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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question even though it might sound dumb. PG County has many educated middle class, upper class AA families, why have their schools consistently ranked low inspite of the good demographic? I don't want to sound mean but this intrigues me. In real life, I have worked with and met tons of smart, educated, brilliant AA folks who actually live in PG, why haven't the schools done better?[/quote] PG schools where the parents are well off do fine. For example Eleanor Roosevelt is an excellent high school. Just like DC, however PG like many districts has a lot of poor kids and some rich kids and wealth disparities show up in all kinds of way. A lot of this thread has been based on race but if you were in West Virginia or Ohio you would also see this poor test scores, social crisis is really a consequence of poverty and affects many white kids to similar degrees. Problem is too many people buy into stereotypes and miss the larger numbers. [/quote]
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