Can "bad" schools get better?

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Anonymous wrote:Op - assuming you are defining "good" or "bad" based on academic performance, I think the answer to your question is "not likely." In my view, the MCPS has turned the corner already. Its good days are behind us.

This.

+1. If you have young children, I'd recommend you look around other school districts.

OP, when the PPs say, "MCPS's good days are behind us," what they mean is: the population of Montgomery County is becoming less white, less affluent, and less native-born.

Well hate to burst your bubble but less white, less affluent, less native born = lower test scores, more resources used on FARMS, ESL, and less attention your average kid is going to get in the classroom. It also equals more crime, higher taxes and a decrease in real estate prices. So you can cry racism but MC has a lot to be concerned about that more affluent white people are leaving (7% decrease since 2000) and the increase in poor hispanics is 3x the amount since 1995. SES makes a big difference in a school district and community.

OMG! Are you that same crazy ass white lady who asked the Sligo middle school principal if there was white flight in Silver Spring?
And this was at an ES PTA meeting!
Even the white folk looked at her line she was crazy!!!

I was at that meeting too! (Not the pp). That was a crazy moment.

What the hell was her point and what was the principal supposed to do about it, start a get the white people back campaign??
WTF????

I know that other parents followed up with the principal afterwards to ask what he thought her point was. As I understood it, she wanted to know if people were going to private school instea of Sligo.

So she wanted to know if WHITE people were choosing private over Sligo. And she can want to know that, that can be important to her. But to ask that of a person of color in a room populated with all kinds of people of color, shows a real disconnect and lack of understanding of other people's feelings and their value. She might as well say the school is bad if all the white folk are leaving and that if there is a lot of people of color, diminished quality of education and environment is a given.
Not only that, she should have asked if there was black flight as well, being there was only a 2% difference in the caucasian and black populations, according to the stats shown in the presentation.
People like her mess up the good thing we have that school, it's inclusive, friendly and her attitude is not needed.

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So honestly what is the overall vibe on Sligo Middle currently and in the future..seems they are trying to improve things and its a fairly small school which would seem
to help..

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Anonymous wrote:Op - assuming you are defining "good" or "bad" based on academic performance, I think the answer to your question is "not likely." In my view, the MCPS has turned the corner already. Its good days are behind us.

This.

+1. If you have young children, I'd recommend you look around other school districts.

OP, when the PPs say, "MCPS's good days are behind us," what they mean is: the population of Montgomery County is becoming less white, less affluent, and less native-born.

Well hate to burst your bubble but less white, less affluent, less native born = lower test scores, more resources used on FARMS, ESL, and less attention your average kid is going to get in the classroom. It also equals more crime, higher taxes and a decrease in real estate prices. So you can cry racism but MC has a lot to be concerned about that more affluent white people are leaving (7% decrease since 2000) and the increase in poor hispanics is 3x the amount since 1995. SES makes a big difference in a school district and community.

OMG! Are you that same crazy ass white lady who asked the Sligo middle school principal if there was white flight in Silver Spring?
And this was at an ES PTA meeting!
Even the white folk looked at her line she was crazy!!!

I was at that meeting too! (Not the pp). That was a crazy moment.

What the hell was her point and what was the principal supposed to do about it, start a get the white people back campaign??
WTF????

I know that other parents followed up with the principal afterwards to ask what he thought her point was. As I understood it, she wanted to know if people were going to private school instea of Sligo.

So she wanted to know if WHITE people were choosing private over Sligo. And she can want to know that, that can be important to her. But to ask that of a person of color in a room populated with all kinds of people of color, shows a real disconnect and lack of understanding of other people's feelings and their value. She might as well say the school is bad if all the white folk are leaving and that if there is a lot of people of color, diminished quality of education and environment is a given.
Not only that, she should have asked if there was black flight as well, being there was only a 2% difference in the caucasian and black populations, according to the stats shown in the presentation.
People like her mess up the good thing we have that school, it's inclusive, friendly and her attitude is not needed.

I agree. I was just reporting what I think her question was getting at. At one point she corrected herself and said she meant if people (not just white) were fleeing but she had already put her foot in her mouth. She seemed very clueless.