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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can say this only on an anonymous forum. If you can do anything to not be in this situation - move, go to private school - then do so.
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Op here,. That is why I chose to ask this in an anonymous forum as opposed to Facebook - so that I can get an honest opinion. Can you elaborate on why you feel this way?[/quote]

OP, "honest opinions" are not necessarily a good thing. Especially when they're anonymous "honest opinions".[/quote]

Op here. PP, we have a buzzing Facebook forum. The only thing I've heard in the last 2 days is either shrill opposition and how this is unfair having to go from a 10 rated school to a 5 rated one or preaching about how all schools in hoco are good and our kids are resilient and will be fine anyway. I have not heard a single nuanced view of what the actual challenges would be for the kids being moved in order to help somebody with an open mind form an opinion.
Fwiw, we are Asians and my son is a v nerdy and somewhat socially clueless kid. I wonder if bullying would be a risk.[/quote]

IMO, you won’t get nuanced responses because there isn’t much nuance about it.  It will not be beneficial to your kids to have them attending a school with more lower-income kids.  And, really, the lower income kids aren’t going to magically perform better in the new environment.

This gets proven over and over.  MCPS has been trying to do this with the Magnet programs and CES programs in ES being placed in lower-performing schools.  It’s been tried in other areas as well and it rarely does anything to close the achievement gap. [/quote]

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