Are they still updating MCPS Schools at a Glance?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This. And I think they need to stop posting the demographics across racial groups too. Sadly, lots of people purposely seek out schools that have the least number of Black/Hispanic students.

This is federally mandated public data. Whether or not MCPS publishes Schools at a Glance the data will still be available.
https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This. And I think they need to stop posting the demographics across racial groups too. Sadly, lots of people purposely seek out schools that have the least number of Black/Hispanic students.

On the other hand as a parent of an AA child, I want to seek out schools that have more than a token AA population.

Maybe as a result of not posting these statistics, more schools would be diverse so that people wouldn't have to worry about being the token minority.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you check all the schools or just yours?

There's a pulldown menu that says "Display Data for Year:" and the most recent year option is 2017-18...

My thinking is that data for 2018-19 hasn’t been aggregated yet.

This notice is now at the top of the page:
The 2018–2019 and 2019–2020 Schools at a Glance documents are currently in production. It is anticipated that the 2018–2019 Schools at a Glance document will be posted by the end of February 2020 and that the 2019–2020 Schools at a Glance document will be posted by the end of March 2020.

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That's good news.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This. And I think they need to stop posting the demographics across racial groups too. Sadly, lots of people purposely seek out schools that have the least number of Black/Hispanic students.

On the other hand as a parent of an AA child, I want to seek out schools that have more than a token AA population.

Maybe as a result of not posting these statistics, more schools would be diverse so that people wouldn't have to worry about being the token minority.

Maybe as a result of not posting these statistics, people will rely heavily on internet gossip which inaccurately reports demographics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This. And I think they need to stop posting the demographics across racial groups too. Sadly, lots of people purposely seek out schools that have the least number of Black/Hispanic students.

On the other hand as a parent of an AA child, I want to seek out schools that have more than a token AA population.

Maybe as a result of not posting these statistics, more schools would be diverse so that people wouldn't have to worry about being the token minority.

Maybe as a result of not posting these statistics, people will rely heavily on internet gossip which inaccurately reports demographics.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This data has been collected and published for years.

[Anonymous]

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Maybe as a result of not posting these statistics, more schools would be diverse so that people wouldn't have to worry about being the token minority.

Maybe as a result of not posting these statistics, people will rely heavily on internet gossip which inaccurately reports demographics.

Yup. Given the choices

1. make the data publicly available, even though people might do stuff with the data that I wish they wouldn't
2. don't make the data publicly available

I'll go with the first choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

You think at a glance is what tells people to avoid silver spring? People have been avoiding silver spring long before computers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This. And I think they need to stop posting the demographics across racial groups too. Sadly, lots of people purposely seek out schools that have the least number of Black/Hispanic students.

On the other hand as a parent of an AA child, I want to seek out schools that have more than a token AA population.

Isn’t it obvious?