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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montgomery County schools are not what they used to be.  the great schools are not allowed to be great anymore because everyone has to be equal. [/quote]
They are better and more diverse [/quote]
The diverse thing is tired. Is school no longer about academics? [/quote]

Depends on what you mean. All mcps schools have more or less the same academic opportunities. The test score averages by which some people rate school quality are just a reflection of an area's overall SES. In HS, that matters a lot less since low and high-performing kids self-segregate.[/quote]

NP here - can you pls explain this to me; just trying to understand, since we are also looking at both Pyle/ Whitman and Westland/BCC. Why does high SES affect the test score average? 
thanks![/quote]

There are many reasons why test scores can be affected by SES, among them:

[i]Children from low-SES families are less likely to have experiences that encourage the development of fundamental skills of reading acquisition, such as phonological awareness, vocabulary, and oral language (Buckingham, Wheldall, & Beaman-Wheldall, 2013).

Children’s initial reading competency is correlated with the home literacy environment, number of books owned, and parent distress (Aikens & Barbarin, 2008; Bergen, Zuijen, Bishop, & Jong, 2016). However, poor households have less access to learning materials and experiences, including books, computers, stimulating toys, skill-building lessons, or tutors to create a positive literacy environment (Bradley, Corwyn, McAdoo, & García Coll, 2001; Orr, 2003).

Prospective college students from low-SES backgrounds are less likely to have access to informational resources about college (Brown, Wohn, & Ellison , 2016). Additionally, compared to high-SES counterparts, young adults from low-SES backgrounds are at a higher risk of accruing student loan debt burdens that exceed the national average (Houle, 2014).[/i]

[url]https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/education[/url][/quote]

Thank you, but then I still do not understand -sorry, not from here. Does this then not affect the actual quality of learning/academics at school? People here seem to say that BCC and Whitman are similarly good. But one scores at 7/10 on Greatschools, the other one 9 or 10.[/quote]

Great Schools only compares the schools within a jurisdiction.  So a DC 10 is not necessarily the same quality as a Maryland 10.[/quote]

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