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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question about the research that correlates a mother’s education with her child’s educational outcomes.  Do the studies account for the fact that these mothers will do everything they can to get their child into the best school possible?  I am educated and my children will be as well.  I am UMC and bought into a strong upper NW school district when I was pregnant.  My sister, also educated, but not UMC financially managed through a school choice city (Seattle) to get both her children well educated.

Yes, we read in the home and talk to our children constantly, etc., but it is in the nature of mothers to work to get their children an education and it is not through assuming that because they are educated so too will be their children by osmosis.  Rather, it is through making tangible choices to get that education and such choices include avoiding schools with low proficiency levels.

I have no dog in this fight as my kids will be in high school or college by the next boundary review, but I have always been skeptical of this data as I know a lot would have to happen before I sent my child to a low performing school and I am not unique on this front.[/quote]

Yes. I've said this before: People here on DCUM misinterpret the data from these studies. Most families with highly educated mothers aren't putting their children in low performing schools. This wasn't a study of UMC families with highly educated mothers putting their kids into high poverty, low performing DCPS schools. [/quote]

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