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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d read about 1960s-1970s white flight in my history classes, and naively assumed we had moved beyond that sort of thing. To those of you who say you are not white, I would be careful about allying yourselves with the whites planning to escape the county. You may be what they are running from. [/quote]

+100. Tons of naive people on this forum. I'm glad the younger generation are more evolved. Signed, Asian parent staying put. My kids don't need an entire school of "smart" kids to help them do well.[/quote]

+1 There's also just no such thing as a whole school full of kids who are high achievers. There are certainly schools with MORE high achievers (read: more kids with plenty of advantages) but no school (even a private school) has only high achievers. That's what tells you these folks aren't really talking about high achievers, because even schools full of rich kids have some slackers, losers, addicts, depressives, and kids who just think they are too cool to try. [/quote]

Who said anything about wanting a school with 100% high achievers? We’re okay with at least 70% of students who are at least meeting all of the on grade level targets. It DOESN’T matter what class(rich middle poor) or color(pink, yellow, black or white).[/quote]

The problem is since 2010 all MCPS has focused on, increased funding to, increased teachers to has benn eSOl ad. a focus schools in their vain attempt to solve the worlds dispareity in grades, the elusive Achievement Gap.
Unf public schools are a zero sum game so whilst they were catering to the bottom performers to no avail, they annihilated the curriculum, the grading scale, extracurricular, teacher autonomy, etc for the average and above average students.  And no, the risky dink magnet programs located in far off locations to bolster SFH real estate there does not make up for that.  [b]The high quality MCPS product and graduate is not what it was 20-40 years ago[/b]. At all.  Parents try to do half of what MCPas used to do itself. It’s like another partition job each mother or father must have to get one’s kid a well rounded education out of the current k-8 mess and then the zero-differential HS morass of 4.0/5.0 kids.[/quote]

Oh please. I'm a MCPS graduate from 25 years ago. Honors student who took advanced classes throughout HS and I swear, my freshman daughter, also now at MCPS, is far more advanced academically than when I was a freshman. And no, I don't spend hours at home, schooling her to make up for some type of defficency. Am I an involved parent? Sure I am, but I'm certainly not the sole reason for her academic success up till this point. Her amazing teachers at MCPS get the primary credit for that. [/quote]

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