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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/122-Kenmore-Middle-School/

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Look at the data. Are all students doing poorly? No. If your child isn't a minority, isn't an English language learner, isn't poor, you have nothing to worry about. It's not like some ES where there isn't a cohort of kids for an UMC child who is academically advanced. All kids have to go to school somewhere, and the poor and minority students have been purposely zoned out of almost every other area of Arlington, this is one of those schools. MC or UMC kids from stable homes, who have few impediments to learning, are doing very well at Kenmore. And maybe, just maybe, they will walk through the their future lives seeing people who don't have their exact same life circumstances as full humans, worthy of dignity, and not think they are "sad" or to be feared and avoided. [/quote]

There is a huge achievement gap at Kenmore.  How does that positively affect the perception of the higher-achieving kids towards the other kids at the school, assuming they aren't largely in different classes?  [/quote]

Speaking for my high achieving 7th grader, I don't think she realizes that others aren't doing as well as she is academically, although she has pointed out to me that kids who are learning English now as a 2nd language are obviously going to struggle with learning the same material she does.  (we were discussing school rankings and test score gaps, and she thought the idea of picking a school based on that was rubbish.)  She is tracked into some classes with other gifted students, but electives, lunch, and PE are all mixed.  She is extremely open minded and accepting of all people. [/quote]

There are always different levels of achievement and students always know who the top academics are, as well as those who don't do so well academically.  It's not a matter of the achievement gap.  It's just people.  And I think it's an added benefit if the more affluent, high-achieving academic students have the opportunity to see the realities of the achievement gap, anyway.  Kids are smarter than adults - they know other students struggle for legitimate reasons, not because they're stupid; and they know those kids aren't dragging them down and dooming them to a life of failure - it's the adult parents who think that way.[/quote]

Proves too much. [b]High-achievers can “see the realities” of the achievement gap without being at a school of mostly low-achievers.[/b] What they may not glean at a school like Kenmore is just how many other high-achievers are out there.[/quote]

Yeah?  Really?  How?  When?  Where?  All those Jamestown/Williamsburg/Yorktown kids are really that grounded in reality?  Oh, wait - you're right.  They clearly are very aware of the achievement gap, evidenced by their scorn and belittling attitudes about Wakefield and Kenmore.  Or is that just their parents?[/quote]

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