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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Agreed. We need to stop associating school success with test scores. There is more to being a good school than just test scores and college acceptance rates. Being in a diverse school, for instance, can teach a child more than what can be tested on or read in any book. Many of us place more of a value on this type of life learning than arbitrary test scores.[/quote]

What a bunch of bullshit. First many of the "diverse" schools are completely segregated inside the school. Try the all white Blair caps program or the desperation to make sure your kid gets into a waterer down CES lest they be left behind in the general population yard. Hypocrisy at its best.

Its tiresome that some posters want to claim that graduating from high school, being prepared for college, and being able to PASS a basic grade level ELA and math class is not important to rationalize sending their kids to a crappy school. These are really bottom of the barrel measures. If you can't make these measures, the school is in trouble and it is not a good learning environment for anyone.

[b]People should be up in arms about the failure rates within MCPS. They shouldn't be trying to hide them or rationalize them away -unless these are MCPS people posting[/b]. They should be screaming for the heads of MCPS staff who are failing the kids. They should be screaming for more school interventions or putting schools like Einstein on a probation watch until things improve. Nope -lets instead pretend that academics and learning do not matter. Its simply about existing for a few years. [/quote]

This +1 million

[b]I have a kid at a Title 1 school and I am mostly struck by the incredibly low expectations.  Low expectations for behavior.  Low expectations for academics.  Especially when compared to my friends/relatives at wealthier schools.  That is an issue.  
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MCPs needs to focus more on demonstrating that all the kids are progressing and that the time they are spending in school is actually productive.  [/quote]

I'm sorry to hear that was your experience. My kid just finished at a Title I school, and it was the total opposite. From the principal to the teachers and paraeducators, I noted consistently high expectations. [/quote]

I think it really depends on the Title I school, the engagement and expectations of the teachers, and the attitudes of the students toward smart kids.

We switched from Kemp Mill ES to Montgomery Knolls/Pine Crest, which are all Title I schools.  Our oldest had K-3 at KMES, then got into the CES at Pine Crest.  He was desperate to get away from KMES, where the student culture is to bully the smart kids.  Our younger DS was allowed to switch to MKES (the lower elementary match to PCES) on a COSA to get away from KMES's dual language, rather than the usual Glen Haven COSA offering, because his brother was changing schools.

KMES has continued to decline in every possible way.  When our youngest finished kindergarten, he was a semester behind in reading, but we were told not to worry because that's normal for that school.

When we moved to MKES for 1st grade, his reading level immediately placed him in focus reading support, and by the end of the first quarter, he was a semester [i]ahead[/i] in reading.  At MKES, to compare regular programs, not comparing to a CES, my youngest had fantastic support and instruction for grades 1-2, and will be in the regular program at PCES in the fall (he hopes to get into the CES, now being more than a year ahead in reading, as well as excelling in math).  At MKES, being smart and enjoying reading and math are encouraged among the students, and little girls have told my youngest that they like him because he's so smart, and he has lots of friends who like to read and learn together, which is a far cry from the constant bullying my oldest had from boys and girls for being smart at KMES.[/quote]

Kemp Mill is Title I, but Montgomery Knolls and Pine Crest are not.[/quote]

You'd think somebody who'd had children at all 3 schools would know that.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/dtecps/title1/schools.aspx[/quote]

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