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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The GS is a business.  It makes money by translating the data published by MCPS and other school distracts into nice bar graphs.  GS doesnt make up data.  It is a fact that the blacks and hispanics perform below average.  The families who value high test score and the families who value diversity can find what they are looking for.  Of corse, a few families may want to find a school with more white, black, Asian, and Hispanic for their child.  GS makes their rating based on facts, not skin color![/quote]

Yes, we get that.

The point is that families who just want a good school for their kids and don't have anything else to go on may look at GS numbers and decide naively that only 8, 9, 10 schools are acceptable (thus perpetuating segregation) when all experience of upper-income families shows that their kids do well in schools scoring 4, 6, 8, etc.[/quote]

What else are parents supposed to go on to find good schools?  [/quote]

Go on the tours of the public, privas and jesuit schools, compare them and decide for yourself. Getting an updated view is very important, the public schools are changing each year - teachers, curricula, extracurriculars, PTA offerings, budget, # of trailer classrooms, tracking or not, etc.  
It's your kid, do the work. [/quote]

Yes, you really need to do a deep dive. Talk to other parents, the PTA, the principal, etc. Find out how they structure and differentiate in the classrooms. Find out how involved the PTA is, the after school programs that are available, whether the compacted math students are in a different classroom or the same, how do they teach writing, etc.  The schools are way more than a number. I'm not kidding, I have a friend who has her kids in a Bethesda school rated a 9 and she hates it. I know of a parent who moved her son to our school, a GS rated 5, and he is so much happier now  and thriving, than when her son was at a school rated 8.   [/quote]

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