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What area do these hispanic kids live in?  I can't think of any lower income apartments in McLean.

Sherman's lower scores would be especially surprising since I think a few homes along McLean's gold coast feed into Sherman, not to mention a lot of other wealthy areas.[/quote]

The point was that the parents who send their kids to Sherman don't seem to worry too much if Sherman gets a "7" on Great Schools because there are special education students sent there who tend to score lower on standardized tests.

On the other hand, if Marshall Road also gets a "7" on GreatSchools, or Cunningham Park gets a "5," because there are lower-income kids in condos near the Vienna metro or Hispanic kids in the Cedar/Park apartments, some posters seem to think that's good and sufficient reason to steer people away from those schools in favor of other, "great" schools.

Capiche?

BTW, what and where exactly is McLean's "gold coast"?

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I supposed it's perceived this way because special ed kids who go to Sherman are not poor and most likely have a stable house hold where the kids are taught right from wrong and parents are highly educated.

In contrast, the poor kids who go to Marshall Road and Cunningham Park are more likely from less stable families and are from different cultures where education may not be emphasized.

McLean's Gold Coast is the area that borders the Potomac River.  [/quote]

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