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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I understand some of these posts correctly, us on the East, are being accused of not embracing the very same FARMS and ESOL students being kicked out of the West as a result of this?  How is it then that we end up with a more homogenous East Bethesda, a good social network as quoted previously and manage to cut the rate of Esol or Farms in half in Bethesda?  If that section of the cluster does not have issues with FARMS and ESOL, why are they ending up reducing these rates in the entire West of the cluster?[/quote]

I guess I was the poster you say was accusing. If it helps, my kids go to elementary school in Silver Spring outside of this debate, with a significantly higher FARMS rate than 22% anyway. I do not represent anyone in the West on this. I maintain that we need to get this discussion away from saying that FARMS kids = trouble. It's just not true. It's like you're saying that by accepting these children the schools in the East "lose" and the schools in the West "win." It would seem to me that to go to a school in Bethesda with virtually zero poverty and ethnic diversity is actually a kind of a loss. Good luck successfully negotiating the 21st century if you have never befriended non-wealthy or non-white people.[/quote]

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