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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look any school with a high FARMS population and some regular SES kids that perform at or above grade level is going to have challenges. Plus MCPS puts a huge time demand on teachers for data collection which takes away from their ability to teach kids that are 3 or more grade levels a part in one room. Kids who are way below grade level can drag down schools even when the higher SES population grows. The problem is that the low SES kids lack the background knowledge that is assumed (inappropriately) by the current curriculum. This hopefully will improve somewhat with 2.0 going away but the deficiencies and need for the teacher to step back all the time so those kids can have a chance at catching up is still a challenge. This all gets 100% worse when a school is large so at a school like OT is going to be better than PBES even though PBES is more desirable because there are more high or regular SES kids than OT.

I have seen mixed SES schools or even high FARMS with some regular SES schools do this very well in other areas/states. The difference is having a curriculum that allows for some level of self pacing or tracking for acceleration, having multiple aides in a classroom, and teachers being able to dedicate most of their time toward teaching. Those are not aspects of MCPS. [/quote]

Having the Focus designation is good as it gives smaller class sizes and other perks.

However, most of the low performing kids at this school as well as any child with an IEP regardless of what is in the IEP are generally forced into the "collaborative" class, which is basically the special needs classroom with a few other kids mixed in.[/quote]

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