Reply to Please Read! Are we putting the blame about Prince Georges County on the wrong people?

Forum Index » MD Public Schools other than MCPS

Reply to "Please Read! Are we putting the blame about Prince Georges County on the wrong people?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Charles County and live near both the high schools you mentioned.  My children are zoned for North Point.

I think you need to examine the SES for the schools in PG vs. the CC schools that you've cited -- you are not making an apples to apples comparison (except on race -- which is problematic)

The FARMS rate of PG High Schools have been trending upward significantly in the last 10 years (33% in 2004 to 56% in 2015)

The FARMS rate of Charles County HS has increased too -- but it's about half of PG's at 29% in 2015.  North Point only has 17% and Westlake is at 32%.  Roosevelt is at 42.5%.

(Got all of the above data from http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/)

Even though the kids in these CC schools are predominately black, these are not poor children.  They are middle to upper-middle class children.  The neighborhoods feeding into NP and WL are subdivisions that are typically less than 30 years old, have at least 1/4 acre lots, and 3000+ sq ft McMansions.  Go to city-data.com and look at the discrepancies in wealth, housing, and education between the zip codes feeding into NP and WL (20601, 20603) and Roosevelt (20770)

The issue isn't that the kids are black - it's that they are poor.[/quote]
Agreed. 
A Brookings Institution article just came out last week showing direct correlation between parents' education and their children's success in school. The higher the secondary education, the greater the leaps in their child's achievement including test scores.  A neighborhood where the majority of the parents have college, graduate, or post-graduate degrees is not poor.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics