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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh
Curriculum is the same through out the county. Either your kid is hitting benchmarks or not. I seriously doubt a superstar south Arlington kid is going to be a year behind if they transfer to Nottingham.[/quote]

I was speaking from the experiences of four different families I have know who have either moved within S. Arlington or to N. Arlington and have said basically the same thing: it's not that kids aren't hitting benchmarks at lower performing schools. It's that some schools are pushing for the kids to be a year above grade level as the benchmark, and others are just pushing to the minimum grade level standard as required by the state. Again, it's not all or even most of the S. Arlington schools that have lower benchmarks for their students, but some of them do (with reason: if the majority of your population is ESL then you can't reasonably expect them to hit the same benchmarks in the same period of time as the children who are fluent in the instructional language out of the gate). When so many kids who are "behind" because they are still learning the language are all clustered in a handful of schools, the benchmarks are going to be different for the school. I am of the opinion that kids aren't really developmentally supposed to be doing a lot of what the standards are requiring, especially at the K level. But as an anxious person by nature, I also understand how easy it is to succumb to the pressure of wanting your child to be getting what their counterparts in other neighborhoods are getting from the public school system. Nobody wants to think their child might be a year behind others in instruction just because of where you live (even if they are "on track," if so many others are being pushed ahead, they are behind in relation). 
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