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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If MCPS has good schools with top-notch education programs, FARMS won't matter one way or the other.  Parents that care about education will relocate to the county for their children's educational opportunities.

It seems MCPS has given up trying to provide top-notch programs.  Now their only strategy is to shift around poor people in the hopes of watering down issues at their home schools.

However, the assumption that poor=problem is one MCPS CO is making up themselves.  Instead the CO should step up and go sit daily at the schools with problems and instead of at Hungerford.  And they should sit there, at that school, until it's problems have been fixed.[/quote]

This is nonsense. Even in MCPS, there's a direct correlation between test scores and poverty. Schools with the least poverty have the highest averages. Even schools where many kids do as well as anywhere have a lower average because they shoulder more poverty. You can try to pretend it doesn't matter but it really does.[/quote]

This is nonsense.  Even in MCPS, you can pretend that FARMS can be solved by the school, but not really.

The "direct correlation between test scores and poverty" is pretty straight-forward.  Parents who are educated tend to educate at home and seek out schools with high academic standards.  Parents who are not educated, on average, earn less income.  A child without academic support at home is less likely to academically succeed.  The compensating factor would be to offer free tutoring (which MCPS did).  The question is how many FARMS students even took advantage of the program?  You can lead a horse to water..

Pretend all you want, but the school can't change a child's parents.[/quote]

Some of it is also genetics.  Those with higher incomes often have higher IQ's they pass onto their kids/[/quote]

Poor kids and rich kids are not each homogenous groups. Most poor kids care about school and are bright, some are even gifted, but they are put in learning environments with the most troubled children and that are least conducive to learning[/quote]

Wrong. With restorative justice, classrooms are equitable.[/quote]

Great.  So there should be no problem adjusting boundaries to relieve crowding.  The RJ and other initiatives would simply follow, proportionately, the populations in need to preserve that equitability.[/quote]

Huh?  You’re smoking some serious pot.  If Crown or Rio gets trashed by gangs and drug dealers in the name of RJ and equity, you can bet the Council will be looking for other employment- and not with MCPS since their budget would get slashed to pay for damages.  Rio is one of the few relatively-low-crime-areas in the county.[/quote]
Take this bull somewhere else.[/quote]

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