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Yes, as a matter of fact we did try out our public school and this is how I know first hand what happens.

I am I am not referring to have expensive clothes.[b] I am talking about kids who did have winter coats or long pants or shoes without holes. [/b] These were real issues that the school social worker dealt with every single day.

[b]One thing I have observed is parents start out very happy in K and 1st but things begin to change once they reach the older grades. [/b] for parents looking for feedback on schools, I would check with families in your neighborhood who have kids who are in grades 3, 4 and 5 and even those who went off to middle school.  Sometimes the shine of elementary wears off in middle school and parents are more realistic about their experience.[/quote]

are there more poor kids in 3-5 than in K-2?[/quote]

Maybe? I think what PP might have been alluding to is the number of families who try the local school and it seems fine in K-1 because you have nothing to compare it to, and because parents typically don't expect academic rigor for this age group. But then you hear about the family that moved around 2nd or 3rd grade and they found out that their kid is a YEAR behind in math at their new school, or that they are now in the lowest reading group when they had been the classroom reading star at their previous school and all assurances from the previous school were that everything was on track and kid was doing very well. That kind of disparity is unsettling, and I understand why parents zoned for the lowest performing schools, where reports out of the school are not uniformly positive, question whether the average child's needs will be met, or could be met. And once parents have this kind of information, if they have the choice, some have been leaving. Probably not enough to be statistically significant, but enough for the anecdotes to make their way through the grapevine and scare other families.  Not all S. Arlington schools are like this (not even all the Tile 1 schools are), but some are. [/quote]

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