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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. He has kids in elementary school.  So he gets it.  Katie Cristol is just Mary Hyne's protege.  It's nice that 's she's under 60, but she does not understand the school situation in Arlington.Talk about out of touch.  She's an educational consultant and Randolph school volunteer who claims the school is doing well. Has she even looked at their scores Spend a day in the at Randolph and then go to, say, Glebe or Long Branch or McKinley for a day. NOT the same.  And look at SOLs.  Oh--and please call me in 5 years and let me know if Katie Cristol is sending her kids to Randolph.  Ha. [/quote]

Wow. Head. In. The. Sand. To spend time in these schools and still not be willing to have an honest conversation about it?

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Wait, could a regular person go to different schools like that and then bring it up at the county meetings? Like, I visited my South Arl school and a North Arl school and its clear my child is not getting an equal education?[/quote]

It's not that the education isn't equal, in the sense that the facilities and the resources and the quality of the teachers is the same in all schools across Arlington. What's different is--what the teachers have to spend time in class focusing on, what kinds of opportunities the kids have (funding for after school activities, parent support for various clubs, etc.), what the general tenor of the school is. My kids go to schools in south Arlington and the stuff that we get from the schools and the stuff the parents talk about is different from north Arlington schools. We get flyers about sending in food for backpacks for kids who would otherwise go hungry on the weekends. Other schools send home flyers about enrichment activities and academic competitions. The focus at our middle school seems to be on getting kids to pass and stay in school through high school graduation--it emphasizes "career" readiness as much as "college" readiness. If I have a kid who I want to go to college, he is missing out somewhat by not being immersed in a culture where college is the expectation. We just don't hear about certain opportunities, because the teachers and the other parents don't know about them or don't focus on them. If the schools were less segregated economically, you wouldn't have this kind of divide, but the board is unwilling to implement more choice schools or drastically redraw the boundaries to get this kind of change. [/quote]

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