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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP who mentioned that the real difference starts in 2nd grade is spot on. And, to the people who doubt that if one waits too long to leave an under performing SA school, kids will be behind in a high performing school - don't opine unless you have seen it. I know 8 families from my kid's school that left for NA or falls church over the last 5 years. Each kid was behind, lacked the requisite study skills and was no longer the star of,the class in the New school. Yes, same curriculum, but the kids are expected to master the material at different times. The depth of instruction is much different in NA schools because the kids are prepared to learn it. Kids do homework and have additional help at home so more advanced instruction in class. This is generally not the case in SA schools. And the schools I am talking about are not Henry and Oakridge.

Some parts of SA will continue to gentrify, others will not. West of George Mason and the area just to its east is a lost cause. [/quote]

The area just east of George Mason is a super smart buy. That foodstar is going to be torn down and penrose style development is going in. All market rate. If you haven't bought in Arlington yet, I'd be looking in the parts of alcova heights, Douglas park and possibly Barcroft that are walking distance to it. The schools are fine, and will only getter. The lack of choice is the best thing that could happen to those schools. It wouldn't take much for the perception of those schools to change. [/quote]

Isn't that zoned for Randolph? I don't think anyone believes that school is just fine, particularly given recent events.[/quote]

What recent events?
They are getting rid of an underperforming principal? All the more reason to investigate the area. All the boundaries will be redrawn in the next couple of years. I know everyone at Henry is nervous. The SAWG has specifically said SES diversity is a priority. CARD is also now in play. They will be looking to break up some of the most concentrated populations. Also state legislature is changing how esol is tested on SOL's, that's gonna boost south Arlington scores across the board. Now that Randolph's principal has gotten shit canned, you'll see more gaming of the testing and numbers.

Prediction: 
Henry moves ( has some ah island zoned to it) slips to a 7/8 - eveyone still very pleased with quality of education.
Randph - current will change, slowly creeps to 5/6, mc families don't leave for ffx and stick with the school. 
Hoffman Boston - hangs tight and stem focus keeps it treading on an upward projectory.
Drew- becomes a legitimately failing school after Montessori is pulled.
Abingdon- getting renovated, mc families quietly deciding to stay, slowly gentrifies to 6/7 school. 
Barcroft- wildcard. It's been totally fucked by AH. I look at that map and I just can't see how they fix their demographics without the entire south end of the county being bused hither and yon. They do have a strong middle class of home owners, who had up until recently bought into that school. Seriously the county super fucked those guys. Not cool.
They should have a meeting with Randolph parents and all of them just take over Randolph. Barcroft is year round, so they can have kids pupil placed over there. 
I predict this will be reality in 6 years.
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I think this is spot-on. I have a ton of friends zoned for Barcroft and literally none of them are sending their children to Barcroft. Every single family is doing private or choice school. And this includes people of a few different ethnicities. They are just high-achieving families who looked at Barcroft and realized what a cluster it is.

And yeah, I feel like families in that neighborhood got fucked with their pants on by AH for sure. [/quote]

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