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Wrong. [b] Plenty, and I mean plenty, of ACPS parents pulled their DCs from private schools [/b]because the social and academic environments at most ACPS schools are simply better than what is available at most privates in this region.  In fact, several ACPS elementaries are well known to take in multiple ex-privates every year.  It's not just about money, and it's not limited to one or two privates losing kids to publics.  It happens every year.  
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This might be the case but I don't believe that those parents then send their kids to ACPS. They send them to Arlington or Fairfax schools.

In ACPS , The decline of students starts in 4th grade and continues through high school.  You can look at historical data from the schools and see this happen every year for the past few years.  The growth in enrollment over the past couple of years has been in the grades K-3 and mostly concentrated in K and 1st.

BTW SOL scores released today showed 18% of 8th graders passed the Math SOL.  Down from 22% last year.  Is that the better academic environment you would be referring to that surpasses the area private schools?[/quote]

OK, I regularly bash ACPS, but this math SOL score you cite is bullshit. It's because they push more 8th graders into Algebra -- so the sample size of kids taking "math" is tiny to begin with.[/quote]

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