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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could we please stop equating "having benefited from the social safety net" with "irredeemable person who I wouldn't want my child educated alongside?"

Lots of people receive (or received) free or reduced meals. The children of your nannies almost certainly receive free or reduced meals. The children of a first-year MCPS teacher could qualify for reduced meals. Poverty is not contagious, and having benefited from free or reduced lunch does not make a child inherently worthless, or worthy of avoiding.  [/quote]
There are exceptions, but statistically speaking, FAMRS students don't do academically as well as their peers: https://education.umd.edu/research/centers/mep/research/k-12-education/does-school-composition-matter-estimating-relationship[/quote]

OK. How does "as a group, students who receive FARMs don't do as well academically" turn into "students who currently receive FARMs or did so in the past are irredeemable people whom I don't want in my child's high school"?[/quote]
I don't think anybody claimed that FARMS students are irredeemable people. However, if you have a large percentage of them in a school, the chances are that [b]the school will not do very well[/b].[/quote]

What does it mean for a school to do well? How do you know if the school is doing well? [/quote]
Click the link: https://education.umd.edu/research/centers/mep/research/k-12-education/does-school-composition-matter-estimating-relationship[/quote]
From this report:

However, these analyses do not provide information on how much of the association between school composition and achievement on the PARCC is due to differences in the quality of schooling or in the opportunities available to children outside of school.

It also doesn’t say anything about predictive validity of school test scores for any given student.[/quote]

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