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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is this:  there is no way to elevate all schools in a large district like MoCo to the level of the current high performing schools.  The only way to “close the gap” is to erode the performance of the top schools and boost the performance of the lower schools is by redistributing the only resource that matters: high-performing kids, who are high-performing for reasons that have little to do with the quality of the school itself.  The political incentives for decision makers to do this are compelling, so that is what will happen.  My guess:  physical redistribution will focus primarily on pockets of high performing students with low enough SES that moving to private or out of MoCo is less realistic.  Those with a viable exit option will be spared other than having their currently high performing schools watered down a bit, with incrementally increased safety/disruption issues.   [/quote]

Why are people worrying about the "performance" of schools, rather than of the kids in the schools?

And if kids' test scores have little to do with the quality of the school, then why would anybody even care whether their kid goes to [School With High Test Scores] or [School With Low Test Scores]?[/quote]

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