Where are all you families of high performing students planning on moving to?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Really I don't want to brag but my child is pretty smart (5.1 GPA, JV Athletics, anime club etc etc) high preforming, and perfect SAT/ACT/LSATs.
And I don't want them getting dumbed down by these poor kids.
Cmon just being real.
I also give a little money to my dear Alma Mater in Boston so I'm not that worried about them getting into college.
So I hear good things about Howard but they're too many Asians and schools are filling up like tuna cans there too.
The kids have to stay smart, at the top of there class. Those asians are too smart high performing. Frederick is nice too but I'll miss waking to drybar, Kapnos, Lululemon and all the other luxuries in bethesda row. Seriously any other suggestions??

If only my trash could take itself out to the curb every week then my life would be complete. Bye Becky!
Nice try but apparently you haven’t walked to Kapnos in a while since it’s gone. Work harder on your trolling next time.

Of course I haven't b/c I included it as a joke along with perfect LSATs etc. and white insecurity. Take a look at the first letter of each paragraph for my true feelings. All you folks thinking of leaving should go. Good riddance.

lol we are sweetie that's the reason MCPS is going downhill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really I don't want to brag but my child is pretty smart (5.1 GPA, JV Athletics, anime club etc etc) high preforming, and perfect SAT/ACT/LSATs.
And I don't want them getting dumbed down by these poor kids.
Cmon just being real.
I also give a little money to my dear Alma Mater in Boston so I'm not that worried about them getting into college.
So I hear good things about Howard but they're too many Asians and schools are filling up like tuna cans there too.
The kids have to stay smart, at the top of there class. Those asians are too smart high performing. Frederick is nice too but I'll miss waking to drybar, Kapnos, Lululemon and all the other luxuries in bethesda row. Seriously any other suggestions??

Nice try but apparently you haven’t walked to Kapnos in a while since it’s gone. Work harder on your trolling next time.

Of course I haven't b/c I included it as a joke along with perfect LSATs etc. and white insecurity. Take a look at the first letter of each paragraph for my true feelings. All you folks thinking of leaving should go. Good riddance.

lol we are sweetie that's the reason MCPS is going downhill

MCPS is going downhill because ya'll leaving ? LOL
In that case don't let the door hits you, where the Good Lord split ya'll, on the way out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this panic all from the county THINKING about putting "poors" in your precious schools?

Don't forget the Jubilation from the DCC who think they might get to offload some of their poors on the hated Ws. A twofer, what could be better

Yes there is some of a realestate bump from not having to go to school with poor kids, but FYI most of the bump is having to live near them and that isn't going away no matter how MoCo schools mixes their boarders.

Posters on DCUM keep asserting that, and I don't understand, because I have seen no evidence of it. It seems like projection, to me.

Funny I see lots of “why should we have to shoulder all the burden”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really I don't want to brag but my child is pretty smart (5.1 GPA, JV Athletics, anime club etc etc) high preforming, and perfect SAT/ACT/LSATs.
And I don't want them getting dumbed down by these poor kids.
Cmon just being real.
I also give a little money to my dear Alma Mater in Boston so I'm not that worried about them getting into college.
So I hear good things about Howard but they're too many Asians and schools are filling up like tuna cans there too.
The kids have to stay smart, at the top of there class. Those asians are too smart high performing. Frederick is nice too but I'll miss waking to drybar, Kapnos, Lululemon and all the other luxuries in bethesda row. Seriously any other suggestions??

Nice try but apparently you haven’t walked to Kapnos in a while since it’s gone. Work harder on your trolling next time.

Of course I haven't b/c I included it as a joke along with perfect LSATs etc. and white insecurity. Take a look at the first letter of each paragraph for my true feelings. All you folks thinking of leaving should go. Good riddance.

lol we are sweetie that's the reason MCPS is going downhill

MCPS is going downhill because ya'll leaving ? LOL
In that case don't let the door hits you, where the Good Lord split ya'll, on the way out.

You're right!

xoxo

God

[Anonymous]

The county would at least be a kinder place with few segregationists.

[Anonymous]

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Not really. truth is there have always been ghettos, there has always been under-classes, there has always been little hope for ways out for the people at the bottom and capitalism at its very core requires an exploited class (producing) AND a working poor class ( distributing) that comprises a very large segment of society. Someone has to sell shoes and sweep floors

You can pick different winners and losers or shine the spot light on specific disenfranchised and effect local change but it is all redistribution at some point. The studies you speak of, talk losely about individual social mobility for specific children who benefit from want amounts to supplementing/subsidizing their exsistince to replicate a higher standard of living. That has show to increase the likely hood of better results for kids with lower expectations. That said those kids still fail at greater rates and the rate of return hasn’t been analyzed to show if other methods shed greater results. That and there isn’t enough $$$ to treat all the poor kids to the rich kid lifestyle so those kids shipped to “good schools” will leave bad schools full of kids behind.

