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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This formula has the potential to assign the same score a kid from an educated, affluent family who bought a lot $750,000 house in a crappy neighborhood feeding to Mt. Vernon and a kid with a 1st gen family making $60,000 with both parents working their butts off and squeezed into a rented apartment near an affluent neighborhoods feeding to Chantilly.   And the don’t face the same adversity. I’m okay with the first gen kid getting a boost— but they already do. I’m not okay with can buy a $750,000 house chooses Mt. Vernon family getting the same boost.  [/quote]
[b]The low income family who rents near an affluent neighborhood will have an inaccurate score that hurts them.[[/b]/quote]

Exactly this.  [/quote]

And it gives affluent kids whose parents buy a mansion in a mediocre neighborhood in a crappy school district a boost.  Which I don’t agree with.  Adversity should be circumstances beyond your family’s control. In many cases in this area, you can control what school district you buy into, but you may get less house and more commute for a good school. That’s the parents choice.  We wouldn’t tip the scales in their kids favor. [/quote]

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