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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 14:12 and I neglected to mention that the white 5th graders also scored 100% passing rate on ALL of their SOL tests as well (math, science, reading).

Looks to me like the ESOL issue is the issue, not the teaching.  [/quote]

[b]True but think of all the wasted resources being burnt up teaching esol to 50% of the students[/b].[/quote]

This remark makes me sick. Heaven forbid your child need any special resources, ever. Would you say the same thing about special needs kids? Or even gifted kids? Arlington probably "wastes" a lot of resources on all those GT and AP kids....

I, for one, am fine with Arlington providing a good, free education to ALL of its students.

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Good for you, I won't move to a school with more than 25% FARM, but that's just my opinion. I would rather have my kid be challenged by higher performing student then be one of the higher performing students that is attempting to drag up the low performers.[/quote]

I more thing before you call me racist, I am not white, I am a minority of mintorities, mixed race. I dont give a shit about what color the students are, I care about stats and scores. [/quote]

I for one think that focusing just on stats/scores is incredibly short-sighted.  I don't dismiss them entirely but there's more to a school than stats/scores, unless you view children as robots who're fed information and are programmed to regurgitate it quickly and efficiently.[/quote]

That's all the more reason to be careful in considering to send your upper-income kid to a majority low-income school...their state test scores may look alright (due in no small part to what you do at home), but they may be missing out on a lot of the fundamental peer learning and reinforcement that their cohorts are benefitting from in schools with FARMS population in the 30% range or lower (i.e. reflecting the demographic range of the state and county itself). Kids thrive by emulating EVERYONE around them, not just the teachers, and I think that is where a majority low-income school founders, not just for the rich kids but also for the poor kids...really APS should re-structure school boundaries so that all school are no more than 1/3 FARMS...municipalities in other parts of the country have tested this and had great results for everyone...that would mean bussing kids around a little more and providing some county-wide equity....[/quote]

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