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[quote=Anonymous]to the poster who takes issue with the generalizations of educational backgrounds of FARMS families etc.  I'm not the poster you're responding to, but I am one of the posters who has elected, after visiting the school and researching my options, decided not to send my kid to an almost exclusively poor/ESOL school.  Of course you're right that generalizations will sometimes miss the mark, but at least at our school, the fact is that you are dealing with a largely uneducated immigrant population who live in the nearby apartment complexes.  I know of families who don't fit the profile and it's surprising to learn that they are eligible for FARMS (somebody lost a job; they work in social services and have a career but not much earning potential etc.), but when you're at a school that is predominately ESOL and FARMS (and by predominately, I mean hitting or at least inching towards the 90% mark), and you interact with those parents at school events etc., and just look around, it isn't racist or prejudicial/animus leading you to these conclusions.  It's a readily apparent fact.   It won't always be the case, but the poster who makes some of those generalizations is dealing with established and documented demographics of the poorer side of the montgomery county (or at least that's the part of maryland I'm talking about) and it's not a secret or in legitimate dispute.  It's one of the big challenges faced by the school district and they know it, and as far as I know they acknowledge it, because the teachers will confirm it.  [/quote]

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