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[quote=Anonymous][quote]This is what I mean by parents kidding themselves. MCPS carefully crafts the data to hide the fact that lots of its schools are full of un-motivated, poorly-educated students, that this correlates to socio-economics, and thus geography. This does not mean poorer kids are stupid, it means poorer kids are not being taught to the same standards, and many don't have parents with lofty expectations who can push them and advocate for them. If your child is not among the handful of students in advanced classes, he or she will be lumped in with the rest, and the rest is nothing to write home about. This is very different from wealthier districts, where teachers are better and parents are entitled and influential enough to hold them accountable: there are more advanced classes than non-advanced classes in a typical west-MCPS middle school. It's the reverse in east-MCPS. Once you realize this, you understand why parents are beggaring themselves to move west.[/quote]

This is spot on. The PP before this poster was being a bit deceitful by omitting that the file she shared had already been adjusted. Kids from Westland need to score much higher on MAP tests to make the list while a kid scoring far lower from Sligo is included because Westland is high performing/high SES and Sligo is low performing/low SES. Its fair and accurate to say that there are up to a dozen students at Sligo that meet the lowered bar for what MCPS considers highly able but that number is still pretty small even with the lower bar for making the list.

I disagree though that the teachers are better or worse at other schools. It takes A LOT to educate low performing kids. You face so many challenges as a teacher at a school like Sligo with kids who have many problems -learning, being far below grade level, under treated learning disabilities, disruptive home environments and no enrichment. Its far easier to teach in a western school. [/quote]

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