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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So there are two types of insecure parents: those who use test scores to justify how much they paid for their Bethesda house and those who claim that test scores don't matter because their kids get a good education anyway. Am I missing something?[/quote]

Yes, you're missing the fact that the parents are saying A SCHOOL'S OVERALL AVERAGE TEST SCORE doesn't matter TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL KID'S EDUCATION, because their individual kid is getting a good education.

Capital letters for emphasis.[/quote]
Those are in my second category. [/quote]

No, they're not. Unless you think that parents who say, "My kid is getting a good education in a school with lots of kids who are poor and brown", in response to comments that it is not possible to get a good education in a school with lots of kids who are poor and brown, must be insecure.[/quote]
Well, if they weren't insecure, they wouldn't try so hard to make it look like test results don't matter.[/quote]

GROUP test results do not, in fact, matter for the INDIVIDUAL high-performing student.[/quote]
You cannot measure school performance based only on individual high-performing students.[/quote]

Nobody is saying that you can measure group results using individual results.[/quote]

DH and I are highly-educated and affluent.  Our family travels, our house is print-rich, our kids have lots of opportunities to explore their interests.  We take them to museums, we travel abroad, they do weekend activities that support their intellectual growth.

Our kids are in a DCC school with a 35ish percent FARMS population and are doing great.  The odds are greatly in their favor and to the extent that the odds were improved by them attending a W school rather than the DCC one, the difference would be infintesimal.[/quote]

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