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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 PP.. I am the child of Est African refugees to the US in 1990 and this was very true for our culture, education was and continues to be paramount. Our income was low at that time, but the emphasis on education was so powerful and parents did everything in their power to support me in school (spoke to teachers, brought supplementary books home and taught me themselves). Income and SES is not always indicative of poor test scores.
PARCC scores are more problematic because they do not align with what is taught by MCPS (or more importantly, not Taught). 
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So true. I often volunteer at the book fair at my childrens' school, an objectively high needs elementary school that receives Focus funding from the county. It is invariably the East African and Middle Eastern parents, some of whom I see dropping their kids off in taxi cabs, asking whether the book fair has books on computer programming or math enrichment. These are poor families, but their priority is on making sure only one generation is in poverty in the United States. [/quote]

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