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Here is another real world example:

About 6-7 years ago Patrick Henry was 6/10 on Great Schools with a free lunch rate of about 50%.

Now they are a 9/10  rating at Great schools and have a free lunch rate of 37%!

Also : Patrick Henry Elementary School has been recognized as a 2015 National Blue Ribbon School, the only public elementary school in Northern Virginia to receive the honor this year.

In case this moronic out of touch Board plans to bump up the poverty rate again, because of their idiotic housing plan (while raising my real estate tax assessment 12% again), that would be ... I have no words.   Just this message for the Board: You won't get our money, if that'll come to pass.

There is that sweet spot where a great staff and enough involved parents can make it all excellent- but if you overwhelm a school with challenges - not the greatest staff will be able to overcome it - in my personal opinion.[/quote]

It will be interesting to see what happens at Drew, since it looks like the Montessori people are going to get their wish and the new elementary in south Arlington will allow them to have a separate school. I've heard that 90% of the kids in the non-Montessori/neighborhood program are on free or reduced lunch, so if the School Board goes ahead and separates the programs, they will basically be making Drew the highest poverty (and probably smallest and least diverse) school in Arlington. Sounds like a real set up for failure--[b]they had better have a rock solid plan to prevent that from happening[/b]. [/quote]

Indeed.  If this does happen, it will put everything in the daylight pretty quickly.

I really think ATS needs to have more spaces set aside for VPI students so that the population of our only countywide school is reflective of Arlington's population.  And perhaps we could expand VPI to more schools, like Nottingham, Jamestown, Discovery, Taylor, and Tuckahoe, and then those children, even if they live out of bounds, could opt to continue in K-5.  Sort of works like busing, but is not mandatory/forced.  This can only happen if we get the capacity crisis under control and there is space for VPI classrooms and additional K-5 students at those schools.

I have heard from some in the minority community, particularly the immigrant Hispanic community, that they don't want their children to be bused far from home where they would be in the extreme ethnic minority.  They feel more comfortable having their children attend schools with high proportions of other similar children, where they feel better able to communicate and feel a sense of community.  So this concern could be addressed by making busing purely choice, and also by building SOME affordable housing closer to the schools that have little to none nearby.  [/quote]

The immigrant Hispanic community isn't helping these issues. I really don't care what makes them more comfortable- if everyone else if footing the bill. We are also talking about parents who in some cases have no formal education.  Sorry - they need to be integrated not segregated. Making them comfortable holds their own children back.[/quote]

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