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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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PP, Richard Montgomery is not a &quot;low income&quot; school - get your facts straight.

lol.. to Wootton parents we are because they have &lt; 5% FARMs and RM has around 20%. Even if Wootton had 5%, that's a 4x increase. If they have 3%, that's almost a 7x increase. That's a lot. The funny thing is, there are many homes in the RM cluster that are more expensive than homes in the Wootton cluster. But, yes, there is Twinbrook which has the highest FARMs rate in the cluster.

We're in Wootton and never thought of RM as low income. We would have bought in Fallsgrove but didn't like how the houses were so big and lot was so small- too many huge windows looking right into your neighbors huge windows.

You could move Twinbrook into Wootton but since RM is only 20% FARMS don't the Twinbrook students already have the advantage of being at a high income school? RM would go from 20-5 and Wootton would go from 5-20. What would this achieve other than swapping the FARMS ratio between Wootton and RM?

Twinbrook Elementary School is an elementary school. Richard Montgomery High School is a high school.[/quote]

Twinbrook is a higher FARMS ES school that feeds into Richard Montgomery (20% ) a low FARMS school. Some have argued that Twinbrook ES be moved to feed into Wootton because Wootton (5%)  is low FARMS. RM would then become very low FARMS 5% and Wootton would be become low FARMS 20%. This doesn't change anything in terms of more poor students getting access to low FARMS schools.

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Your stats are WAY Off. Taking Twinbrook ES out of the cluster does not reduce RM to 5% FARMS. Moving Twinbrook ES into the Wottton cluster does not make it 20% FARMS.[/quote]

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