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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now it used to be that if you asked around to find out which schools were the whitest, you would get some nasty accusations of racism. Not anymore! Check out GreatSchools, where ratings are nearly 100% correlated with race. The higher the number, the more white kids. The lower the number, the more black and Hispanic kids. It's that easy! And you can still tell your friends "We don't care what color the kids are. We just want the best schools." Everybody wins!

(Yes, of course I'm sarcastic. Not everybody wins. In fact, nearly all neighborhoods lose with such a targeted tool for white-flight. In the meantime, nobody learns anything about each school's principal, class size, facilities, discipline policy, philosophy, class offerings, etc. Just test scores. They're all that matters now. Am I bitter? You bet. People will say I'm just mad my school's rating dropped. Yes I am. This goddamn GreatSchools formula turns the fantastic kids at my local school into a liability -- little anchors weighing down property values. This is wrong.)

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You answered your own question.

No one defines "a very good school" by Test Scores alone. So no one pays attention to GreatSchool since it is myopic.

Take a tour of your school, ESPECIALLY if it's an elementary school. Totally different from pre-2013.  Hope you like the class schedule.  Hope you like the constant MAP tests.  Hope you like your teachers and schools tied to the pacing of the slowest of the 60+ ESs.  Hope you like Chromebooks "teaching" your 1st grader.  Hope you don't mind your kid never learns to write on paper, only keyboarding.  Hope you like 1 PE class a week, no fulltime art teacher, no languages, no library books (all on chromebook, yay!).

yeah, a really great school. It's only "great" if you show up not knowing english. THen you get free dental, healthcare, backpacks, meals, counseling, tutoring and babysitting before/after school. Now that's a GREAT escuela. Keep em coming MoCo! [/quote]

We are at a Focus School that you would probably disdain and I have NO IDEA what you are talking about here. My kids write on paper (and do keyboarding), there is a well-stocked school library with plenty of high level books for my strong readers, 1.5 fulltime art teachers, and aftercare isn't free for anyone, including low income families. [/quote]

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