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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Also one of the things I often point out in the choices that people (my parents) make is comments like Jalen Rose said about his childhood.  Where he said something along the lines of, growing up he and his friends didn't even know they were poor because everyone around them was poor.

So is something I've reflected about in my own childhood and seeing others with my own family background grow up in environments among other families with similar backgrounds.  And is why it's important for me that my kids are in an environment where they can fit in.

This can be a diverse environment, which was one of our earlier criterias when we were searching for a home.   Where we automatically ruled out any areas with more then a fifty percent population of any group and our own demographic had less then twenty percent.

I'm not saying it's okay to segregate populations by income and not to provide resources to groups that need them.

But also mixing up demographics isn't really fixing the root of the problems.[/quote]

And you think that by moving Wootton to Crown and adding in some more kids to fill it up you run this risk? Have you looked at the Wootton demographics already? It may add some poor kids but that is the only demographic that will change. Race, English speakers etc percentages will likely stay pretty comparable[/quote]

I personally don't have any issues with Option H other than ensuring safe walking zones.

Maybe the size of the school because it means more competition for fewer spots.

But I've been advocating that Fields Road ES should be assigned to the Crown location or stay with QO since first seeing Option H.

I also have no issues if they put in more feeder schools from more lower income areas.  Because like I've been saying it might help one or two students who benefits from the exposure to the peer groups and access to the resources.  Which is one of the only benefits I see of the six regional model.  But also like I said, it's not really doing anything to help the struggling students and just mix in their numbers with the overall numbers and end hiding them.

As long as the school doesn't do anything crazy like trying to reduce the rigors or offerings, saying something like, "well the majority of the school isn't on level, so we'll slow things down and take away some offerings"  Which we did see at our elementary school when the new principal came in.  But given the majority of the area that the school would be pulling from, would hope that it wouldn't be an issue.

I'm only speaking for myself though and not for other Wootton families though.[/quote]

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