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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New VM family here. I can't catch up on all the 12 pages here, but did read the last few.

What the VM PTA board member said is right. Most of us prefer Woodward and not WJ.  I am a VM PTA member who at least listens in and responds for requests for feedback.  It's weird someone is trying to gaslight them, but so goes this forum.

I like the Superintendent's recommendation. I welcome joining Wheaton Woods at new Woodward. FARMS is not very high there. It will be nice for my kid to be in the majority-minority.  I don't want them to go to WJ. It's simple. And no, going to a school with 10% FARMS will not drastically change the outcome for any child. The argument is silly.

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You can literally compare outcomes for FARMS kids across schools on the MD school report card - they do best in schools with the lowest FARMS rates and the difference is significant. This is consistent with nationally recognized research that was actually done in MoCo[/quote]

Cite your data sources. I grew up a FARMS kid and know what’s best for my kid and WJ is NOT it. If I wanted something like WJ I would have put my kids in private school.[/quote]

If you don't want to look at the MD school report card that is not my problem

Here is the research I was referencing: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/housing-policy-is-school-policy/
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Building on the strength of the random assignment of children to schools, I examine the longitudinal school performance from 2001 to 2007 of approximately 850 students in public housing who attended elementary schools and lived in neighborhoods that fell along a spectrum of very-low-poverty to moderate-poverty rates. In brief, I find that over a period of five to seven years, [b]children in public housing who attended the school district’s 
most-advantaged schools (as measured by either subsidized lunch status or the district’s own criteria) far outperformed in math and reading those chil-
dren in public housing who attended the district’s least-advantaged elementary schools.[/b][quote] 
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