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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are not in the neighborhood but my child is in the HGC at Oak View. I read most of Dr. Starr's recommendation and it sounds like it all came down to the difference in FARMS between the schools. Can anyone explain why there is a large gap in the FARMS rates?  Do families choose other schools for k-2 and then go to Oak View in 3rd?  [/quote]

Most of the gap is attributable to the HGC center.  Also, many of the kids from NHE don't continue on when it's time to transition to Oakview, and some parents with kids who live in the Oakview neighborhood go to the local parochial school for k-2, and transition in to Oakview when third grade hits, although by that point parents have usually found their groove wherever else they decided to send their child.  The reliance on the FARMS difference is particularly bizarre when you look at all of the other schools surrounding Oakview and see that they have much lower FARMS rates, yet nobody is suggesting that those schools be joined in a busing program to adjust for difference.  Can you imagine what would happen if MCPS proposed system-wide busing???  Everyone would go nuts because busing policies are unpopular and have been proven ineffective.

The demographics in Silver Spring have changed so much since the 70's, and it's like MCPS is totally blind to the fact that because both Oakview and NHE feed from large apartment complexes and from largely poor populations, there simply is no way that "pairing" these schools and busing between these two schools will bring socioeconomic diversity.  There are some schools that you could "pair", I suppose, and end up with diversity, but choosing to join the two poorest schools in the cluster to achieve that result just doesn't do what Starr seems to think it does.   [/quote]

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