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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it does.

Its part of a pattern at MCPS where no problem is important at a W school because UMC kids will always score high enough regardless of the quality of their education in school. No one wants to be under a school system that views their students as "assets" to get good scores and feels [b]no responsibility whatsoever to provide for their education. [/b][/quote]

truly?  how ridiculous.[/quote]

I agree, the last sentence is ridiculous.  But the first point isn't.  There does appear to be a mindset to not worry about issues at W schools because the kids are still doing well on test scores and beyond.  There doesn't seem to be much a concern about whether improvements could be made at W schools because kids there are doing fine.  Therefore, attention and resources are focused elsewhere to focus on closing the achievement gap.  One could even wonder whether there is an effort to avoid helping W schools do better because that will only worsen the gap, but I am not sure I am quite that cynical.

Some will say (not unreasonably) that MCPS policy should be to focus effort, resources, and policy changes to help kids in lower performing schools.  But it isn't crazy for W parents to be annoyed if MCPS seems to feel that they are doing "good enough" and there is no need to try to help maximize the potential of W students, rather than simply being satisfied with good enough.[/quote]

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