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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found their new scoring system very confusing and inaccurate.  I double checked my suspicion with our old neighborhood in California, and it confirmed my suspicion of blatant bias in their new scoring system.  We moved from a 95% hispanic neighborhood with very low school performance scores to VA, and ALL of those schools on GS site are scoring 9s.  I guess they score equally poor and uneducated higher than a more diverse community like NOVA.[/quote]

Me too.  The HS we moved from in another state is a GS9. However, they have state test pass rates below 50%, low AP participation, even lower AP pass rates, an average ACT of 19. Meanwhile Wakefield (to pick a good example of a DCUM reviled school) has better scores in all these areas and gets a 2.  Two main differences account for this as far as I can tell:  the former school is the best one in its district, whereas wakefield is the lowest in its district. AND, there is more poverty in Wakefield. Honestly Wakefield is probably a better school, but nobody will see it that way.[/quote]

man yall are dense the ranking is against other schools in the area idiots[/quote]

well obviously, but it is worth recalling that even Wakefield is by national standards a good school. [/quote]

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