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To be honest, yes, I am indeed very afraid of that. So what assurances can you give me that my precious snowflake won’t be adversely affected in any way in terms of quality of education and social influence? Will the on grade level or high performing students receive EQUAL amount of teacher instruction and attention as a low performing student and not simply get shoved to the carpet. [b]And don’t ignore the FACT that FARMS students tend to be low performing.[/b] That has already been established in numerous peer reviewed publications. Just give me some kind of assurance.[/quote]

It does not matter if FARMS students tend to be low performing. When we look at negative impacts, we do not look at how this will help certain people (that is not called "negative"), we look at how this is going to hurt people.

Effectively, if you look at a plan with which you bring in more low performing (doesn't matter rich or poor, doesn't matter which race) students, that is a negative impact which can't be ignored.

Can I offer something instead: why don't MCPS make it a combination of merit and SES based thing: hold a test (or some other more objective standard/screening on their academic abilities), any FARMS student that can do well in that test/screening can then be eligible for going to a "better" school nearby.

Or, is the BoE really just trying to help those FARMS students who simply do not perform well?
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Do you really not see how it would benefit students if there weren't schools with very high FARMS rates?  Clearly you don't want your kid to go to a school with a high FARMS rate -- don't you think it would benefit all students not to go to high FARMS schools?   [/quote]

You think FARMS is a important factor to consider.
This is not necessarily the case for everyone else.

I don't care about the FARMS rate itself. I don't want my kid going to a school which has low performance. If the FARMS kids perform better (than non FARMS students),I really don't mind even if it is a 80% FARMS school.

And "to benefit ALL student", no, I don't think so. Politicians want people to believe that, I can certainly understand that part.

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