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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RunRunRunRunRun from the poor people!
Goood  God ! FARMS families could be folks making almost $50,000 (about the average U.S. income) or $15,000.00
Some of you ...ughh...I just can't!![/quote]

Where do you live, PP?  I ask because I find that the people who are most dismissive and contemptuous of the issues facing those of us living in the DCC and the challenges of our schools - especially those who characterize it as racism or elitism - don't even have children in the area or are at an affluent school.

Just because I'm middle class doesn't mean that I don't want and deserve a good education for my kids.  I'm not running from poor people (heck, by DCUM standards I am a poor person - HHI < `$100k), I'm running from poor performing schools.  When upwards of 60% of the third graders at my local elementary school don't pass the math and reading testing, when upwards of 70% of the 5th graders don't pass these tests, there is cause for worry.

When you blow of concerns about poor performance and paint it as elitism or racism and some of the other accusations on this thread, you not only distort the issues at hand, but you are doing a disservice to poor kids in this area.  You don't think moms and dads of FARMS kids want their kids to go to schools where a MAJORITY of the kids pass basic state acheivement tests????

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I live in the DCC!! And yes the way people refer "FARMS"
As if that is a different class of humans, an "other". Folks referring to ESOL like they are problems and not people.
That is elitist, racist, and IGNORANT. Recognizing the problems is TOTALLY different  than looking at the people with that problem as if THEY ARE THE PROBLEM and not people. Yea MOFO that is racist and elitist... Deal with it![/quote]

So let me get this straight.  According to you the only people who are concerned about poor performance at their local schools are racists?  And they must be white and rich, right?  Only white racists / rich people care about  their local schools and the performance of those schools.  Not middle class or working class people or African Americans or Latinos - oh no, they don't care about their local schools.

Who is the racist?

And there's no correlation between poverty and performance in Montgomery County?   People in DCC should be grateful to get what they get.   And the model that works well in Bethesda or Potomac should work at, say, the poorest performing school in DCC?

Who is the elitist?

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