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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, we were in the MacArthur district for several years with two in that school.

What you will find is the more affluent (white) schools you have targeted for ES are fine. But when the elementary schools consolidate into middle school, the poverty and all its attendant issues present themselves more plainly. And so by about third grade, you start to see families exiting ACPS, either to privates or moving to Arlington, Fairfax or Loudoun. It is true that some of these moves are based on perception of future risk rather than reality — your kid CAN and WILL get a good education at the middle schools and high school. But they will have to operate in kind of a bubble to do so. Remember this whenever people extol “diversity” as a virtue — if their kids are high achievers, they are probably segregated within school from the lower-achieving students, who also happen to be poor and brown.

It’s a weird dynamic, for sure. There is some thinking that if you can excel in a school like that, it looks attractive to colleges. But I consider that to be kind of a cynical perspective as high school shouldn’t be something to endure.

Unfortunately, affluenza is an issue too in some of the schools these people transfer to.

Hard to get the balance right.[/quote]

Yea I don't really get the "diversity" cult in Alexandria when there is a pretty visible racial achievement gap and the way to get a good education is to segregate. Seems a bit 1950s-ish just without the blatant racism.[/quote]

For a certain segment of the community, it really assuages their white guilt, yet they fail to acknowledge the internal segregation within the system, which of course takes a lot of work to dismantle (and ACPS is not really up for the task).  The person who mentions vague, jargon-filled slide decks prepared by consultants is spot on.  Even the whole Virtual Plus+ thing was a racket, but they loved promoting that catchy phrase.[/quote]

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