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Peoviding equal opportunity means open all AP and IB classes to every student in MCPS, [b]regardless the grade and classes a student took.  Wellbeing students will sit in the same classroom with the[/b]  [b]other students. All students will learn and success[/b]![/quote]
"Well being" students starts at home.  MCPS can only do so much.   It can provide an interesting and challenging curriculum (which it has failed in the past to do); it can hire the best teachers (which is hard to do given how this society doesn't seem to want to pay teachers very well); it can provide a safe learning environment by addressing bullying etc..

What MCPS cannot ever do is to make sure all students have a decent home life.

I grew up low income. I had several friends who were also low income. I made it to college with good grades, albeit a C rated college because I couldn't afford better, while my friends didn't. The difference was home life.  My parents were not perfect. They fought a lot, and we had a lot of verbal and sometimes physical abuse in the home. However, they were strict regarding curfew and always asked if we finished our HW, even though they didn't know how to read/speak English.  They were good role models in terms of working hard, and it impressed upon me that education was the key to not struggling financially. My friends' parents weren't as strict and didn't pay attention to their education.

The adage "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink it" applies here.[/quote]

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