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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’ll find the same disparity in every one of the larger public school systems in the DMV, including DC itself.  It’s because schools are largely neighborhood based.  Nothing unique about Arlington.

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The elementary schools are neighborhood based.  They need to do away with the option schools and figure out a better way to do the middle and high school boundaries.[/quote]
What do option schools have to do with middle and high school boundaries?  I'm only aware of them being relevant to Spanish immersion, where N. Arlington kids from Escuela Key can stay in immersion at Gunston and Wakefield.  If anything that would help improve the balance.[/quote]

There are elementary option schools.  There shouldn’t be option schools in a public school system.  The resources should be used to make sure the neighborhood schools offer a more equal experience.

Just my opinion.  [/quote][b]Do Key or Claremont get more resources per student than other schools?[/b]  I don't think so.  Option schools just reflect that not all students need exactly the same thing.  I have one kid in immersion and another at the neighborhood school because immersion wouldn't have been a good fit for them.[/quote]

Montessori does with its instructional-philosophy required assistants in every room. Immersion not so technically as you are suggesting; but it takes more financial resources to provide transportation from across the county and requires qualified bilingual teachers. I assume it also requires acquiring educational materials in both languages, which other schools don't require.

I really appreciate your parenting each of your children according to their needs rather than claiming seats for children for whom the program is ill-suited.  I wish more parents would do that. However, that seems to be more common regarding immersion because the academic impacts are more obvious.  HBW, on the other hand, doesn't have the same negative academic impacts and is more about environment; and many are willing and able to keep with the environment even if they would be equally served and successful academically at their neighborhood school.[/quote]

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