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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a silly argument and everyone is right.

ATS is one of the better elementary schools in APS.

APS is on the decline.

Top privates in the DC area are better quality, but out of reach for many.

Just don’t be a checked-out parent and your kid will be just fine wherever they go to school.[/quote]

Not just APS. [b]ATS is one of the best elementaries in the entire state.[/b] They just got another state award for achievement.

And yes APS is getting better on reading. They’re finally doing what ATS did for years in reading. [/quote]

Have you looked at VA standards? Not too rigorous, are they?

The fact is, American education is kind of a joke compared to many countries. So being at the top of the list in your county, which is near the top of the list in the state, which is in the top half of the nation…

Doesn’t matter all that much when you consider the state of public education in the US compared to the rest of the world.[/quote]

This is really not true. I was just doing some research on schools in the Westchester area and was looking at the stats for Bronxville listed on the school district's website. They have a chart placing the Bronxville school district's test scores within the context of the averages for other countries. Bronxville blew *all* of them out of the water.[/quote]

So....there are some outliers in the US system that are high quality and Arlington is an outlier? Or is Bronxville an outlier?[/quote]

Arlignton is odd in that it’s one town, but has schools that are full of either rich or poor kids. Veyr stark difference. Bronxville is a very wealthy bedroom community of NYC.
Their high school has 522 kids and it’s one of the top high schools in the entire state.  It’s basically a private school for which they pay very high property taxes to go to. Like $30,000 on a house under $2m. [/quote]

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