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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're at a school that is a GS 6.  When you look at the sub-data, white, Asian, and biracial kids do as well at our school as they do at any other, higher ranked, school.  Kids of color do less well, but they do less well everywhere.

I wish the kids of color were doing better at our school, but I wish they were doing better all around the county.  The specific mix of kids who test well and kids who don't is going to differ between a GS 6 and a GS 8 school, but I'm not convinced it has much to do with the actual education kids are receiving.  My children are getting a good education, with really solid teachers, and peers that are well behaved and respectful, if testing kind of poorly due to language and cultural issues. [/quote]

This seems to be the norm sadly. A high rating is often simply a measure of a school's lack of diversity, and when anyone bothers to dig deeper, they find that lower rated schools perform exactly the same accounting for demographic differences.[/quote]

Sounds like the schools need to figure out how to teach students of color, because the current methods are not working for them.[/quote]

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