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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]

I'm that low income kid who went to an affluent school.  My education was exponentially better than that of my cousin who attended a low SES school.  Low income kids who attend affluent schools don't need as big of an adversity boost because they are receiving a high caliber education. Title I schools have lower expectations of kids, don't have the same extracurricular activies, and provide a lower quality education.  [/quote]

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