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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Honestly, it's not about race.  Frankly, it's one of the things I don't like about other areas -- they're SO white.  And it's one of the reasons we like BCC over Whitman.  That said, the ESOL thing concerns me because I would imagine that a school with a high proportion of ESOL kids is going to need to spend resources on that, and resources are obviously finite.  The FARMS thing is just frankly one metric that's routinely considered when trying to get a picture of schools.  Whether you like it or not, kids from disadvantaged backgrounds on the whole have less parental involvement, greater learning challenges, etc.  Yes, it sounds terrible to say it, but it is what it is.  I looked at the test scores at one point, and they were much lower as well, but the MoCo webiste seems to be down right now, so I can't access those.

As far as BCC drawing from the same pools, while that may be, it's also drawing from the rest of CC and part of Bethesda, which means that as a percent of the kids, the disadvantaged kids are a smaller pool. I also feel that middle school is an especially challenging time for kids, and so the make-up of the kids for those years is particularly important to me, in a way that's it's not as much in the k-2 or even HS years.  [/quote]

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