we chose to move for X.and Y reasons." No, they shit on every person who lives in Alexandria by saying "Because the people who move to Alexandria want to meet other rich people at a wine bar or nice restaurant by the waterfront and pay tutors to get their kids into a good school." Only an ass hole says that. [/quote]

Disagreeing with you is not gaslighting. It's disagreement. People have different experiences. And PP sums up my experience in Alexandria. Name calling doesn't make you right or change my lived experience. [/quote]

Got it. It's OK for you to denigrate everyone in Alexandria, but getting called out for saying that is name calling. You don't get to say 'Alexandrians are rich snobs who don't care about their kids' and then claim that's not a blanket insult because it's your lived experience. Kindly go F ck yourself. [/quote]

+1 Government employee here married to an academic. HHI of 210. Children went Maury- GW- TC. Both kids went on to excellent universities. It gets really tiresome listening to the bigots masquerading as progressive liberals.[/quote]

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