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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love Alexandria, but I would have to do private school to live there. No way I am sending my kids to those public schools. I would rather spend the extra money on a house in Falls Church City, McLean or Vienna in order to get into one of those school pyramids.
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Again, someone who does not have their kids in ACPS. I am the person who wrote earlier about staying. OP, again, talk to people with kids in the school. Look up test scores on the VA and isolate out variables that do not apply to your kids such as being economically disadvantaged. How are kids of your child's demographic doing? I bet you will be surprised. 
 
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The problem is when you go to Arlington and Falls Church you encounter *lots* of people who did have children in ACPS, experienced it pretty fully, and elected to leave. This is a reality.

BTW, this line of argument that "your kids will be fine in ACPS because they're white and not one of the poors" is really an offensive take on things. It's like people who cynically believe a child will have a better shot at college admission having survive TC Williams.[/quold te]

You know what else could be called  offensive,  ensuring that every middle class kid continues to leave these schools by fear-mongering comments, thus ensuring more segregation and fewer resources for the school. How differently would these schools  perform  if people didn't flee, but stayed, involved their families in the schools, contributed to the PTAs and helped to slowly change the dynamics, demographic make-up etc. from within?  [/quote]

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