Good heavens, a Marxist on the DCUM MD Public Schools forum, in 2019.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The county would at least be a kinder place with few segregationists.

Yep. They all can move to NoVa or HoCo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost certainly won’t move. I went to lousy public schools and turned out fine. Motivated high-achieving students will do fine anywhere. Plus it’s good to go to diverse schools—helps you learn how to deal with people of different backgrounds and with different approaches to life.

If we moved anyplace, it would be DC, just for shorter commutes as we both work downtown.

My hard-working daughter kept asking why everyone around her received As - and why the majority of the school made honor roll.

We're in Frederick now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this panic all from the county THINKING about putting "poors" in your precious schools?

For some, I think that is what it is about. For me, as a child of busing, I actually specifically chose where I live in MoCo so that my child can attend high quality schools without having to take a bus ever.

I would also say that, as a child of busing, while it was a good experience in many ways, I was also exposed to things at a very young age that I shouldn't have been and that still stay with me today (stabbings, gun suicides, gang fights, etc.). Sure that is the "real world", but the world where this stuff doesn't happen is also the "real world" too.

Beyond that, my kid has a hard time concentrating in class and adding more kids that act out in class to distract her from her work is not going to help her education. It actually actively hurts.

I have also learned over time that the difference between bad schools and great schools is not the hardware, but the software. It's like that chemistry that makes a winning sports team. It is hard to get and requires the time, money and dedication of a lot of people. If there are perceived to be free riders (as they say in economics), then what happens over time is that the impetus for parent to donate and volunteer, and for the teachers themselves to go the extra mile gets diminished.

The solution to poverty is not to try and dilute it, because that doesn't work, but to address its causes.

One of the causes of poverty is high-poverty areas. One of the solutions is de-concentrating poverty. And it does work.

So it works when you tell a brown child that his/her neighborhood and school are bad. So s/he will be sent to a majority white school b/c it's better.

So instead of improving a neighborhood and empowering people to take ownership of their community, we blow the community apart through busing.

yeah - That's worked very well for us over the past few decades, right?

[Anonymous]

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So it works when you tell a brown child that his/her neighborhood and school are bad. So s/he will be sent to a majority white school b/c it's better.

So instead of improving a neighborhood and empowering people to take ownership of their community, we blow the community apart through busing.

yeah - That's worked very well for us over the past few decades, right?

Yes, there's nothing so empowering for poor people as a neighborhood full of poor people. That's why Lyttonsville (for example) was among the first to get electricity, water, sewer, and paved roads. Wait, what?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Almost certainly won’t move. I went to lousy public schools and turned out fine. Motivated high-achieving students will do fine anywhere. Plus it’s good to go to diverse schools—helps you learn how to deal with people of different backgrounds and with different approaches to life.

If we moved anyplace, it would be DC, just for shorter commutes as we both work downtown.

My hard-working daughter kept asking why everyone around her received As - and why the majority of the school made honor roll.

We're in Frederick now.

I'm ok with that, you're ok with that - win-win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this panic all from the county THINKING about putting "poors" in your precious schools?

Don't forget the Jubilation from the DCC who think they might get to offload some of their poors on the hated Ws. A twofer, what could be better

Yes there is some of a realestate bump from not having to go to school with poor kids, but FYI most of the bump is having to live near them and that isn't going away no matter how MoCo schools mixes their boarders.

Posters on DCUM keep asserting that, and I don't understand, because I have seen no evidence of it. It seems like projection, to me.

Funny I see lots of “why should we have to shoulder all the burden”

I haven't seen that at all. NP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The county would at least be a kinder place with few segregationists.

Yep. They all can move to NoVa or HoCo

Brain Drain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost certainly won’t move. I went to lousy public schools and turned out fine. Motivated high-achieving students will do fine anywhere. Plus it’s good to go to diverse schools—helps you learn how to deal with people of different backgrounds and with different approaches to life.

If we moved anyplace, it would be DC, just for shorter commutes as we both work downtown.

My hard-working daughter kept asking why everyone around her received As - and why the majority of the school made honor roll.

We're in Frederick now.

So your DD worked hard but couldn't get straight As but everyone else around her were getting As? Maybe she needed to work harder? Maybe there are lots of fairly smart kids in the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost certainly won’t move. I went to lousy public schools and turned out fine. Motivated high-achieving students will do fine anywhere. Plus it’s good to go to diverse schools—helps you learn how to deal with people of different backgrounds and with different approaches to life.

If we moved anyplace, it would be DC, just for shorter commutes as we both work downtown.

My hard-working daughter kept asking why everyone around her received As - and why the majority of the school made honor roll.

We're in Frederick now.

So your DD worked hard but couldn't get straight As but everyone else around her were getting As? Maybe she needed to work harder? Maybe there are lots of fairly smart kids in the school?

Let me let you in on a little secret. Not all As in fact have the same value within a class as they are weighted by a student’s SES. Signed MCPS teacher.