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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every school must be half students on the dole and half students whose families w HHI over $42k.

One third must be Hispanic, one third black, one third white plus Asian. Pro rate the FARMS.

50/50 female/male.

This, my friends, is the recipe for success. The achievement gap will dissipate and all will be eager and ready for MOCo Community College. There is a special program there where you can teach ESOL at MCPS during and after college, go for it!! 
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At least it would help illustrate how kids academic performance is a function of their SES not which school they attend. [b]A kid from Churchill will do more or less the same at Kennedy. [/b]People get all worked up about good and bad schools, but there isn't any real difference between the schools just the students. Sure, busing kids around to make things fair sounds great but it would also have little impact.[/quote]

MCPS has gone downhill. I can tell you based on firsthand experience.  Rigor is a joke.  Teachers are scared into passing students, and kids can bully teachers with the 50% rule and the re-teach/re-assess mess.

My own kid, now a HS freshman in a different system, has said that she finally has peers to ramp up the competition in her classes.  She was a straight A student in her other school - As w/o even trying.  Now, she has to work very hard to maintain a low A.  No system is perfect of course, but I prefer watching my own children (younger one is in ES) become self-reliant and resourceful.

There was far too much enabling in MCPS, with too much emphasis on the social-emotional realm. The best way to grow confidence is through skills.  And sometimes that means kids NEED to fail.  They NEED remediation. But those are nasty words in MCPS.

Many kids living in poverty come with a different set of issues.  Rather than coddling them, have enough RESPECT for them to build their capacity.  If the home life is crap, encourage them to visit the library.  Hold after-school homework clubs.  But hold them accountable.  All we've done is created an underclass by passing kids along b/c failing them is not PC.[/quote]

Just another sky is falling post. Nothing to see here.[/quote]

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