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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting discussion. What do people consider "high FARMS rates"?[/quote] I've heard than anything >40% approaches "concentrated poverty" and starts affecting quality of education. I'd have to read up on this more, but I suspect it also starts affecting white/ Asian flight out of those schools, too. I can tell you my kids' school in FCPS went from ~5% FARMS to 30% FARMS overnight due to redistricting a couple years back (THANKS KATHY SMITH!!) and I've seen some changes, but nothing that's made me want to pull my kids out. The biggest issue AFAIK is that the test scores tanked pretty hard because we got a lot more ESL kids and that affected property values so obviously some people looking to sell their homes were not pleased. [/quote]
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