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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so frustrated.  :x Why is it that you have to spend close to a million dollars, or more, on a home, just so your kid can get a quality education without paying $30,000 a year?  It's as if a child doesn't deserve a good education, unless their parents make a certain amount of money, & can afford to live in "the right neighborhood".  This seems to be the case in DC, MD, & VA.

I consider us a middle class family, if that exists anymore, & Great Schools gives every school in the neighborhoods that we can afford an average of a "4".  We can't afford the neighborhoods ranking schools 7 and up.

I'm sorry, but I just believe whether you make $1,000,000 a year, or $30,000 a year, each child deserves the best.

My rant for the day.[/quote]

The problem here is that the metric you are using by which to judge a good school is one that is very highly correlated with income. Rich kids do well on standardized test scores. The kids make the school, not vice versa.[/quote]

The problem is not that rich kids score better on standardized tests, but rather that poor kids score worse. Slacker rich kids can coast along just fine when their cohort buoys them, but a brilliant poor kid has to work a helluva lot harder to post the same numbers when her cohort weighs her down. [/quote]

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