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[quote=Anonymous]You read many of the awful comments on these threads, many/ most posted by parents at "10" schools. Do you really want your kid around that? You have to think their children are picking up this way of thinking. 
We'll happily stay in our low rated school. 
The earlier posters aren't wrong necessarily. Even if more people with young kids move in, there is an overwhelming amount of low income housing zoned to a few schools in South Arlington. Even if every middle class, single family home sent their kids to those schools, it's unlikely to reach a critical mass. Those scores aren't likely to budge unless some of the huge swaths of cheap, older housing is demolished. Please understand that the county is fighting tooth and nail to keep that from happening. It will be seen as an abject failure on the county board's part if apartment buildings like filmore and Barcroft were to be bulldozed to make way for new upscale housing. Don't move to south Arlington expecting that to happen. There are only plans to bring more affordable housing in, not less. 
We have great teachers and a caring community, but I don't think we'll be seeing high test scores anytime soon. [/quote]

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