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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why doesn't WF have Nat'l Merit Scholars? Why don't their students represent AT ALL (forget proportionally) in national, state, even countywide academic awards? Why can't we look at the numbers and work to improve that school rather than denying or rationalizing? Why does S. Arl. put up with (or actively encourage) this?[/quote]

NMSF correlates with the education level of the parents.  If WF doesn't have NMSF, it's because educated parents are sending their kids elsewhere.  WF could be doing an incredible job and it wouldn't matter...if educated parents send their kids elsewhere, WF won't have NMSF.[/quote]

It might help if WF would provide an SAT tutoring program at the school, the type of thing more affluent families routinely pay for.  As the recent NYT article pointed out, affluent families approach the SAT a lot differently than less affluent families who often don't know what they are missing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/opinion/how-i-learned-to-take-the-sat-like-a-rich-kid.html?_r=0[/quote]

How expensive would it be to provide an SAT tutoring program?

I wonder if we could create an overarching PTA program that can help close the gaps for our schools. Our PTA raised a lot of money - exceeding budget needs - and IMO I'd love to see some of that wealth shared across the county. 
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There already is some of that.  Well-funded PTAs can make donations to the County Council of PTAs and schools that need funds can request grants from that. [/quote]

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