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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If MCPS has good schools with top-notch education programs, FARMS won't matter one way or the other.  Parents that care about education will relocate to the county for their children's educational opportunities.

It seems MCPS has given up trying to provide top-notch programs.  Now their only strategy is to shift around poor people in the hopes of watering down issues at their home schools.

However, the assumption that poor=problem is one MCPS CO is making up themselves.  Instead the CO should step up and go sit daily at the schools with problems and instead of at Hungerford.  And they should sit there, at that school, until it's problems have been fixed.[/quote]

This is nonsense. Even in MCPS, there's a direct correlation between test scores and poverty. Schools with the least poverty have the highest averages. Even schools where many kids do as well as anywhere have a lower average because they shoulder more poverty. You can try to pretend it doesn't matter but it really does.[/quote]

Exactly! Kids do worse at schools with concentrated poverty. The county needs to do a better job of spreading this more evenly to ensure all schools can offer a good education to those who want that.[/quote]

It doesn’t seem to matter to you that this social experiment failed decades ago and also failed else where now. Sure, you can do this experiment again at MCPS, so more of these poor kids would drop out or be chronically absent due to long bus routes and upper middle class would flee to other counties because they won’t tolerate their kids being bussed to other schools. But I guess you’re not gonna pay for this. We tax payers will just keep watching our property tax bill getting higher and higher to satisfy a few people’s fantasy. [/quote]

I bet it's not than 5 people, total, who keep posting this kind of stuff, over and over and over and over and over again, on DCUM.[/quote]

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