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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huntington High school in WV has an 80 percent white population-median family income is $29,000.00 and FARMS rate is about 54%.  Test scores are at or below 50% and AP courses taken are at 8%.  Clearly they are not high acheivers or doing very well.  [b]Poverty has an adverse effect on every race.[/b][/quote]

This really should go without saying![/quote]

Which is why the comment [b]"poor minority populations bring down a school and there is no doubt that is a fact!"[/b] above is racist, or ignorant at best.[/quote]

That's a true statement for MoCo. We are NOT in WV the last time I checked. [/quote]

yes, your're right. In MoCo, there isn't a big white *and* poor population (based on % of FARMS kids by race).  It just so happens that the majority of the poor people in MoCo are minorities. [b] But the WV example shows that it's a poverty issue, not a race issue. [/b] So, there was no reason to use the "minority" word in reference to "bringing down a school".  It is a SES issue; not a race issue.[/quote]

Not necessarily. In WV example, the whole state is under performing - the entire state lacks resources. In MCPS, the resources are there but there are under performing pockets of population which happened to be minority groups. You can't "ding" states with less resources than we do for performing less than we do. [/quote]

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