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Reply to "s/o Why are parents around here so worried about kids who receive free lunch?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Not only are the FARMS students not dragging down their affluent counterparts" Those state tests are a floor that kids SHOULD be meeting - that's why in the well-off schools you have almost 100% of kids meeting the floor benchmarks. Meeting the floor does not mean that kids are meeting their full potential. As a PP noted, the concern w/ lots of FARMS/ESL kids in a school is that the teachers end up spending lots of time flocused on them and while I am sure my DD would still be passing the minimum benchmarks for her grade, I doubt her teachers would have time to make sure she's learning as much as SHE can when they need to devote so much time to kids who don't even know English. I don't have ill will towards those kids, but I also care most about what is best for my own kid.[/quote] But in MCPS, teachers in Potomac, Bethesda, etc will have about 10 more kids per class room (in k-2) than teachers in schools like Highland View noted above.[/quote]
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