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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what happens when you concentrate poverty. I hope south Arlington parents do fight for charters. I'll be right there with them. My kid is just as deserving as a kid at Jamestown. A day of reckoning is at hand.[/quote]

Yes, but if your child doesn't get a spot, you are in a worse position than you started in.  Charters do not, by and large, have better outcomes than public schools, and getting a charter spot is not a guarantee.  [/quote]

Trust me, it can't get worse. [/quote]

Niche rated all except 3 Arlington's elementary schools as a top school in the state. The other three schools are listed in the top 250 schools in the state whereas Fairfax's elementary schools are rated all the way down close to 600. The top 10 schools in the state were all Arlington schools. In addition, Arlington is rated the best school system in both the state of Virginia and the metro area and the best rated system for teachers in the metro area and the state of Virginia. All of the high schools except an alternative vocational school and Wakefield are also very highly rated in both the state and the nation on many high school ranking lists. Wakefield is the only low performing school in Arlington and the school was just recently renovated. You think the federal government can do a better job than Arlington Public Schools has done already even though it's a "sanctuary county with many apartment buildings that are getting older"? Why are you blaming the school system for a land use issue? Arlington already pays less in real estate taxes than Fairfax and still is the best rated school system. If you think Arlington County runs their schools so poorly that there is no hope, you really need to get out more. Instead of focusing on charters, time would be better spent on land use issues and overcrowding around the entire county and working towards helping Wakefield's test scores improve. If Wakefield improves, the elementary and middle schools will improve and you will have a completely successful county school system.[/quote]

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