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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are probably still reading now but you probably won't be for long, so let me sneak in this primer: It's a very large (150,000 students, 25 high schools), historically high-performing school district going through a lot of demographic change. It used to be a primarily white,[b] upper-middle class suburban district[/b]. Along with the rest of the country it has become increasingly minority and, in some areas, lower income over the years. It is currently implementing what it calls "Curriculum 2.0," which is its brand of the Common Core that other states are adopting. Since it is such a large school district, schools differ tremendously demographically by where in the county you live. There is a large achievement gap along race and class lines. Housing prices tend to follow these lines as well, i.e. some very high performing schools with very high home prices, and many more modest homes with schools with more average performance. The country tries to allocate resources so the schools in the less wealthy areas have smaller class sizes in the early years to help improve outcomes.[/quote]

Montgomery County was not historically an upper-middle class suburban school district. Many of the areas that comprise the county were, and still are mid- to lower-middle class and some areas were downright rural and poor. This is one of the myths that some people like to circulate about MoCo and is evident when you go outside of the Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac areas. There is nothing upper middle class about much of Silver Spring, the original Takoma Park, Clarksburg, Gaithersburg and others. Real estate is every expensive here in the DC area but there is no need in convincing ourselves that those 1,000 square foot ramblers were upper middle class dwellings.[/quote]

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