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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Luckily, “FARMS” is not contagious, so if your family has a good income, your kid will most likely do well despite higher FARMS percentage of students at a school. They might also get first “dibs” in leadership positions and athletic teams. [/quote]

It negatively impacts the learning environment. Schools have to teach to the lowest common denominator. If 25% of the students are below grade level, teachers waste alot of time trying to bring students up to grade level and neglect the higher performing students.[/quote]

[b]This doesn’t affect high schools as much when there are regular, honors and AP classes. The cohort of high achieving students is smaller at high FARMS schools, but the classes still follow the same fcps curriculum, and the students take the same AP exams. The high school might only offer two AP Lit sections instead of ten, but the coursework is the same[/b]. [/quote]

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And, I disagree with PP who said that schools have to teach to the lowest common denominator.  Even in elementary school, that does not happen, and there are Honors classes offered in middle school.

As an elementary teacher, I taught a very wide span of achievers.  It can be done.  Ever heard of reading groups? The lowest achievers usually get additional help from specialists, so that helps.  But, claiming that the teachers teach to the lowest denominator is flat wrong.
Of course, we all know that socio-economics makes a difference, but even in the poorest communities you find shining stars.
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DP. This is our 3rd year in FCPS, and my 4th and 1st grader have always answered NO/HUH/WHAT when I ask if they have a reading group at school. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen, but I've never heard anything from any teacher about any sort of reading groups either, to be fair.[/quote]

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