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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't even care that a family is avoiding a high FARMS school (even though I think they might be missing out because there are some great Title I and Focus schools).  What bothers me is that this guy actually WON the lottery by getting any spot at all.

It also bothers me because Jawando ran in the Democratic primary as a progressive, and partially on the strength of his experience working on education issues in the White House.  If even our progressive politicians with an education policy focus won't use their local public schools, or really any schools with a high FARMS rate, then where are we?  [/quote]

He's a hypocrite.  That was my point.  You can dance around the subject again and again, but you can't hide from the school data (FARMs and feeder patterns) and the Archdiocese boundaries. And yes, I realize that parish schools can pull from different areas since not all parishes have schools.  It's still worth investigating if he continues to move forward with his lawsuit.

Had his kid gotten in to RCF, there would be no lawsuit.  Any advocate is proactive, not reactive.  This issue emerged when it directly affected him.  And his new parish school isn't exactly in a low-income area either.  Tuition there, however, is actually less than the parish school for which he is zoned.  a win-win for him![/quote]

+1 and my child attends RT language immersion program and the truth is the program is a school within a school.  No way the FARM rate for Spanish Immersion is above 15% at RT.[/quote]

And there's no way the RCF one is either, in fact I would highly doubt there are any FARMS kids in the immersion program. MCPS likes to pull the wool over people's eyes by using a FARMS rate of the combined programs. It masks that the rate is really higher on the English sides (thus denying the school Title 1 status) and makes the immersion programs look a lot more diverse than they actually are. [/quote]

I worry that the practice of showing combined scores also masks test scores.  You have one group of kids who by definition have highly involved parents that are willing to inconvenience themselves for the sake of bilingual education - those kids are going to be better supported and have better test scores than their counterparts in the "Academies."  This pulls the scores up for those schools without meaning anything for the quality of education the kids are getting if they won't "win" the lottery.  You also have other schools that are magnets for kids with learning disabilities or behavioural challenges, which pull down those scores without meaning anything for the kids not in those programs.  It makes it really hard for families to figure out which schools will be a good fit and provide a high quality education.  [/quote]

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