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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the people giving them a hard time for not giving their name on an anonymous forum.

Post your name here folks, if you would do it there, do it here.

In the mean time, someone please explain to me how an under-performing student is suddenly going to do well in an over-performing school.    [/quote]

Does BoE draw boundaries based on student test scores? I don't remember student test scores being a factor in boundary decisions.[/quote]

If they did not claim certain SES groups did not perform well and they wanted to help those groups performing, there would no point in making such SES considerations at all.
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SES = socioeconomic status (based on income, education, occupation)

MCPS does not make decisions based on students' parents' socioeconomic status. In fact, MCPS doesn't even have data about students' parents' socioeconomic status.

What's more, even if MCPS did have data about students' parents' socioeconomic status (which it doesn't) and made boundary decisions based on students' parents' socioeconomic status (which it doesn't), an individual student's parents' socioeconomic status still would tell you NOTHING - zip, zero, zilch - about that individual student's test scores.[/quote]

Isn't FARMS  part of SES?

And of course I know nothing about an individual student' performance. But I do know their school's average performance. Without more data, I would naturally assume a neighborhood from a high-performing/low-performing school contains more high-performing/low-performing students.

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FARMs is a binary measure of household income - either you qualify for FARMs, or you don't. You could be $1 over the limit, you could be $1 million over the limit, you could be $1 under the limit, you could have a household income of $0, it's all the same.

And household income is only one aspect of socioeconomic status.

DCUM likes to use FARMs as a proxy measure of socioeconomic status, but it's not a good one.

Also, as with SES, here's what you know about an individual student's test scores when you know the average test scores of the school the individual student attends: nothing.[/quote]

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