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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to put it simply. School performance will go down. School ratings will go down. This directly affects property values. It always has and always will. I’m not sure what’s so hard to understand about this?

When you take a low performing school and just move the students to a different school it doesn’t actually change the way those students perform in any way shape or form.[/quote]

But when you mix them with high performing students it can help[/quote]

The biggest issue these kids face is lack of parent involvement.  It’s the literal number 1 reason these kids fail. Their parents are working sometimes multiple jobs and they are often home alone for extended periods of time.  School is simply not the priority. This will not change when their school changes-their family stays the same. I work in a MS in the Gaithersburg district. [/quote]
as a teacher, you should know that it can help when a school does not have a huge FARMs rate.  It's about resources.   Sure, some kids will not do well irrespective of whether they go to GHS or Crown or even Churchill, but for some, it will help.

-former low income student[/quote]

What is the threshold for the FARMS rate, where there's is a notable difference in a school's performance?

When some other school districts were trying to rebalance, they were targetting the high 20s.  In the initial round of proposals, posters were saying that it was perfectly fine that Crown was projected to have a 35 to 45 percent FARMS rate because the county's average is 60 percent. (which it's not)

Part of the issue is the way that MCPS does things.  Where instead of trying to raise the bottom, they try to slow down the higher performers.  We saw this in our child's math class.  Where they'd stop instruction several weeks early each marking period because the teacher told the class that they were ahead compared to the rest of the county.

Then you have posters on here that keep trying to gaslight people saying that no one needs to take MV Calculus in high school.

Just because the  majority of the school system has issues in scoring proficient in the standardized state assessments, don't hold back the students that are able to perform on or ahead of level.

Same thing with removing/changing the countywide magnet and IB programs.

And one of the selling points that administrators at private schools would say, is that a class will move at the pace of the slowest students in the class.

-also a former low income student who's parents chose to be house poor to live in a good school district, and understand that there is more to being success at a school than just sitting in the same class with high performers and somehow hoping to gain their peers traits through osmosis or something.  So realized how important it was to find a place/environment where  my kids would fit in demographically, academically and economically[/quote]

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