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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Barcroft and agree with much of what PP said. There are lots of people who are sick and tired of the constant drum to build more affordable housing, but the old timers who don’t care and pro affordable housing proponents are extremely quick to call you a racist and put you down. The vocal people in the neighborhood rule the roost. I hate it.

I choice out my kid not because I care about scores, but because I care about learning. I know parents who choice out or simply moved as their kids rose beyond first grade because they were not learning much. It isn’t a lack of teaching to the test, but teaching at all. They teach to the bottom. Teachers in the school have LOW expectations for all kids. Kids were not expected to reach certain milestones, and parents have to be on top of their education too much.

Parents who moved found their kids behind at other Arlington schools, including another title I School. I have heard several Barcroft parents tell me that they pushed super hard to get their kids in the gifted program, even kids who really shouldn’t be there, in order to make sure they got a decent education at Barcroft. I hope the new principle can change that.

In sum, it isn’t that the school and parents don’t care about teaching to the test. What I make from 6 years in this neighborhood and lots of parental comments is that they teach to the bottom.
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This is what I fear, as a parent of kids zoned to this school. All my neighbors who send their kids though are really happy. I can't figure out what to make of the negativity on one side and the positiveness on the other. All I can tell is people with older children who finished 2-3 years ago are all negative and all the people with K-2 graders are really happy with it.[/quote]

Spoiler alert: most parents are fine until third grade. That is when curriculum ramps up and schools starts to become more academic. That’s why you hear neighbors displeased after second grade.[/quote]

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