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[quote=Anonymous][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]

And how would it be in the best interest of the KIDS in our cluster to drive directly past Woodward just to sit in extra traffic every day to get to WJ? If you're worried about equalizing FARMS rates, you should be concerned about schools like Kennedy. 35% is not high farms. Get a grip.[/quote]

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