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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
If your child is in the Blair magnet or CAP, they will have most of their classes with highly motivated students. I don't get the relevance of the race of those students.[/quote]

[code]It isn't relevant. In fact, there's been no discussion along those lines. This was about determining a school's merit by factoring for the socioeconomic differences. Most of the metrics put forth here are simple averages which tell us little aside from a neighborhood's overall affluence. The earlier poster was trying to address this by looking at a head to head comparison of how a single large common cohort performs across these schools.[quote]

The race data poster did not choose a large or representative sample from Blair. [b]She chose only 100 white kids out of 2800 kids. [/b]SAT scores already do not represent the lowest performing/high FARMS kids because its is self selected from kids who want to apply to colleges. She couldn't post Blair's actual scores because they don't make Blair look good. She couldn't select Asian or AA kids because other schools scored higher. She could only cherry pick out 100 white kids to get to her fantasy numbers which is not relevant. She certainly did not control for SES in any way with this bad analysis. Its stupid and pointless.

This bad data poster (who I honesty think is the same one clapping almost immediately after she posts) is constantly monitoring any thread that ever mentions Blair and brings in her bad, misleading data. She then immediately starts agreeing with herself and thanking herself. She watches the threads and can never not let the last posts not be her BS.  She skates over any question or criticism of Blair and just reposts her same BS. Sometimes she reposts and thanks herself or add nothing more than one word. Just watch, she'll be back repeating her post and congratulating herself again.

I wonder if it ever occurred to her that the OP or OP's kids might not be white or might not be interested in a magnet program. She seems to think that Blair's high drop out rate, low test scores, and other problems are not important as long as less than 5% of the kids can score well on a SAT test. [/quote]

This post makes no sense at all.  I thought we established that there are around 700 white kids at Blair of which only around 120 are out of bounds magnet students.  The poster you are criticizing tried to calculate the SAT score for the [u]non magnet[/u] white students at Blair and established that it was equivalent to the scores of white students in the more affluent school clusters and better than the scores of white students in other DCC school clusters[/quote]

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