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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS lowest performing students are not predicted by rich or poor kids. It is predicted by race mainly. [/quote]

which is correlated to rich and poor[/quote]

No, it is related to group culture and identity, which is part of the racial identity.

Even a poor and uneducated ORM's kid will do well as it has been proven by the kids of uneducated Chinese restaurant workers in Chinatown in New York who end up in  Stuyvesant magnet school.

Some racial, ethnic, national groups prioritize education.

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All racial and ethnic groups prioritize education.  Some people in each group don't or not in the way you believe they should.[/quote]

The groups that are not sending their children to school regularly (chronic absenteeism) do not highly prioritize education. That doesn’t mean they don’t care about education but they are obviously prioritizing other things (keeping their job, babysitting toddler siblings, etc.) above education. Unfortunately racial and ethnic group is somewhat predictive of level of priority although every family is different. [/quote]

You do know there are chronic absentee students in [b]all[/b] the major racial/ethnic groups that MCPS measures? White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian.  [/quote]

DP. where is data? asking because don't know not to be snarky.[/quote]

https://moco360.media/2024/06/21/mcps-chronic-absenteeism-dips-slightly-in-2023-2024-school-year/

If you scroll way down, you will see a chart from a BOE meeting in the Spring. Yes there are chronic absentees in all the racial/ethnic groups, but no, the rates are not similar. Absenteeism is higher in the groups that, unsurprisingly, also have low performance. Absenteeism is also super duper high for MCPS pre-K, which makes me personally hesitant to throw a ton of limited resources at that if it isn’t even utilized. Also, I can totally understand low performance from students who do not have English proficiency and had subpar educational experiences in other countries prior to arrival and are placed in their age appropriate grade. What is mystifying to me is low performance of students who are native speakers of English who have gone through MCPS or schools in the US. [/quote]

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