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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ all kinds of assumptions in that post.  [/quote]

[b]Not assumptions but generalizations[/b].  There can be some ESOL students who have truly just a language barrier.  However the generalizations holds true with my experience in a Title 1 schools with > 80% ESOL.

And I will not try and be PC in an anonymous forum.  OP can choose to do what she wants to do with this input. Getting a transfer is not going to be easy in MCPS. Her choices are limited to staying in the school and making sure that the kid is getting enriched instruction outside of school; hoping that her kid gets into HGC; changing her address and of course private school.

In MCPS the race lines, the language lines, the socio-economic lines are all coinciding.  I am however not that arrogant to say that White and Asians are doing better because they are smarter.  They are doing better simply because they are being provided more opportunities to succeed by their parents. [b] In the cases where African Americans and Hispanic kids are thriving and excelling  - they are also mostly coming from highly educated, middle class (or above) families. [/b]

Schools in Bethesda and Potomac are not doing well because the water there magically increases brain-power.

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Yea cause they usually don't
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You do realize the same could be said about White folk as well
See these are the kinds of idiots I don't want my kid going to school with...[/quote]

Since you do not have the basic reading comprehension required to understand my post...I did mention that race, language and socioeconomic lines are mostly coinciding in MCPS...which translated means that the racial groups that are not doing well,  by and large,  are also the ones where a large number of individuals who are at a lower socioeconomic strata, and probably also have language barriers.

It could  very well be said about White folks too.  And I would not want to send my child to a school if 80% of the kids came from a trailer park, had parents who are poorly educated, were in need of FARMS assistance,  even if they were all white.

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I think you have missed my point -- the way you said it -- most definitely makes it sound as if low income folks are usually black and hispanic and that it is an oddity if they are middle class...yes..that is how it comes across[/quote]

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