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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question: if the schools are not better, and are all the same in one school district, why the big discrepancy in property values close in east county vs close in west county?

Hint: it's the schools[/quote]

Well, sure, but what [i]specifically[/i] about the schools?

Hint: it's not the quality of the curriculum, instruction, facilities, or administration, or the likely educational outcome for a given student at School A vs. School B.[/quote]

[b]It is about the outcome,[/b] who wants their kids to go to a school with a major poverty couture and double digit dropout rates? Going to a school where poverty is called culture is propagating marginal expectations and many a middle class kid has fallen for the trap of trying to look cool to people who will ride their coolness back into the generation poverty class. You better hope your middle class kid doesn't emulate the wrong kids.  [/quote]

The data do not support your assertion.

[b]I'm tickled by the idea of "poverty couture", though.[/b][/quote]

Me, too!  But I think PP hit the nail on the head: it's about parental anxiety that their supposedly brilliant offspring will somehow be lured into a life of disrepute by poor kids.  Sure, peer groups matter in adolescence, but any high school in MCPS has a decently-sized cohort of high-achieving kids.  The size of the latter matters, of course, but it's there at all schools.  IME of attending a W school, a lot of the parents there check out with the assumption that their kids are surrounded by "good kids," so they don't need to monitor what they're up to.  Oh, and racism.[/quote]

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