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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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A consulting firm is selected by BOE today. Please check thie website and see what they did for Brooklyn District 15.

How is this relevant? They did what Brooklyn District 15 hired them to do, which is not the same as what the Montgomery County Board of Education has hired them to do.

Consultants always repeat their work. Anyone hiring a consultant knows that the end product will closely resemble what they have done for prior customers. Its the way consulting works. What is interesting about Brooklyn is that almost none of the wealthy students who were re-assigned to poorly performing schools showed up. They succeeded in getting some poor students into wealthier schools but they drove a bunch of people out of the school system.

This is a pretty predictable outcome. If people are willing to pay a sizable premium and/or accept a longer commute to work to be in a better school system then it is extremely unlikely that they will all of sudden no longer value this once the school system decides to bus their kid to a low performing school. They will be upset at their loss but they are unlikely to go with the flow and stop caring about their kids education so they'll just pull out their kids.

So it's win-win since we no longer have to educate the children of whiney and priveleged when they go private! It's not like wealthy people really pay taxes anyway. More resources for everyone else.

OK I can see how this would help reduce overcrowding in desirable schools but how is this a win for the original stated purpose when the poorer performing schools will remain poor and low performing?

[b]DP.. more affluent families in that school would bring to the table what they bring to the more affluent schools -- money and time.

Higher achieving kids in the lower performing school would have a wider academic peer group. That's pretty important. It ups the game for them in the classroom.[/b][/quote]

Whoa reading comprehension please! The point of the post that you are responding to is that it is predictable that the affluent families will NOT show up at the lower performing school.[b] This happened in Brooklyn and is pretty predictable based on the prior actions of the affluent[/b]. You won't end up with higher achieving kids in lower performing schools or a wider academic peer group. 
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Some families left. Others didn't.  I read the WaPo article, and seems to me that the students that the article followed were doing fine, especially the lower income kid who got into the highly desirable school.  The upper income kid and the parents had reservations, but she seemed to be fine in the end.  Kids adapt easier than adults do.[/quote]

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