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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You realize that even in a diverse school, struggling students are usually in very different classes than successful students...right?  The opportunity for role models is small.  When MCPS looked at the differences between Twinbrook ES and the other schools in the RM cluster, Twinbrook parents were (understandably)not convinced their kids would be better off removed from small Title 1 classes to be bussed to a different school where they would have classes 2x the size.  It is a very complex issue. [/quote]
Peoviding equal opportunity means open all AP and IB classes to every student in MCPS, [b]regardless the grade and classes a student took.  Wellbeing students will sit in the same classroom with the[/b]  [b]other students. All students will learn and success[/b]![/quote]

No, that's not what is going to happen. "Wellbeing" students will sure sit in the same classroom with "the other students", but the other students will be so behind academically that the teacher will have to tailor lessons to their level to get at least some reaction out of them. That will water down the courses, "wellbeing" students will not learn anything, and there is still no guarantee that "the other students" catch up.

[b]The achievement gap needs to be closed BEFORE middle school -- and not in high school AP classes - because, come middle school, it is already too late.[/quote]

This is so cultural. You are dealing with students whose parents never finished middle school in this country or another one. They don't do preventative care, they think paying HC insurance premiums is wrong, they work cash jobs and have Auntie raise them with their cousins, they send $100s a month back to the home country family, they never bother to learn nor use English.

Then the other culture - no father figure, rap and sports icons, violence instead of discussion, pick on those who study "like a white person", etc.

Maybe OP desires the socialist boarding school for the millions of at risk babies age 2 through 18. What is that? $100,000 per pupil room, board, field trips?  Then they can graduate and create more socialist programs. Just keep paying them taxes on the books MoCo!![/b][/quote]

I hate to say it.. but THIS. [/quote]

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