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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I regret every minute that we moved from South Arlington to North Arlington.  Kids are far more cliquish in N Arlington schools.  All Arlingtons school are really good but N Arlington schools have better test results and now, I feel stupid for picking schools based on that.[/quote]

We're in N Arlington but DS goes to a countywide school.  We hear from our neighbors and friends about[b] the parent craziness in our neighborhood school and others[/b] in N Arlington and are glad we're missing out on it.  To us, test scores are sort of irrelevant -- they might not be if we lived in an area with poor public schools but Arlington schools really are quite good, with only a couple of possible exceptions.  In any event, we care about how DS does and what he learns, not what everyone else's test scores are.[/quote]

can you share some?[/quote]

Sure - parents complaining at one N Arlington school meeting that stickers were not being taken off apples in the extended day program and that the apples weren't organic.  Countywide meeting on ADHD where several N Arlington parents got up to express (they identified themselves by the school of their kids), individually, that if the County would serve only healthy food in the school cafeterias, there'd be less incidence of ADHD.

Those are my two favorites.

Other favorite was when DS played soccer and there was a match between his team (he played for a couple of years on the neighborhood team where his school was located, rather than the team for the N Arlington school/neighborhood where we live) and one of the N Arlington neighborhood teams, the difference in snacks during/after the game was amazing.  For DS' team, parents brought various snacks - crackers, string cheese etc. - but[b] the parents of the N Arlington team brought both a larger array of snacks and drinks, and brought tables, plates etc. to serve them on. [/b] And lest readers think that the team DS played on was mostly low-income/non-white, that's not the case - most of his teammates were white middle-class kids with college-educated parents, but the difference in the intensity of the parents was, to me, astounding -- both in the way the parents shouted from the sidelines, and the organization/drive that they brought to such mundane things as the post-game snacks.[/quote]

but, but, but, was there any juice served???!!!

(tks for sharing!)[/quote]

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