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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Howard county is currently being redistricted and the latest proposal moves 200 kids from [b]one of the best middle schools[/b]( the one we will go in a few years) to the one with the highest FARM rate. The present FARM rate of this school is 52% and the target after redistricting will probably be 40%. The PAARC scores for this school hover in the 20 and 30 percents.

Now the usual cries of not wanting our kids to go t those schools, crime, home values are doing the rounds and I'm not claiming to be above those. But in all honesty, I didn't go to school here and I'm trying to understand what our experience there might be like. We are currently in a &lt; 5% FARMS rate elementary. middle and high school pyramid. I feel some of the hesitancy, including my own, might be people not really knowing what the new school is like.

I am truly trying to have an open mind and trying to understand what my kids would lose by going here. I don't believe 3 years of middle school make or break your life. Does this truly give my otherwise v protected kids a window into the world that's out there or is peer pressure and the price of poor choices too high in middle school. If your kids attended such a middle school coming from an elementary school like described, what was your experience and the pros and cons of this.
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I am assuming that you mean "one of the middle schools with the smallest numbers of poor kids."

My personal opinion is that it's positively harmful for affluent kids to go to a school where everyone is affluent and the racial/ethnic demographics are very skewed - "best middle school" notwithstanding. It's not a good bubble to be in.[/quote]

Using that logic would you move to a crime infested dangerous neighborhood[/quote]

How on earth did you get from "it's not good for affluent kids to go to school where everyone is affluent" to "in that case you should move to a crime-infested dangerous neighborhood"?[/quote]

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