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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VM family and we have no interest in joining the snobby rich folks at WJ. We are pleased with the prospect of Woodward, which I assume will be a step up academically and otherwise from Wheaton. And accounting for traffic on Old Georgetown, WJ is also an additional ~10 minute drive from our house than Woodward. Stop trying to use my family (and our ES cluster) as a pawn in your social engineering project. [/quote]

This honestly shouldn't be about what parents want. It should be about what is best for the kids. The realities are:
- MCPS does not allocate extra resources to high schools based on the number of FARMS students (despite being allocated state funding for this purpose)
- Mountains of research show that concentrated poverty is really bad for kids
- just like wealthy kids there are many bright kids from families with low incomes and many kids that are struggling, but due to the challenges associated with poverty a much larger share of kids from low income families struggle academically
- spreading out kids with more needs across high schools means more resources to support the struggling kids[/quote]

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