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[quote=Anonymous]The demographics of Alexandria schoolchildren are qualitatively different than Fairfax or Arlington Counties. Over 60% of ACPS students are from low-income families. That is about the same as Prince George's County and only a little lower than DC.  In contrast Arlington is about one-third and Fairfax County is a little under 30%.  Consequently, the Alexandria system-wide and school-specific measures are going to be very different/lower unless you have massive segregation by race and income.

For each individual family, the question is whether their children are being well-served by the adults in their schools.  In our case, we had some good teachers and some great teachers, but we never experienced awful teachers.  My children's SOLs were excellent, no matter what the school averages were.

The reason some of us have little patience for complaints from other UMC parents is that too often they seem little more than thinly veiled calls to huddle all the better off students (nearly all white) into one class or school away from "them." Demanding more resources only for people like "us" is just plain backwards and won't produce any better educational achievement.  [/quote]

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