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[quote=Anonymous]"I think if you dig a little deeper, you'll see that MCPS has abandoned any effort to re-attract and reassure middle class parents in the red zone. They see the red zone as a lost cause when it comes to making the schools more attractive for middle class families. From what I've been told, there's a "you knew this about your area when you moved here" attitude in response to red zone parents who think MCPS ought to at least pretend to give a crap about whether any of the middle class families will take a chance on their local schools. It's really too bad. I think they feel overwhelmed by the budget and overcrowding and really just pray to scrape by at this point. Caring what parents think about their assigned schools in the red zone has been bumped to the bottom of the list at this point. Those parents just get into specialty programs elsewhere in the county or go private. The problem solves itself, right?"

Well that sure seems dumb. You will not be able to truly "fix" the poorer schools without re attracting middle class families. And even if they improve test scores at high cost they will need to keep up the funneling of resources there since each year will be a fresh batch of kids. On the other hand if you attract middle class families you will help recover the school since those families will help volunteer and create a student body that is more academic focused. If they do not care about that then they do deserve to be criticized for the state of the high schools since nothing else will really help in the same way. [/quote]

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