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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Essentially, the new great schools rankings are out and out tools that can be used to violate the fair housing act. It's essentially a way for realtors to identify schools with small black populations, it seems.

Crazy town.[/quote]

This is EXACTLY what GreatSchools has been doing since it was invented. They are actually trying to do better by fiddling with the algorithm to make it clear which schools are actually serving the populations that they have. So, you don't automatically get a 10 for having a student body that is 90% white/Asian with highly educated, high earning, parents who are supplementing outside of school. Instead you ALSO get scored on how you are serving kids not being tutored extensively.

Isn't that what we want? To know which schools are actually effective? If a school is totally failing its poor kids and kids of color, then it is probably also not doing a great job with middle class kids. [/quote]

Except their algorithm isn't working as intended. It's penalizing schools that have a diverse population and rewarding schools that are homogeneously wealthy (and white). Our ES GS score didn't go up, despite the fact that our SOL scores did across the board. Our white students are performing every bit as well as the ones at the "best" schools and our students of color are outperforming students of color at every other school. Our score is lower simply because we have students of color and students who are ESL and other schools don't. The schools that have NO students of color are rated higher, still. So this algorithm is not any better, and actually makes schools that have genuinely diverse populations look worse on paper. [b]This is particularly true for school who have DACA kids.[/b] Like the school is at fault for not making them Harvard-ready within a year.[/quote]

Recipients of DACA are, by definition, those who were physically present in 2012 AND made an application since that time. They have undergone a background check, and are overwhelmingly older than 16.

Find a different boogeyman. [/quote]

Sorry, wrong terminology. I meant unaccompanied minors. And there's nothing the schools can do to get therm testing at the same level as kids who've been here living lives of privilege for their entire lives. [/quote]

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