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Reply to "New boundary study for Churchill, Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, RM, Northwest, Poolesville, QO, SV, WM, Wootton"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If MCPS has good schools with top-notch education programs, FARMS won't matter one way or the other. Parents that care about education will relocate to the county for their children's educational opportunities. It seems MCPS has given up trying to provide top-notch programs. Now their only strategy is to shift around poor people in the hopes of watering down issues at their home schools. However, the assumption that poor=problem is one MCPS CO is making up themselves. Instead the CO should step up and go sit daily at the schools with problems and instead of at Hungerford. And they should sit there, at that school, until it's problems have been fixed.[/quote] This is nonsense. Even in MCPS, there's a direct correlation between test scores and poverty. Schools with the least poverty have the highest averages. Even schools where many kids do as well as anywhere have a lower average because they shoulder more poverty. You can try to pretend it doesn't matter but it really does.[/quote] You are confusing correlation with causation. The kids have high test scores because of their affluent and highly educated parents. Parental background is by far the largest predictor of student performance. This is something that the schools has no control over. Shuffling around students will make the metrics look better, but it will have minimal impact on individual student outcomes. Equal outcomes is impossible unless we put everyone in government run childcare institutions and the kids have no contact with their family.[/quote] "Shuffling around students" actually does have a measurable impact on individual student outcomes for students from low-income families. That has been well-established. Plus, if it has minimal impact on individual student outcomes, why worry about your kids (assuming they have an affluent, highly-educated family) having to go to school with poor kids? [/quote]
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