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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Campbell is a Title 1 school with 59% free 
and reduced lunch. It also has an innovative 
Expeditionary Learning curriculum, an outdoor ed
program and kids/teachers/parents seem happy there.

It’s hard to know what to think as a parent at a high performing Arlington school who would potentially like to send their child to a diverse school with an EL program and finds many things attractive about Campbell.

Thoughts? 
How significant are the title 1 status and high free and reduced lunch numbers in judging potential quality of school?[/quote]

Less important at self-selecting option schools where parent involvement is high. More so at neighborhood schools where it is t.

I don't think those measures indicate school quality, but they certainly indicate school focus. To attract MC families to these schools, admins need to convince them that their children, who probably all attended preschool and are starting school at or above grade level, are going to be given enough attention and challenge, and not written off with comments like, "they'll be fine". Yes, the disadvantaged kids plain need more help but everyone wants their kid to get a lot of attention. This task is made harder by the absence of tracking. I've heard buzzy phrases like individualized learning in place of tracking but TBH I need to read more to know if its real or just marketing.[/quote]

Tracking needs to happen in south Arlington if they want middle class buy in.[/quote]

No, they will not track. WILL NOT. Except (indirectly) through boundaries that reinforce residential segregation. That's why the most realistic thing is for them to turn the schools with the least amount of UMC buy-in to option schools. That way they ensure a large enough cohort of kids who've had preschool preparation, either through private preschool or VPI, at those schools, so that parents don't have to worry as much about their DC being ignored if they are at or above grade level at Kindergarten. [/quote]

Unfortunately, the schools without middle class buy-in outnumber the option schools. Randolph and probably Barcroft and possibly Drew will be left holding the bag. But even apart from that, the immersion schools need relocation simply for the ratio of native to non native speakers. Key's native Spanish applicants were outnumbered 3 to 1 by non speakers in that spreadsheet aps posted and yanked. Hardly immersive.[/quote]

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