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I like schools where the parentS are not illiterate, uneducated and unskilled.  I value reading, teaching, education, working hard, and building skills.  What GreatSchool should I live by?[/quote]

Well, that's a tough one. If you want a school attended by students whose parents aren't illiterate and unskilled, then you should move to an area where everybody is rich. (If you can afford it.) That's no guarantee that the teachers or administrators at that school will be good, though -- so that doesn't solve your "I value teaching and education" part. For that part, you should look at staff turnover and at schools where disadvantaged kids do better than the norm. But this in turn creates its own problems, because usually schools where [b]disadvantaged kids do better than the norm [/b]aren't in areas where everybody is rich. And then there are the questions of valuing reading (being able to read is no guarantee of valuing reading), [b]valuing working hard (here I think you'll do best at schools with lots of students whose parents are poor immigrants)[/b], and valuing building skills (MCPS only has one vocational high school, unfortunately, but a lot of high schools (for example, Gaithersburg HS) do have skill-based programs). As I said, a tough one![/quote]

Pls quantify this? The kids are better behaved, speaking and listening to classmates, pushing for good effort on projects and tests?  What norm are you talking about?

Half the immigrant kids at our school are single mothers living with cousins. I just hope they don't get pregnant or drop out before graduating. data isn't pretty here. [/quote]

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