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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would a school want to increase its FARMs rate?[/quote]

Because it is better for society.[/quote]

Can you explain in concrete ways? I’m a fifteen-year veteran teacher in MCPS and, while I’ve taught in schools with high to low rates of poverty, I have never heard of this initiative. By the way, I’m a double minority and grew up poor so I support FARMs and other supports for low income students. Do you mean trying to get already attending students whose families meet the criteria enrolled in FARMs? [/quote]

I'm not PP, but I believe PP was trying to point out that economically and racially integrated schools benefit society in a variety of ways. First - concentrated poverty is bad for students, and bad for communities. Second - integrated classrooms have been shown to improve outcomes for low income kids, but to have no impact on higher income kids.

So, for a variety of reasons, it makes sense for schools to be economically integrated - it means poverty is not concentrated, it improves outcomes for low-income kids, and it has zero impact on higher income kids.

Hence, it is good for society because you help kids who would otherwise be in highly concentrated poverty, who are members of our society. [/quote]

Yes but this makes Wootton moms believe their school is better than QO and RM and NW because they have less FARMs :roll: [/quote]

Yup! It’s a powerful fantasy.[/quote]

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