Why are schools better in the suburbs than in the city?

[Anonymous]

Why are you talking about schools full of poor people? The OP asked about Ward 3 schools and there aren't any schools with lots of poor people in Ward 3. Well there's Eaton and Hearst, they have some.

[Anonymous]

Ward 3 might be well off, but DCPS in general isn't. A school doesn't operate in a vacuum, it is run by the school district, which responds to pressure from the parents.

[Anonymous]

DCPS has de facto "busing" (i.e. the out-of-boundary process). Any decent DCPS school has an incredibly high number of OOB kids. If MCPS schools allowed kids from the poorest areas of PG county to attend their best schools, it would have a seriously negative impact on school quality.

Almost nothing to do with DCPS and everything to do with school population. There's a reason suburban school districts have hard and fast rules about districts. They're there to enforce modern-day segregation.

[Anonymous]

DCPS has de facto "busing" (i.e. the out-of-boundary process). Any decent DCPS school has an incredibly high number of OOB kids. If MCPS schools allowed kids from the poorest areas of PG county to attend their best schools, it would have a seriously negative impact on school quality.

The better experiment would be to allow a certain significant percentage of kids from **MoCo's** Langley Park, New Hampshire Estates, etc. attend Somerset and Bradley Hills every single year as a matter of right. Let's say at least 25% of the OOB kids had to be poor, likely ESL and FARMS. The real test then would be if Bethesda and Somerset ES could put up the exact same test results as they do now with 100% non-FARMS, non-ESL kids.

[Anonymous]

Poor suburbs have the same problem as poor inner city areas. Our inner suburbs are very wealthy in contrast to the rest of the nation.

Wealthy suburbs have money, educated and motivated parents, and motivated students. But make no mistake, poor suburbs and towns have the same challenges that the city does.

[Anonymous]

This is America
Citizens A get to go to private school
Citizens from class B get to attend fancy public
Citizens from class C get gutter education

America is behind the industrialized nations. Pisa tests rate American education to the level of 3rd world countries.

Dumb nation

[Anonymous]

The better experiment would be to allow a certain significant percentage of kids from **MoCo's** Langley Park, New Hampshire Estates, etc. attend Somerset and Bradley Hills every single year as a matter of right. Let's say at least 25% of the OOB kids had to be poor, likely ESL and FARMS.

hahaha!!! yeah, despite how "progressive" MC residents love to tout themselves as being, I imagine we'd see pigs fly before this happened. It certainly would do a lot to help even out the western vs. eastern school situations and frankly then put many more neighborhoods w/in reasonable commuting distance of DC into consideration for middle class families. But like I said - that would never happen.