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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Complainers gonna complain.  We've been perfectly happy with our APS experience.  The scores show zero difference between our school and high achieving MCPS / FCPS schools. So, shrug. [/quote]

So you are at Jamestown?[/quote]

Dang you went there.  And you’re probably right.[/quote]

Frankly so jealous of Jamestown. We are in North Arlington and the schools were supposed to be good, but it is such a difference apparently between neighborhoods. Jamestown is apparently amazing and meanwhile we are looking at private school because our neighborhood school is not the best. We should have bought north of Langston.[/quote]

Which NA schools are not as nice as Jamestown?[/quote]

Pretty much the rest of them.  We bought above Langston and are far from thrilled.  [/quote]

What’s the rest of your pyramid?  Williamsburg and Yorktown?  Do people like those schools?[/quote]

Discovery, Nottingham, Taylor and Jamestown are the best in Arlington if you have a bright kid that would be bored. The other NA schools are fine as well but your  gifted kid may not be challenged. [/quote]

[b]Gifted kids aren’t challenged at any Arlington school.[/b] You have to go private. Your kid really isn’t that gifted [/quote]

The bolded.  It’s by design.

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Why's that?

I'm a newish parent, first kid is still in daycare, but reading these threads about APS is a bit disillusioning. And it's hard for me to tell what's run of the mill online griping and what's real.[/quote]

People thrive on negativity. It’s human nature. Take everything here with a grain of salt. The negative posts on all the school systems in this forum make it sound like DC area public schools are on the decline, not what they used to be, etc. And on the private school forum, some private school threads are even questioning the benefits of private schools, i.e., is it worth the money. [/quote]

In the last decade:

1) APS high school overcrowding has been ignored and 4th high school denied, so answer is supersize existing schools

2) gifted services went from pull out to fake push in

3) grades replaced by standards based grading

4) Lucy Caulkins reading — but that was widespread and being fixed

5) equity is focus, not meeting children’s needs where they are at. [/quote]

The neighborhoods around Kenmore pushed back against a 4th high school there. The W-L PTA surveyed all the surrounding neighborhoods and results strongly favored expansion there. Then Arlington Tech opened, and based on community support, APS decided to expand that popular program to solve overcrowding once and for all.

All area school districts are supportive of equity initiatives. [/quote]

FFS, polling neighborhoods is not how you plan a school district.

Of course neighbors don’t want increased traffic and mischief of a high school.

[b]Of course current families support expanding WL because a) they don’t want to be zoned out and b) most of them will be out of the system before overcrowding becomes dire. We are zoned for WL and I never saw such a survey anyways. [/b]

AT is nice enough, but it won’t solve the problems since we need 2500 seats and it will max out at 1000 — and since it’s option it could fall out of favor and blow up on us (like when we need 1000 students but you can’t attract that many to a vocational adjacent campus). [/quote]

All then-zoned W-L neighborhoods filled out the poll which was targeted towards future W-L families. But that was [b]eight years ago[/b], and many of those then-zoned W-L neighborhoods have since been rezoned to Yorktown, like the neighborhoods north of Langston and those west of Bon Air and Bluemont Park.

APS simply followed the desires of the impacted groups, and the Arlington Tech solution did not  upset anyone in particular. [/quote]

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