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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I'm happy with the considerable diversity at Yorktown, the fact that minority students do better at our school than at other schools in Arlington, and the fact that we don't argue, like the W-L parents, that test scores should be "controlled" to exclude the non-white students.  White parents at W-L are the last people on earth who should be accusing others of racism.  Your entire pitch seems to be aimed at recruiting more wealthy whites to the W-L neighborhoods by suggesting only their kids will matter there and the kids who struggle are just background noise.  [/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I never argued to exclude non-white students scores. The non-white students scores for W-L are actually close to if not equal to Yorktown's minority scores when broken down by race. No one's denying the standardized scores for Yorktown are better overall, but there is no night and day difference as some people on here have stated. And I think most people know that Yorktown is an incredibly diverse school compared with other DC suburban schools. I'm a huge fan of Yorktown. And I've only heard great things about both Yorktown and W-L until the past few days on this forum. The college placement at both schools is excellent, and the SAT and AP scores are great too.... On to your comment about accusations of racism, I think only the "Centrevile mom" accused an Arlington poster of racism, not a W-L parent.

And while "you never know" as the saying goes, I highly doubt white parents in the W-L district are trying to "recruit" wealthy whites to the W-L neighborhoods, as you claim. No one needs to recruit anyone to move to N Arlington, because its so popular. Every week in the Arlington SunGazette there are ads for homes that include both the Yorktown and W-L pyramids in the descriptions. W-L's been 41-42% white and 30% poor for the past 15 years. It's been fairly balanced in terms of demographics and has always been a popular school. Anyways, tons of wealthy white people are moving into all the North Arlington neighborhoods regardless of the high schools reputations. The elementary schools are overflowing and the diversity at all the Arlington schools is decreasing.

To all the Arlington posters: stop basing eachother and eachothers' schools, which are actually all quite good. At least until we see those new high schools boundaries that will bring down everyone's property values. [/quote]

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