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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know where I will move, probably north Arlington. I just won’t have as nice a place as I have now.

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"And yes, I could not afford the house I wanted in north arlington otherwise I would have moved there because of the schools.

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I am curious what house and yard features are more important than your child's education.  We are going through the same choices right now.[/quote]

Unless you are at one of the poorest schools, I have a hard time believing actual education is being affected. In a handful of schools, I think it's possible that there's a lot of focus on test prep. I wouldn't want that for my kids, but again, I don't think this a problem across the board.

Do the schools look like a country club? No. Does your kid get to take a charter bus to a field trip out of state? Maybe not. But is your kid falling behind educationally? Also no. The kids who are affected by segregation are not the children of parents posting over here. You can take your kid to the Baltimore Aquarium any time you like, and I bet you already have. It's the kids whose families can't do that who are getting less and for whom the "experience" can't be replicated outside of school hours. [/quote]

That's the thing, they're all increasingly poorest. Oakridge and fleet and possibly Abingdon  are probably going to have farms rates under 40 percent when the dust clears, so great for them. They're going to donate their poorest to the other south Arlington elementaries. The sky's the limit for barcroft, Randolph, Carlin springs and the new drew, which are all going to clock in at about 70% farms or more. I'm not unsympathetic to these children, and they need a lot of help academically and otherwise. You can easily see this in test scores; poor kids always do a lot worse. My concern is that when the student body is that disadvantaged, there's not many resources to direct to kids performing at or above grade level, and their relative advantage leads to comments like, they'll be fine which basically means, they can be ignored. Not my kid.[/quote]

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