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I am not questioning that.

I am just saying, it is fine that you care about performance. But if you want to raise one school's performance by sacrificing another school's, it would be quite natural that parents from the latter school would object. And I can't see how people can be so confident to say this is for a "public good".

The parents of the latter school are not part of the "public"?
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Why are we talking about school performance? We're not educating schools. We're educating kids.[/quote]

When we say "school performance", we mean "student performance" from that school.
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Well, let's sub that in. "If you want to raise student performance at one school by sacrificing student performance at another school..." Are you ok with that? [b]If you move some students at School A to School B, then students at School B will do better, and students at School A will do worse?[/b] Is that what you're saying? I thought that the whole point of this line of argument was that moving students from School A to School B actually would NOT make them do better?[/quote]

I am saying if you move some low performing students from school B to school A, the average student performance at school A will be worse.

So would it not be natural for parents of School A to be opposing the change? Maybe some people don't care if kids around their kids do well or not as long as their kids do fine, but many parents do. 
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So actually, when you say "school performance", you don't mean "student performance from that school", you mean "average school test scores,"

Will your kid get lower test scores if your kid goes to a school with lower average school test scores? And, if so, then why wouldn't it work the other way - a kid will get higher test scores if the kid goes to a school with higher average school test scores?[/quote]

Teachers are mandated by the district to teach to the lowest level of students of the class. Low performers are A teacher’s first priority. That is why if you spread our the low performers across all of the schools in the county they will overall get more instruction time.[/quote]

yup and that's what society needs

will the higher performers be hurt somewhat yes but they will still be fine they are high performers already

but the alternative is areas that become ghettos and then society has to pay more when these lower performers become adults and have higher rates of unemployment crime require more social services etc

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somewhere a communist is clapping and saying Bravo PP. [/quote]

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