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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a pretty important letter posted to the Arlington Education Matters group on Facebook about the block controversy at Williamsburg MS yesterday. It's a closed group, though, though there are about 1,300 members.

Letter basically said that documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act point to a lack of "stakeholder buy-in" among parents and teachers. There's no way to link to it, unfortunately. [/quote]

I don't know, that parent is definitely starting to sound a little fanatical about it. I get that he's upset and has invested a lot of time, but it all seems a little over-the-top, both the letter and his posts/comment responses on Facebook. As a parent who doesn't fully understand the pros and cons, it's hard to trust the position of someone who now seems totally personally invested in the issue and letting it color his perceptions of other people. [/quote]

And I still don't understand how this differs from what is happening at the other middle schools in APS. Don't they all have some form of block scheduling? If it's such a bad idea for the kids of WMS, why isn't it a bad idea generally? What makes the students at WMS different? Why aren't all the schools employing the same schedules? They allegedly have the same curriculum, no? [/quote]

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