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[quote=Anonymous]Money attracts money, honey.

These people in the W clusters had and will ALWAYS have connections.

That's what's unfair b/c it's hard to break into "the club."

not that I want to, btw - as I'm happy with our local school
But when you compare a school in Bethesda to one in downtown SS, the differences in poverty level, resources and progress are horrifying.  Is that fair?

So damn you, PP!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

I read a study recently that was done on/for Montgomery county, and it showed that once the FARMs percentage went above 20% the performance of lower income students stagnated.  It didn't say what happened to the performance of the higher income kids though.  This suggests that there is a point where school effectiveness is impacted by the % of FARMs kids.

Here: http://tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-Schwartz.pdf[/quote]

I'm the PP, and yes, I agree completely. But there are a lot of schools that aren't Burning Tree ES (<5% FARMS) but also aren't Wheaton Woods ES (81.1% FARMS). (I picked those elementary schools at random; I don't know a thing about them other than what's on the school-at-a-glance report.) And what's more, if the affluent people were less concentrated in certain parts of the county, the FARMS percentages would go down in the schools in the rest of the county. Which would be good for everybody (except possibly the people who paid a lot extra to live in a "W" zone).[/quote]

Damn those W people who went to college, grad school, then worked and saved and bought in good school districts with shorter commutes to downtown. Damn them all. [/quote][/quote]

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