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Here's the quote from 15:43:
At Bethesda Elementary, I looked up the same statistic, and white, grade 5 reading for Bethesda Elementary is 98%. It looks like those white kids are testing nearly the same despite the presence of the lower-scoring kids in their class. It's not clear the lower-scoring kids are bringing anyone down.

Wow!  I guess you don't recognize how racist that sounds.  So it's OK for "the others" (aka "them") to score low as long as the whites are still achieving.

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I'll answer this because I feel the need to defend myself from this charge. I posted this because the claim had been made that having poorer or minority children in a class created a negative learning environment for all the rest of the children. I was only attempting to show that, according to the scores, this was not occurring at this particular school. No racism was intended, and in fact the whole point was to show that diverse schools can benefit lower-achieving students without negatively affecting the higher-achieving students. When you post to this board, please consider giving the original poster the benefit of the doubt.[/quote]

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