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Many of us moved to DMV from other states and we bought in NA because we work in DC and want to be near the Orange line and bus lines that take us directly to the stations, or close-by parking. When I was looking, I was told by coworkers and realtors that all Arlington schools are very good, so we looked all over the county.

And what's the big deal if "white" people want to spend extra to live in NA if they can afford it and want a more green, suburban setting?! Why are so many in Arlington so race-obsessed?
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Look at the last 25 pages for the answer.

NA schools have more kids from MC housing secure families, have less teacher turnover and better funded PTAs that can pay for field trips and other extras + kids who show up for school.

SA schools don’t have most of these things.

Options are like NA schools but more racially and economically diverse. 
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+1.  But APS pretends like they’re all the same. [/quote]

An APS staffer said they don’t compare school performance among schools. Seems like they should to see what’s working. It doesn’t all come down to demographics. There are some title 1 neighborhood schools outperforming others by a large degree. Strong leadership and teachers make a difference. [/quote]

Incorrect. They compare school performance.

Ask anyone on the South Arlington working group of 2016. They had slides and graphs.  They even separated the Montessori program from Drew to illuminate that the Montessori program was what was elevating the numbers.   
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I never quite understood why Montessori had to get moved out of Drew. Now Drew is underenrolled and the Montessori people don't like their building and want a new home. Why can't they just go back to Drew? problem solved! [/quote]

The class times don't align, the pedagogies are actually different, you need an administrator who knows Montessori well, and it was a disservice to the neighborhood program. Montessori's (and its PTA) contributions to the neighborhood program were minimal. Moving them out gave APS the chance to boost Drew - but the community pushed back hard and APS caved, ultimately making it more impoverished than the 60% their boundary recommendation made it. The only thing housing Montessori in there did was hide the utterly shameful performance of the neighborhood program.[/quote]

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