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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm unclear on the point of this thread at this point.This thread started out talking about gangs and divulged into how crappy Einstein and the DCC schools are. Sorry but I don't buy the ones doing the bashing give a flying f*%& about the kids in these schools. But maybe I'm just cynical! But to sincerely try to address the questions of the last few posters....

In any given school, low-income kids have a lot of barriers that the higher income kids don't have. If parents are working two jobs are unpredictable hours they can't control in truly grueling jobs (vs. me being able to take a break as I WFH on my laptop from my professional job) they may not have time and energy to keep up with homework, etc. They may not be eating healthy, homemade foods. They may not be able to keep kids on a good sleep schedule if they need to be up and out of the house early etc. They may have other stresses - safety, financial, etc.

Those are HUGE reasons why the white (often higher income, at least in some areas) or higher income kids do better. I think Montgomery County has done some good things to try to address some of the barriers. For example, our kids go to a focus school (elementary) and they have free breakfast in the classroom for everyone, so the low-income kids who quality for free breakfast don't have to feel bad or different. Our kindergartner has a very late lunch so they ask parents to pack a snack. But many of us were asked to donate snacks so that kids whose parents don't/can't pack one (or whose parents forget) can have snacks. I know there are more extensive programs than that but I do think some things are being addressed. Sadly though, as others have stated, schools can't control for things like maternal education and other factors that drive overall student performance.

I think what some posters have been trying to say is that even though they are not themselves low-income or facing barriers, they know their kids have a high chance of success due to the other factors (HHI, parental education, family support, security, etc.) I don't think anyone is saying they don't feel for the kids at risk or are not concerned about them or don't think the schools should do more. But that average standardized test scores are not a good proxy for how their kids will do.

Please  :roll: 
Only thing these posters are trying to say is that low-income non-white people are beneath us because of A, B, C, D, E, F, G...........
For whatever reason they get their jollies off running down the lists and breaking out the data to show their superiority and echo the same sentiments about how pathetic poor minorities are.

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