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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is ultimately that GS score is a very blunt tool for assessing a school that in no way tells you how children like yours fare at a given school. That was the case beefore they changed their methodology, and it continues to be the case now. [b]Anyone who takes GS (or any other rating site like Niche or US News) as the beginning and end of a school quality assessment is a fool[/b].[/quote]

IOW, the vast majority of homebuyers.

Oh well.  [/quote]

Sure, but so what? I'm not going to tell my school board to adopt more segregated school zoning to give a marginal boost to my home value while making no actual difference in the school. But you do you.[/quote]

I'm the one upthread who said that school districts don't care to game GS.  But all the posters who say that everyone should ignore GS, especially homebuyers, are talking to themselves.  Homebuyers care about GS.  Rather than telling the school board to change schools, we should call GS and tell them to change their formula.  If they took away the single digit overall score, and only provided the individual numbers (with or without fixing the flawed equity number), then homebuyers would be forced to either spend two more seconds looking at more scores per school, or would switch to another metric.  SAT scores, possibly?[/quote]

All they need to see is the free and reduced lunch rate.[/quote]

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