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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Explain Northview, Kingsford, Perrywood, and the like. How can they be surrounded by middle class suburbs with educated people but still be so low performing for their test scores? Even if people are pulling i out their kids for privates, what explains it? [b]These schools can't be as bad ase the schools in Capital Heights or Temple Hills, so what gives?[/b] [/quote]

Why not?  Each of the schools you listed has 40%+ students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunch.  [/quote]

The data I've seen says closer to 30 percent, which is not nearly as high as schools in the inter loop. Either way, the schools are surrounded by middle class, barely any apartments, home owners. So who are the kids there exactly? [/quote]

[/b]The kids are African American. Nothing more needs to be said. African Americans are at a disadvantage when it comes to resources for their school. [b]My son attends kingsford. They are still using chalkboards. A/c and heat is constantly out, the front office staff is “hood,” etc.[/quote]

Absolutely not! It is a fact  that  SES is a more accurate predictor of school  success than race. I think the negative attitude towards PGCPS stems from the mindset that if it’s nit white, then it’ not right. As the poster above noted, the specialty programs are hoarding high achieving students. Therefore, there is not an even distribution of these students across the schools, which leads to the perception that neighborhood schools are low performing. If you stick these same kids back in the neighborhood school, then voila, total school scores goes back up. 
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I have a tag identified child. I don’t want my child back in the same neighborhood school just to boost scores. I want my child around other students that are on his level, where there is parent involvement and the child and family values education. Go tag or go private.[/quote]

Exactly!  It's not up to the well-performing kids to drag along those struggling.[u]  And TAG kids placed back in regular schools likely won't do well because the teachers will spend too much time going over rudimentary concepts or tending to behavior issues. [/u][/quote]

My TAG students in the neighborhood elementary school are doing very well.   Their school clusters the TAG students so that the teacher can differentiate the curriculum for the abilities of the students.  
And if you think that behavior issues aren't a problem in TAG centers then you are completely misinformed. 
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