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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah. There was not enough time to improve the school before my kids were going to be done with it. And my neighbors didn't agree with my judgment that it needed to be improved. They thought it was fine. So, please forgive me for not wanting to spend all my time fighting to improve the school when I could afford to move and spend that time with my kids instead.  You are correct that I gave up and moved. I know that lots of kids who don't have anyone to speak for them are at a disadvantage as a result. I know as well as anyone because they were in class with my kids for 3 years. But I never agreed to take that on when I moved to S. Arlington. And no one else was taking up that flag with me. So I left.  Don't blame me. Blame the affordable housing lobby, blame Arlington politics, blame hapless but well intentioned VOICE advocates. [/quote]

I didn't say you had to stay. But don't come on here and complain anonymously and never name the exact school and never speak out in any place or in any way that will make a real difference. [/quote]

Do- the point is, it won’t make a difference and you will be called a racist for your troubles. [/quote]

It will make a difference if enough people who've experience this firsthand speak up. If you can't do better than complaining anonymously on here then you are being pretty cowardly. [/quote]

It won't. [b]my guess is you are a sa parent with a preschool aged kid and think that if other parents before you had raised a fuss years ago things would be different for you, now. [/b]It's wishful thinking. These schools are so unbalanced. There's just no way to give SA middle class kids with a lot of academic ability a comparable classroom experience to NA. Everyone who has direct experience knows this.  It's just a total mismatch. The reality is that when you've got 4 kids who have been going to preschool since age 2 or 3 in the same classroom with 16 ESL kids whose parents might have graduated high school in a country that they don't even want to live in and left, the majority gets the attention and instruction and the school is geared to their needs and wants.

Saying that UMC should stick their neck out to make these schools "better" against insurmountable odds, is like telling recent immigrants to do the same with schools in their home country. Everyone wants opportunities for their kids, and will move to where those opportunities are if they can.[/quote]

I'm not, but thanks for playing. I think you are a lazy parent. Lazy and expecting that GS 10 to do all the work for you. Spoiler alert: donkeys don't turn into horses when you put them in a nicer stable. [/quote]

So either way- you’re an ass. :lol:  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]
+1  :thumbup: [/quote]

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