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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Student and teacher school ratings are in conflict with some of the schools listed here, e.g. Blake, Einstein

https://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php[/quote]

Relatively small percentages of people participated in these surveys.  That doesn't invalidate the responses of those who did participate, but it's important context.

Also: I think of underrated as an opinion held by people who have little to no direct experience with the school.  Not those within it.[/quote]

And yet systematically, both students and teachers rate lower income schools worse than wealthy schools.

[b]You're insinuating this might be nonresponse bias.[/b] I think the answer is much simpler. MCPS is not doing as good of a job in low income schools as it is in high income schools. The low income schools do not have the resources they need to serve their students. And no, it's not that the students don't value education. Across the board 95%+ of student respondents agree it is important to them to do well in school.[/quote]

Let me spell it out for you.  Low response rates to surveys undermine the ability to draw meaningful conclusions from those responses.  It doesn't get much simpler than that.

Moreover, you're giving too much power to MCPS.  Kids in "high income" schools are far more likely to receive extra resources *outside* of school - tutoring, college application coaching, test prep, etc.  Schools are not responsible for every outcome.  I agree that MCPS could use more resources, but you're ignoring the larger context in which these students live and learn.[/quote]

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