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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No matter where you are on the political spectrum—you can be a heart-bleeding liberal, but the simple fact that you live in Fairfax, Arlington, or Montgomery County makes your child’s adversity score very low.  If you believe that adversity scoring is wrong, do something.  Please sign the petition at http://chng.it/QJqtJgq2[/quote]

Your assumptions are incorrect. There are schools in Montgomery County that are 90% FARMS and ESOL, and many schools with majority poor kids. Of course those kids will have high adversity scores.[/quote]

Not necessarily. I read it's nationally normed. My local school is about 60% FARMS and about 30% ESOL. In Maryland, we're in the bottom 25% of the state. But nationally, we're middle 50%. [b]Poor MD kids may be privileged compared to poor Appalachian kids[/b].[/quote]

But the poor MoCo students will have higher adversity index than others in Montgomery County, such as Whitman or Walter Johnson. And since admissions at selective colleges works by region (x many from DMV, x many from Illinois, etc) Appalachia is pretty irrelevant to a student from Montgomery County.[/quote]

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