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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, I just hate these comments about "low performing schools."  It's not like the schools being referred to are using some kind of low-level curriculum -- every kid in every FCPS HS has access to high level classes.  These so-called "low performing schools" are just schools that have a mixture of kids -- higher income, lower income, English speaker, non-English, parents with degrees/professional jobs, parents with no jobs, parents with hourly jobs, etc.

As long as (1) you are academically oriented at home (as the parent), and (2) there is a segment of kids who are high achievers at the school, and (3) your child is physically safe --  then your child has all he/she needs for success -- doesn't matter if that school has 8% FARMS/ESOL with a mostly white/asian population, or 35+% FARMS/ESOL with a plurality of brown/white/asian/black.

Don't forget to look at the (economic + racial mix).  I'm not talking just about the FARMs rate -- I mean, look for a school where there aren't clear lines about WHO is lower income.  That's something I really like about our neighborhood school and the AAP center -- it's not a situation where all the brown kids are the low-income kids  .  There is no subtle distinction that kids or adults can detect about who gets FARMs and who doesn't.  My white kids have had best friends from year who are black, hispanic, asian, white, whatever.   Largely, it's the housing in the area (type, cost, number of apartments, etc.) that drives the economics of the school population.

Look beyond the usual list of "best schools" in FCPS.  
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But that is not actually true because if you are a minority around other minrity students from lower SES and who are not academically oriented there is peer pressure to also be low performing. There is not that peer pressure for caucasion students. But you are right that you have to look at where the students come from and if the minorities are no low -income )or brown as you put it) then there is a less of a chance that that wierd peer pressure to be low performing does not exist.[/quote]

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