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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Thank you! Rich students don’t suffer when some poorer students are present in their classes. But poor students perform worse when their classes are full of only poor students. At this point everyone in the rich schools is intentionally paying a premium to isolate their children from poor students. MCPS doesn’t have to allow that to continue. [code]

This isn't entirely true. You can add some poor low performing kids to a high performing school that is well resourced and the high performing kids will not suffer and the low performing kids might get better. This is a win.

However when you add too many low performing kids to a high performing school their performance does drop for the high performing kids. The low performing poor kids don't do better either. Look around at the MCPS schools with 25%-30% FARMS kids. Those kids are really not performing better than low performing poor kids at other schools. with a higher FARMS rate. This situation is a lose for students. MCPS though still sees it as a win because it makes the school APPEAR to look better than a school with only poor low performing kids. So if you actually care about kids you wouldn't support this plan. If you suck up to MCPS then sure its a great idea.

In terms of people choosing not to live in areas with high poverty, its crazy to think that someone believes that MCPS should have a say in where to allow people to live. Good grief. People 0white, black, asian, hispanic- will always avoid areas with high poverty if they can afford to do it. Why? Because high concentration of poverty correlates with high crime, poorly maintained properties and lower appreciation, and poor performing schools. [/quote]
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Look at the DCC. Blair, Einstein and Northwood are incredibly over capacity while Kennedy sits there with open seats. Why aren't more kids in the DCC diverted up to Kennedy to use those seats? [/b]Why aren't wealthier white or asian kids living in boundary for Blair assigned to Kennedy? Blair, Einstein, and Northwood residents would have a nervous breakdown if they were assigned to a lower performing DCC school in a higher poverty area with more crime.

Yep. It isn't just Bethesda parents who want to segregate their kids.[/quote]

Nice try, but Kennedy has a capacity of 1794 and enrollment of 1796 this year.  Wheaton is the only DCC HS with space, which is an effect of their new building.
[url]http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP20_Chap4_DCC.pdf[/url][/quote]

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