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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please take all of the information here with a grain of salt. A lot of parents who haven't had experience with the title 1 schools  (or  a few who had a bad experience with one school and removed their children) like to post and denigrate all of them. They sayt that all of the attention is at the "bottom"  and that kids who are in the middle or more privileged will be left behind.  I have a child in upper elementary at one of the schools on the list to "avoid" from a previous post.  My daughter has 18 kids in her class. The teacher has offered to do check ins  (which often last 30 minutes) weekly with the student and a parent for any family who is interested.  These are mostly slotted into Mondays. DD  (who is white, English speaking and not identified as gifted and generally at, just behind or just above grade level) has regular interventions in small groups and one on on with the teacher to target math, reading and writing skills where she needs support and/or to ensure understanding. The teacher sends an update  through seesaw every day on what work should have been done, congratulating kids who finished and reminder others to complete it.  DD is behind where I would like her to be academically but this has more to do with the pandemic and last spring and the world then our specific school. In fact, our experience has been much better than that of parents I've talked to from some of the welathier N. Arlington schools.  One experience, but just food for thought.  No direct experience with Hoffman Boston.  [/quote]

I have heard of title 1 schools having issues with “teaching to the bottom,” but I have never heard that complaint when it comes to Arlington title 1 schools. In fact I have heard better things from the parents of HB parents than I have from a lot north Arlington schools. [/quote]

Often that is the result of which parents you are talking to. Here is what I have observed over the years

Grades K - 1 - "We LOVE the school! It's awesome. The teachers are amazing. My child is reading 3 grade levels ahead!

Grade 2 - "We really like the school. The teachers try their best to accommodate our child. We are looking into [b]the TAG program [/b]because we really feel it will benefit Larlo..."

Grade 3 - "The teachers really do their best but with so many kids behind it can be difficult. The principal is responsive when I raise a concern.  We thought the TAG program would be more robust. We have started tutoring/Mathnasium/Kumon/ just for extra challenge."

Grade 4 - 5 "It's a nice school. Our kids have made some really good friends. They do a lot for the community and make sure that FARMS kids have school supplies and reading books at home.  There is a lot of focus on catching up the kids that are behind. It's seems to be overwhelming to the teachers at times to juggle all those needs. We are looking forward to middle school and checking out the options available to us. " OR "We are looking at private schools for next year. Just trying to think ahead to high school" OR " We are planning to put our house on the market in the spring. Prices are really skyrocketing and we think now is a good time to sell"[/quote]

Thanks for posting from Maryland in the 1980s! They don’t call it TAG here! OP, this person has no personal experience in Arlington schools. Also, look at the test scores by demographic for individual schools . There are major discrepancies between students eligible for fr/l and those who are not, as well as major discrepancies by race and English speaking status. If they only taught to the bottom or middle, the scores of the non disadvantaged non ELL students wouldn’t be as high as they are, and wouldn’t be on par with the students at non Title 1 schools. [/quote]

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