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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]It’s the whitest, wealthiest ES in Arlington. There are PTA events at the country club. If you are a family of color, your kids may not meet any classmates who look like them.[/quote] Your tone suggests that these are negatives. [/quote] They are negatives.[/quote] Maybe to you. Most reasonable people would consider those features, not a bug. It is a very good school, in part because of those reasons.[/quote] This poster has to be a troll. [/quote] Why would I be a troll? My children went through Jamestown. I am genuinely offended at your disparagement of it for such trivial reasons. You truly should be ashamed of yourself.[/quote] Nobody disparaged you. Not everyone will find their people there because it’s highly segregated. It can have many good qualities but that’s a big issue for a lot of people. Adults can have these kinds of conversations without everyone taking offense. The people leaving for private school are even going to more diverse schools than Jamestown. That’s pretty exceptional.[/quote] I find it curious that people only complain about segregation when a school is majority white. [/quote] This is pretty much the most common complaint about some of the South Arlington schools: That they are segregated (not majority white). You are wrong.[/quote] No, those schools tend to be described as "diverse." The irony is [b]Yorktown, which is the pyramid into which Jamestown feeds, most closely matches the demographics of Arlington County as a whole[/b]. Jamestown is a fantastic school. It's one thing to say if you are a person of color you might not find people who look like you -- that's fair. But outright disparaging it because of its demographics is pretty disgusting. PP did the latter. [/quote] Um. No. WL's demographics most closely match the demographics of APS students as a whole.[/quote] [b] PP said demographics of Arlington as a whole (including non school age people) and you said demographics of APS as a whole (so just students). You're actually both right about your chosen metrics. [/quote][/b] Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. [/quote]
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