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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every child is not worth the same?[/quote]

The answer is no on two fronts.  First, as evidenced so clearly on this thread, wealthy parents deem children from poor and working class families as inferior and so not suitable for playing with Jack and Jane.

Secondly,  kids from poor families go to schools that are essentially ghettos for poverty and so individual schools end up shouldering the burden of very concentrated levels of poverty.  This results in a poorer quality education for all of the students attending these schools because these schools have to expend a great deal of time and resources dealing with the challenges that come from dealing with high levels of poverty within the school population.  The County knows this but opts to do nothing about it because integrating schools by socio economics angers wealthier families and the County cares a great deal more about wealthier tax payers.

In this country if you are poor you matter less.  And that goes for your kids too.[/quote]
so, less well off children are: shunned by the parents in the class
and, the county is happy to dump them in poorly performing schools
i.e. bad schools and nobody cares
zip code + household income = high iq?[/quote]

Sorry to disillusion you, but this is the entire reason [b]we have local school districts[/b], and school boundaries within those school districst[/quote]

Actually we do not have "local school districts" - we have ONE school district, Montgomery County.  (I grew up in New England, where each town has its own local school district, with local control, one town superintendent of schools, and so on - bona fide local school district.)  The whole point of a county-based system is to spread the wealth, and share the resources.  There is no local control in the county-based system and the tradeoff is supposed to be a sharing of wealth, system-wide.[/quote]

I look forward to Churchill and B-CC throwing open their doors to all the students from Northwood.  After all, [b]MCPS is all about "sharing the wealth"[/b] and providing equal opportunity, right?[/quote]

[b]In theory, that is what county-based government is supposed to do, but in practice, as we all know, it doesn't happen.[/b]

I'd take the town-based school system any day.  The local control tradeoff here is not worth it.[/quote]

Exactly.  There'a solution to these kind of income-based (and race-based) educational inequalities.  Busing.  And we all remember how court-ordered busing was received.

The key is, people want inequality that favors their children.  But they also want the illusion that such inequality doesn't exist.
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