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[quote=Anonymous]Anonymous wrote:
[quote]Really? There are plenty of hard working, earnest teachers and staff across MCPS, even at the schools on the lower end of DCUM ranking lists.

Yes, there are. However, the analysis had to do with how effective a school program was overall - not how hard the teachers worked. There are many situations, to include the parents of the students, that affect the numbers. The point is that if you know this, you can do something about it (if you wanted to). If a child is written off as not meeting college standards, for whatever reason, then it may be time to add more data. Maybe there were students who scored poorly on the SAT's, but never intended to go to college anyway. For example, a student may be in a bad home situation, or perhaps works with relatives in a family business, or some other reason.

For example, I've seen post after post over the years how some are advocating to ship off the children to other schools to make another school's numbers look better. Does that really do the child any good? If you want to prepare a child for life, can you offer a German-style Gymnasium program (e.g. trade school) instead?

There are many roads to and levels of success. The question is - has MCPS taken this into consideration and ensured a child has the best possible chance in Life? If so, then it's something to celebrate. If not, and the money they received is used to only make decision-makers look good, that's a problem.

I've seen where MCPS will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on studies for equity's sake. Why not a study on the children who score low on the SAT (ex. below 1000)? If it's been published, I know I haven't seen it. Perhaps by better understanding the problems involved, it will be possible to find better solutions?[/quote]

These high SES schools simply have parents that spend lavishly on extracurricular academic enrichment, tutors, and years of test prep.  Pure and simple.  Entitlement to a plethora of extracurricular academic enrichment, academic remediation, excessive test prep, and an epidemic of accommodation privelages for high school work and college board tests.

[quote]You have some very strange views. Please seek help.[/quote][/quote]

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