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I don't think you really want to run with the argument that UMC students in a high FARMS rate school are not reaching their full potential.  It runs against the claim embedded in all the pro equity policies that lower SES kids are helped by grouping with high SES kids at no cost to the trajectory of the high SES kids.[/quote]

DP. No, it doesn't. The point you're trying to rebut is that it doesn't hurt non-poor kids to have poor kids at a low-poverty school. Which it doesn't.

But that's not the issue here. The issue here is high-poverty schools. And high-poverty schools aren't good for anybody.

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If high poverty schools aren’t good for anyone, I don’t think the solution would be to pull a few of the best-resourced students out of those schools.  I don’t think that would be MCPS’s goal either.  [/quote]

That's not MCPS's solution for high-poverty schools.

Also, there is no evidence that MCPS is pulling a few of the best-[i]resourced[/i] students out. Remember that MCPS does not know students' household incomes or the education level of their parents. Only whether or not the students receive FARMs.[/quote]

The above comments were specifically in response to a PP arguing that it was good/right/intentional that MCPS admit UMC kids who attend high poverty schools to the magnet.  And specifically saying that is not MCPS’s policy or desire.  Whether this particular admission system will or won’t do so remains to be seen.  It would appear based on its design as described in this thread that it might do so.  But time will tell.[/quote]

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