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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do you want the FARMS kids to go?  And why do you think a school with more than a token number of FARMS students is bad?

If you looked at the FARMS rates in many rural communities, you might be surprised at how high they are.  But you'd probably never make such a big deal out of it as you do here, where the FARMS kids are more likely to be Hispanic or AA rather than white.[/quote]

Repeated research shows that when a school has too high of a FARMS rate, it hurts the educational environment for the nonFARMS kids.

My relatives teach in WVa so I am well aware that there are high FARMS rates in other rural areas and in those areas whites can make up a majority of those kids. Alexandria City historically has and still does have a higher AA and Hispanic portion of the population living closer to poverty levels.[/quote]

But this has nothing to do with what the schools are or aren't doing wrong. They can't really do anything about the fact that there are more poor kids here than surrounding counties.[/quote]

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