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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Seriously - what are people who fret about this really worried about? I really want to know because I don't get it.[/quote]

For elementary school, schools with higher poverty like those in the Einstein or Wheaton cluster have children with severe academic deficits. Your child will be sitting in a classroom working independently or waiting while the teacher spend the majority of her time trying to fill in the extreme background knowledge gaps of the lower performing kids. Your kid may get one or two pull outs occasionally but he or she will have fewer peers at grade level and even fewer above grade level as opposed to higher performing schools.

Group projects become an issue unless the teacher really tries to group kids by performance. Best practices in teaching now though push mixing this up so the lower performing kids can learn from the few higher performing kids. The higher performing kid does not get much out of this.

Poverty brings behavior issue and MCPS does not address behavior issues. Within low income schools, there are more kids with untreated and unaccommodated learning and emotional disabilities. Its not the fault of the kids but the combination of poor prenatal health and at home poverty increases the likelihood if these disorders and they can unaddressed. These kids need even more parental support, para educators, medication, and specialists but they get known of this and simply disrupt the class.

Teacher expectations are lower in low performing schools. The school and teachers are pressured to bring up the bottom and resources go there accordingly. Once acceleration begins, these classes are often watered down to get enough kids to hold a class.

Once middle school and high school begins, you combine all the problems that happen anywhere with problems that are more unique and prevalent with poverty. Your child will see many of their former ES classmates drop out, get pregnant, join gangs, go to jail etc. Some people want their kids exposed to this on a daily basis and others do not.

You can decide that school experience doesn't really matter and that is your choice but there is nothing beneficial about poverty and academic failure. Its not a benefit and choosing a school with high levels of academic failure and poverty to get a cheaper house comes at its own cost.

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This is hilarious! [/quote]

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