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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ all kinds of assumptions in that post.  [/quote]

[b]Not assumptions but generalizations[/b].  There can be some ESOL students who have truly just a language barrier.  However the generalizations holds true with my experience in a Title 1 schools with > 80% ESOL.

And I will not try and be PC in an anonymous forum.  OP can choose to do what she wants to do with this input. Getting a transfer is not going to be easy in MCPS. Her choices are limited to staying in the school and making sure that the kid is getting enriched instruction outside of school; hoping that her kid gets into HGC; changing her address and of course private school.

In MCPS the race lines, the language lines, the socio-economic lines are all coinciding.  I am however not that arrogant to say that White and Asians are doing better because they are smarter.  They are doing better simply because they are being provided more opportunities to succeed by their parents.  In the cases where African Americans and Hispanic kids are thriving and excelling  - they are also mostly coming from highly educated, middle class (or above) families.

Schools in Bethesda and Potomac are not doing well because the water there magically increases brain-power.

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