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So I guess we are going to have to agree on what constitutes education? Right now all kids are getting educated but yet something isn’t right according to who? Maybe it is the college for all model doesn’t apply to poor kids who most don’t go to college? Maybe it is the test score/FARM rate ranking system that rubs people the wrong way that causes the glaring SES stratification. Maybe it because softies like you confuse equal access with equal opportunities let alone equal outcomes the last two are but pipe dreams in resource contrived meritocracies.

All things are not equal, poor does equal failure at a much higher proclivity and too many poor people can and do crash systems (not just educational) . Those are the facts based off of every historical measure. The county is getting in influx of people who fall below the regional middle class threshold. When you have more not middle class people logic states the ability to maintain an iconic middle class school system will be challenged. If you then turn around and compare the first changed schools to the legacy/richer schools it makes it look like the schools are slipping but is it really the schools?

Do you think it is realistic to replicate Whitman in Langley Park with all the school funds possible? Most educators don’t. If the county becomes bifurcated the schools will and have followed, mix all you want but rich people tend to stay one step ahead, always have always will. You’re chasing the systemic ghosts of social engineering with new and different social engineering. But nothing you do will fundamentally move the needle for poor kids in a society with not nearly as much social mobility as people pretend it has. And mixing the metrics to obscure the early schools in trouble won’t stop more poor kids from coming in and dropping test scores in predictable curves. I assure you they aren’t moving to Chevy Chase.

Also point out where I correlated failure to race? Your own stereotypes color your comprehension. [/quote]

I partially agree with you - on the school part. If there are problems, they are not really problems of the schools. People here tend to use schools as a tool trying to solve social issues which are not supposed to be solved by schools.

I don't have enough information to comment on whether there are serious social issues and how they can be solved. I just do not believe schools should be used for that purpose. Maybe we should just do nothing and people will try to work things out. Or maybe we can do something to help, but not using our schools,[/quote]

Agree and Agree.[/quote]

I don't think you could replicate Whitman most places since it's basically a segregated school and without practices like red-lining that kind of thing doesn't happen these days. [/quote]
My god woman!  The PP was talking about replicating educational success of Whitman in Langley Park.  Everything in your life, every decision, and every thought, every dream, must revolve around race and skin color.  The world has so much more to offer.[/quote]

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