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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?[/quote]

It’s largely because of the AAP program, which pulls the highest performing kids out of their neighborhood schools and sends them to a center school starting in third grade, which is the year that kids take the Virginia SOL which are used to compute the Great Schools ratings...

I’m sure most schools would not fare well if you excluded the highest 20% of academic performers from their official evaluations.[/quote]

So your point/argument is that while the schools aren't great and most of the good kids aren't shipped away to be isolated form the Rt1 kids, even if yours arent they will be fine?  There is a reason there is a life boat for 20% of the kids.

Why do you think they ship 20% of the kids away? Why do you think they make the standards for AAP basically = middle class. There rarely life boats on ships that aren't sinking. The 20% life raft for the middle class has nothing to do with enrichment other than the official reason to keep it legal. I am not saying a middle class kid can't come out of all of that. All I am saying is most parents with 2 brain cells to rub together know they can do better elsewhere.  [/quote]

The ship wouldn’t be sinking but for the fact that [b]they are sinking it[/b], and it is primarily socioeconomic/race-based.  All the faux liberal upper middle class white families bend over backwards to game the system to get their slightly above average kids in AAP so they can brag about living in a diverse area without their kids actually having to be exposed to a diverse group of people.[/quote]

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