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Reply to "Best elementary school for a STEM gifted child?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the MD report card, didn't PBES and TPMS score really low? How can there be a large cohort of top STEM kids when the scores are so low and they are focus schools?[/quote] There is more SES diversity at those schools but when you dig a bit deeper as a PP pointed out students with similar SES tend to perform a bit higher at the Takoma schools. [/quote] Well...sort of. PBES gets dinged because kids of color do worse at Piney Branch than their peers at nearby schools. There was a whole thread about this a few months ago and people posted all sorts of statistics, but the takeaway was that white kids did well at all of the Silver Spring schools. But Black and Latino kids did worse at Piney Branch, which is both troubling and hurts them on the Maryland Report Card. I still think Piney Branch is a great school, but there are specific ways in which some UMC white parents have hoarded resources in that school. [/quote]
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