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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re a VM family was clear in the original options that our neighborhood was a bargaining chip for MCPS, especially in the options that split the school in half along beach drive. We are happy that Taylor’s rev keeps VM together.

We support any elementary school that wants to avoid split articulation for HS. We don’t support well-off parents deciding and proposing which less well-off families get booted out of their school.

The irony of this whole argument is that I grew up a FARMS kid and now I’m teaching your children, but now my kids aren’t good enough to be in a school with yours?

This feels a lot like the podcast Nice White Parents.[/quote]

This honestly shouldn't be about what parents want. It should be about what is best for the kids. The realities are:
- MCPS does not allocate extra resources to high schools based on the number of FARMS students (despite being allocated state funding for this purpose)
- Mountains of research show that concentrated poverty is really bad for kids
- just like wealthy kids there are many bright kids from families with low incomes and many kids that are struggling, but due to the challenges associated with poverty a much larger share of kids from low income families struggle academically
- spreading out kids with more needs across high schools means more resources to support the struggling kids[/quote]

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