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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course, low-income students do better at schools that lack concentrated poverty. Who wouldn't? There have been hundreds of studies that show this to be true.[/quote]

Shh - don't tell the Republicants. It's funny to hear them complain about these fictions.[/quote]

If poor kids do better when not around other poor kids because poor kids are a distraction, tell me again why poor kids aren’t a distractions to well off kids?

Also how do you do the math when there is 3 poor kids for every rich kid that the schools equal this utopia?

Or is what you want a world where rich kids don’t automatically get what your kid has to test into and cross their fingers that they studied as hard as the Asian kids to avoid all the basic kids doing basic stuff.[/quote]
DP.

the reason why poor kids do better in a school with lower FARMS rate is because of resources.

In a school with high poverty, the needs are greater, and so you need more resources to attend to those needs. But we don't have unlimited resources.

In a school with lower FARMs rate, the needs aren't as great so it's easier to address needs with the resources that currently exist in that school.
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What resources?  Esol teachers are allocated based on the number of students in each school.  It is the same for SE teachers and aids.   The classrooms are smaller in title 1 and focus schools.   There are daycares in HS but I don't know they are for students or not.  [/quote]

[b]We were talking about poor kids, not ESOL or Special Education, weren't we?[/b]

And maybe you think that smaller class sizes in the lower grades in elementary schools fully address the greater needs of schools where lots of students come from poor families, but you won't find many who agree with you.[/quote]
Was just going to reply the same.   Interesting that ^^PP immediately jumped to FARMS = ESOL.

FARMS rate in MCPS is twice the % of ESOL. I guess non ESOL poor kids don't count when it comes to additional resources.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/county.pdf[/quote]

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