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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all are not thinking about this correctly. MCPS views everything thing through the lens of what does this mean for the achievement gap not what is the best thing to do from educational perspective for all kids.

At high SES schools, parent teacher conferences have very high attendance. Parents want more and want to know how they kid who is already meeting the basics can do more. Since the kids have already met the basic bar these conferences have no value to MCPS at all. Any energy spent on high performing students is a waste of resources and makes the achievement gap worse. Teacher availability is subject the individual teacher's preference.

[b]At low SES schools, very few parents come to the parent teacher conferences.[/b] MCPS desperately wants these parents to come so they can work with their kids at home more and catch up because it isn't happening in the classroom. Offering more conferences doesn't solve this problem.[/quote]

Hense the reason they are SES.  Anyone can get their child out of poor background if they make education a major priority.  Sadly most don't and it is the never ending cycle of poverty.  [/quote]

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