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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This shouldn't be taken as a bible but it's nice to have some ideas. I notice the schools consistently are given C grades. IMO, student performance reflects parents' education levels regardless of the school they attend.

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I can tell you this is not true. Kids performance reflects parents attitudes and value system. I’ve seen pleanty of low achieving kids from highly educated families. I barely graduated high school and only attended college sporadically. My older son just finished 11th grade with AP physics, AP chemistry, 
DE multi variable calculus, German 5, and AP English. He scored 5s on all of his exams and had a 4.4. My youngest son isn’t in high school, but is in a private school and gets all As and scored very well on his independent  school testing they use for high school admissions. Why? My DH and I make their education a priority. Their job is school and they are expected to perform well. This has been the case since day 1 and it comes natural now to them.

I have risen to VP level at my company and out earn my DH. Above all I value a hard work ethic. Not giving 100% is unacceptable and my kids have stepped up to the plate.  Unfortunately my parents didn’t care about my grades, but I had inner drive to succeed in a different way. High achieving schools and kids are born from parents who have good values. PG has a low quality demographic.[/quote]

Because brown and black people don’t have values?  They don’t prioritize education.  You are clearly out of touch with the reality outside your bubble and a self important twit.  
I can tell you from experience that the highest achieving kids at the TAG and Science and Tech program are POC.  Many parents push their kids hard to succeed.  The big difference is that they can’t necessarily afford private tutors to get them through school and have to be self reliant.  
My kids are in a PGCPS TAG middle school and many of the parents have terminal degrees.   I know several POC kids from the middle college program who had perfect SAT scores. 
Are there kids who struggle?  Of course.  Do some of the work part time or need to help their families after school, yep.  Do some parents work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet, yes. 
How many kids in high income areas have parents that work late and on weekends?  How many corporate VPs are absent from the dinner table because they are on the phone?  
Just because people aren’t affluent doesn’t mean that they don’t have values.

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