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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't care that working families lose $150k per household, why should they care whether your kid gets a "diverse" experience?  "W" families have nothing to gain by gaming the school system based on wobbly studies that find an ephemeral improvement in English scores only for the kids who move to the "better' schools, which in these studies usually means more expenditure per pupil schools (not the case in MoCo where money and curriculum is already equitable).

In this contry, schools review, families educate for the highly achieving students.  Until that changes, there is clearly no way to make education more equitable.  Once it changes, there is no reason to bus students across town, except to magnet programs.  How does one change it?  Look at countries with bettee social elevators, seek advice.  [/quote]

The problem here is the thinking that you paid $150k for that school and are now having to face the loss of that “investment.” What occurred was that you paid a premium — some of which went to a lucky real estate agent who was complicit — for what you believed was a promise you’d have a special school environment. But that was a promise the seller and the real estate agent were not legally able to make. It’s just like if you invested $150k in bitcoins and then their value fell, or if you bought a house on a beautiful golf course and then the golf course closed and you lost value. Real estate agents should be forced to put a big asterisk next to the school assignment in their listings: “school not guaranteed.”

We should be ashamed of ourselves that we attach such a specific dollar value to kids’ test scores. We have adults standing here pointing the finger at school-aged kids, telling them they are responsible for holding up their home values by doing well enough on the damn PARCC test. Yes, that’s what the school ratings — and your home value apparently — are based on. Children sitting down in front of a screen every spring and answering math and reading questions. [/quote]

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