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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][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] Exactly! Kids do worse at schools with concentrated poverty. The county needs to do a better job of spreading this more evenly to ensure all schools can offer a good education to those who want that.[/quote] There is no good way to do this beyond busing and rich families aren't going to agree to bussing nor do "poor" families. It really doesn't work well socially either. The county needs to put more resources into the lower preforming schools.[/quote] We are building and staffing new schools to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. This will be a huge benefit to overcrowded, underperforming schools that are stretched thin. That's a great thing. Leave high performing schools alone. Lift the bottom up.[/quote] But top-down works so much better....[/quote] "Trickle down" you mean![/quote]
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