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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the problem in APS is the typical North Arlington parent who is highly highly educated themselves and did well in school (at least later on in life) and thus believes their bent towards education and educational success have transmitted to their offspring.

They have trouble accepting their child isn’t gifted amongst their peers —  most of whom would probably qualify as gifted outside this ridiculous cohort.

Just look at the number of people posting on these threads about their child’s amazing scores and writing poetry in kindergarten.   Blah blah blah.

And now that we are all gifted, no one is.  I don’t really fault them but it is a self fulfilling prophecy.    [/quote]

Yes- especially true in the N Arlington elementary schools. You can pull the SOL scores from the VA Dept of Ed website and see that some of those ES have 99% pass rates on the SOLs, with ~50% advance pass rates. The majority of those advance pass kids are capable of scoring a 120 on the NNAT and/or Cogat, and are likely tagged as gifted. To some extent, APS doesn't need to sort the kids in elementary school, because we've already sorted ourselves into higher-performing and lower-performing schools by where we chose to buy our homes. [/quote]

[b]I can't believe that someone even wrote this.  This is exceptionally racist and classist.[/b]  There are plenty of not so bright kids in N Arlington who pass SOLs because of tutors and extra help and lots of very smart kids in less wealthy parts of the county who pass SOLs despite many barriers.[/quote]

Seriously? You can't? You really don't see the differences between these schools? 
I'll grant it points to classism (because poverty and academic achievement does have some correlation); but this was not a racist comment at all. Sure, there are kids in the north who need extra help; but not nearly as many as in our highest poverty schools. So, "plenty of" those "not so bright kids" in a NA school doesn't come close to what you find in most SA schools. The PPP is right - Arlington has sorted itself out quite a bit and both CB and SB intentionally keep it that way....you know....so they can concentrate services where they're needed instead of making them available and easily accessible everywhere.

Low to middling standards to meet + relatively few NA kids "not so bright" + extra tutoring and resources for the majority of students who are already in the middle and above minimal standards = high performing schools with very high pass rates.

Low to middling standards to meet + significantly high proportions of students from poor backgrounds and having to learn English starting out well behind + inability to afford intensive tutoring and fewer resources across the school community = lower and low performing schools with lower and low pass rates.

If you can't - or won't - see that, you are in denial.[/quote]

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