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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You realize that even in a diverse school, struggling students are usually in very different classes than successful students...right?  The opportunity for role models is small.  When MCPS looked at the differences between Twinbrook ES and the other schools in the RM cluster, Twinbrook parents were (understandably)not convinced their kids would be better off removed from small Title 1 classes to be bussed to a different school where they would have classes 2x the size.  It is a very complex issue. [/quote]
+1  For ES, is it better for a low performing student to be in a large class size with more income diversity or to be in a small class size with less such diversity?  28 students and 1 teacher vs 15 students  and 1 teacher and an aid.

As far as MS goes - other than math, they could be mixed in, but for those MS now with the "sort of magnet" classes, the students will not be mixed, and apparently MCPS wants to put these types of classes in all the non magnet MS, so the separation will exist everywhere.  Also, once you hit HS, that's when higher performing kids really split off from the lower performing ones.

I grew up lower income, and my school was a high FARMs/ESOL school.  When I hit the point where I could take AP classes, most of my classes were separated from the lower performing kids.  The kids who were in my AP classes were pretty high performing from earlier on. Some were lower income like me.  These students were generally high performing from early on. There was no magic formula busing scheme that got us there.[/quote]

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