Anonymous
04/04/2021 09:40
Subject: Jamestown Elementary
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jamestown has been the Arlington public elementary school of choice for the rich for decades. That won't be changing any time soon. Its test score are off the charts because its population is very wealthy and very privileged. It is severely lacking in diversity and has a reputation for being super snooty. Any North Arlington public elementary school provides an equally solid education without all of that.
And there are also south Arlington schools that offer "an equally solid education without all of that" and with diversity that is absent from most (almost all) north Arlington elementary schools.
Diversity isn't inherently a virtue.
And some South Arlington schools aren't very diverse at all. They're majority Hispanic, for example.
The irony is Yorktown HS's demographics most closely match those of Arlington County.
Arlington County, but not APS
Interesting. Good point! (Assuming this is accurate...)
Yorktown 12% kids on free lunch; APS 29% kids free lunch
Yorktown 64% white; APS 44% white
Yorktown 5% black; APS 10% black
Yorktown 15% Hispanic; APS 29% Hispanic
APS neighborhood high schools remain fairly segregated by race; while the overall high school population is 43% white, we have one high school that is 24% white, one that is 44% white, and one that is 64% white.
Jamestown, by the way, is 79% white, compared to 45% of APS elementary students, and only 3% of kids are on free lunch.
Now do demographics of Arlington County as a whole. That’s the more significant metric.
Of course it's not. That's just something people at Yorktown and Yorktown feeders like to say to make themselves feel better about the segregation in the school system. The relevant metric is the demographics of the KIDS in public schools. Most people in Arlington don't have kids in school.
Anonymous
04/04/2021 09:36
Subject: Jamestown Elementary
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jamestown has been the Arlington public elementary school of choice for the rich for decades. That won't be changing any time soon. Its test score are off the charts because its population is very wealthy and very privileged. It is severely lacking in diversity and has a reputation for being super snooty. Any North Arlington public elementary school provides an equally solid education without all of that.
And there are also south Arlington schools that offer "an equally solid education without all of that" and with diversity that is absent from most (almost all) north Arlington elementary schools.
Diversity isn't inherently a virtue.
And some South Arlington schools aren't very diverse at all. They're majority Hispanic, for example.
The irony is Yorktown HS's demographics most closely match those of Arlington County.
Arlington County, but not APS
Interesting. Good point! (Assuming this is accurate...)
Yorktown 12% kids on free lunch; APS 29% kids free lunch
Yorktown 64% white; APS 44% white
Yorktown 5% black; APS 10% black
Yorktown 15% Hispanic; APS 29% Hispanic
APS neighborhood high schools remain fairly segregated by race; while the overall high school population is 43% white, we have one high school that is 24% white, one that is 44% white, and one that is 64% white.
Jamestown, by the way, is 79% white, compared to 45% of APS elementary students, and only 3% of kids are on free lunch.
Now do demographics of Arlington County as a whole. That’s the more significant metric.
Anonymous
04/04/2021 09:32
Subject: Jamestown Elementary
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jamestown has been the Arlington public elementary school of choice for the rich for decades. That won't be changing any time soon. Its test score are off the charts because its population is very wealthy and very privileged. It is severely lacking in diversity and has a reputation for being super snooty. Any North Arlington public elementary school provides an equally solid education without all of that.
And there are also south Arlington schools that offer "an equally solid education without all of that" and with diversity that is absent from most (almost all) north Arlington elementary schools.
Diversity isn't inherently a virtue.
And some South Arlington schools aren't very diverse at all. They're majority Hispanic, for example.
The irony is Yorktown HS's demographics most closely match those of Arlington County.
Arlington County, but not APS
Why yes. That is what I said.
You want to mirror the COUNTY demographics. Wakefield is too homogeneous.
Anonymous
04/04/2021 09:26
Subject: Jamestown Elementary
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jamestown has been the Arlington public elementary school of choice for the rich for decades. That won't be changing any time soon. Its test score are off the charts because its population is very wealthy and very privileged. It is severely lacking in diversity and has a reputation for being super snooty. Any North Arlington public elementary school provides an equally solid education without all of that.
And there are also south Arlington schools that offer "an equally solid education without all of that" and with diversity that is absent from most (almost all) north Arlington elementary schools.
Diversity isn't inherently a virtue.
And some South Arlington schools aren't very diverse at all. They're majority Hispanic, for example.
The irony is Yorktown HS's demographics most closely match those of Arlington County.
Arlington County, but not APS
Interesting. Good point! (Assuming this is accurate...)
Yorktown 12% kids on free lunch; APS 29% kids free lunch
Yorktown 64% white; APS 44% white
Yorktown 5% black; APS 10% black
Yorktown 15% Hispanic; APS 29% Hispanic
APS neighborhood high schools remain fairly segregated by race; while the overall high school population is 43% white, we have one high school that is 24% white, one that is 44% white, and one that is 64% white.
Jamestown, by the way, is 79% white, compared to 45% of APS elementary students, and only 3% of kids are on free lunch.
Anonymous
04/02/2021 21:12
Subject: Re:Jamestown Elementary
Anonymous wrote:I happen to know that the PTA and parents really take care of the teachers too! My friend used to teach there and her "Teacher Appreciation Gifts" were things like a gift certificate to Rose's Luxury and tickets to the Kennedy Center. She got gift cards to Lululemon, Nordstrom, Kendra Scott, etc for holidays. Georgetown Cupcakes on her birthday. I was so envious!! At my school, I get a little potted plant and a starbucks card for Teacher Appreciation.
So they know how to retain their teachers too!
With cupcakes?
Anonymous
04/02/2021 21:09
Subject: Jamestown Elementary
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jamestown has been the Arlington public elementary school of choice for the rich for decades. That won't be changing any time soon. Its test score are off the charts because its population is very wealthy and very privileged. It is severely lacking in diversity and has a reputation for being super snooty. Any North Arlington public elementary school provides an equally solid education without all of that.
And there are also south Arlington schools that offer "an equally solid education without all of that" and with diversity that is absent from most (almost all) north Arlington elementary schools.
Diversity isn't inherently a virtue.
And some South Arlington schools aren't very diverse at all. They're majority Hispanic, for example.
The irony is Yorktown HS's demographics most closely match those of Arlington County.
Arlington County, but not APS
Interesting. Good point! (Assuming this is accurate...)
Anonymous
04/01/2021 21:38
Subject: Jamestown Elementary
I’ve heard it is a good place if your kid has an iep. But alas we couldn’t afford it.