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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher and longtime public school parent and I absolutely agree “good schools” is a loaded term. We have a racial test score gap everywhere in this country. So while it would be taboo to say “I want a school without black and Hispanic students,” it is perfectly acceptable in polite society to say “I only want a school with the top scores,” which gets you the same segregated outcome. Parents are literally afraid of black and Hispanic children and of low-income children of all colors because they perceive that they lower their own children’s prospects and also lower their home values when they’re in the same district. Frankly I find it morally wrong. I think we will look back in horror someday at how we chose housing prices based on how white a school was.

My own kids have gone to public schools rated 4-6 or so, and have had great experiences. Their education and their experiences have not had anything to do with those “rankings.”[/quote]

Then you and the OP can enroll your children in the “schools without the top scores.” Put your money where your mouth is. [/quote]

Yup, I just said that. Schools rated 4, 5, and 6.[/quote]

Are they the kind of 4-6 that has a cohort of high scoring kids but the equity score brings down the end number? [/quote]

NP. I think this is its own kind of terrible environment. It subconsciously sends a message to the “high scoring” kids that poor and minority children are not smart. Because that’s what they are observing everyday at school. The higher scoring kids also feel like geniuses for out scoring their peers, when in the grand scheme of things they are likely just average.[/quote]

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