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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps some of the south arlington "bashing" is from current south arlington parents dismayed at the quality of resources and the focus of under performing south arlington schools. Perhaps it is parents whose kids are bored out of their mind because the teachers spend the whole day constantly trying to help the lower SES kids and the rest of the kids just sit there. Perhaps it is that resources to help the kids who are behind by far outnumber resources for kids who are not behind, but would certainly benefit from an additional push too. I am one of those parents and there are a lot of us. We would love to live in all the new development people talk about in south arlington, but many of those new places are not geared towards families, as most condos are not. The only development for families is low income housing.

People love to talk about how great APS is, but only half of the school district is great, the other half sucks. It is hard to believe it is the same school district. It reflects the segregation in arlington.[/quote]

I believe this strongly about APS. I think it has strong schools in North Arlington, but if you compare South Arlington and Alexandria and they're about the same -  high achieving kids in certain groups at South APS schools, but the majority are lower achieving kids. APS has a similar achievement gap as Alexandria, but since it is such a big district, it gets to segregate its kids because higher SES kids are all generally concentrated in the northern part of the district. [/quote]

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