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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do these ratings come from?  Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA.  Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs.  Maybe they will need more private tutoring.  [/quote]

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them. [/quote]

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars. [/quote]

This. What a dummy the OP is [/quote]

I had a colleague claim college degrees didn't matter either (he didn't have one).  Of course he left the job long ago.  Also knew a PhD who got his degree from a no-name college in the middle of nowhere.  It's embarrassing when he meets a real PhD from a good school and can't hold an intelligent conversation.

School rankings drive prosperity.  Educated parents or parents who care about their children's education are drawn towards highly-ranked schools.  Similarly, elite colleges keep an eye on high school rankings since schools that don't groom elite academic programs don't prepare their students well.  Top schools don't want to waste their time teaching basics that a mediocre college can teach.

But that's not the MCPS CO.  I've met a few MCPS Central Office staff that are pure prima donnas.  They push their own personal social agendas into school politics and honestly are ruining the school system for all parents.  Most of them are part of the [b]"equity over equality"[/b] crowd that senior administration is afraid to fire.  In my opinion, these folks push their personal agendas over their professional responsibilities as educators.  They're dangerous and harmful to children's' futures.

I think this anti-academic attitude will spell the end of MCPS as a national-level school system.  It will go the way of other public schools as "where poor people send their kids to keep them out of jail".  Private schools will fill the void once that happens and, like many other public school districts, will likely never recover.

It's sad no one will stand up and fire these folks.  It is what it is I guess.[/quote]

I don't think they are pushing equity at all. They barely invest any money to support kids from low income families. They just create policies that use an[b] equality [/b]framework - like the lack of discipline in schools or grade inflation - to act like they care about equity. They don't even know what equity means.[/quote]

I've been saying this for a little while now.

The policy at MCPS has been lowering the bar instead of raising the bottom.  And they use more lax standards and discipline so numbers that people would be concerned about won't be high.  But they're not doing anyone favors and/or preparing them for life after high school.  What's some of the narratives they give?  Oh these families will only go so far.  So don't add additional burden to them by making their kids do homework at home.  Or teach them a trade job, instead of preparing them for college.

Whereas other nearby school systems actually focus on the quality of education.  They have special groups and initiatives for Black and Brown students to celebrate and encourage their academic achievements.  For students that struggle in math classes, they offer an extra period of math for them.  Then you see their results two or three years later, where they're doing fine in math without needing these extra classes anymore.  True, maybe these other school systems are smaller and have the resources for these kind of things now and would struggle once they run into the same issues as MCPS.  But in the near future, those school systems would serve my family better and when they need it more.

It's apparent too, where MCPS is declining in rankings when compared to other local school systems in several factors.  State test scores, absences, chronic absence, wealth, etc.[/quote]

The challenge is the incorrect idea that these same things don't exist at MCPS when they do.  There are groups like the Black & Brown coalition, Identity, NAACP parent's council, Minority scholars program, etc.  Plenty of student have resource classes, or pull out from reading and math specialist.  There are actually some EML students that move through the levels and exit the language program.

Yes MCPS has things that need to be improved and need to change.  It also has things that the other school systems don't like a huge array of special programs and magnets.  Ask people if they are willing to give those up to get more of the things you speak of?  However, they will go to a new school system and just accept that those things don't exist. [/quote]

The Black and Brown Coalition is two people that meet with nonprofits to advocate for Black and Brown students but they don't provide direct services. MCPS does fund some services provided by nonprofits but services specifically targeting Black students are few and far between. A lot are focused on Latino students. Services for EML students are primarily funded by federal and state dollars. MCPS like every other school system is required to provide these services. MCPS does provide pull out interventions but IME these are limited and we had to hire a tutor because my kid is below grade level but not getting an intervention.[/quote]

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