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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is about a 30%-40% difference in math and reading proficiency scores between Fields road and the Wootton cluster elementary schools.

Why do you think this is? I will tell you why-parent engagement. Many of the lower performing elementary schools have parents that are working multiple jobs, The kids are left alone sometimes for extended periods. Academics takes a back seat. Not saying they have full control over this but this is the reality.

I love how some of you think these kids will magically become high performers when moved to Crown. I’m sure they already had great teachers who tried to push them to achieve. Unless you have a ton of internal motivation that simply doesn’t work. [/quote]

Exactly this. Why should families that worked hard for a home in the Wootton cluster have to send their kids to school with classmates who are less motivated, less engaged, and less successful? [/quote]

If you are both real people posting in good faith about what you think about kids that attend Fields Road, I can tell you it sounds like your kids and your family as a whole will benefit a lot from being part of a community with kids from Fields Road. You will hopefully become less ignorant and more resilient. To those of us whose kids attend racially and socioeconomically diverse schools, it sounds like you are suffering greatly from disordered thinking, and I really hope you get better.
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“disordered thinking” So you think the statistics about math and reading proficiency are made up? [/quote]

You are saying that there are minimum qualifications to go to school at Wootton with high-achieving students, so that should be across the board and regardless of where kids live, they should be shut out without minimum GPA's, high level courses, and at least 1400 SAT (so 90%).  There are kids at Wootton who are struggling - academically, homelife, and emotionally - look at some of the stuff that has happened there.  Good families are subjective.   You can have your basic needs met by money, but not emotionally or in other ways.  Plenty of kids with mental health and other issues there, just like in all schools.  Looking down on a parent who makes less than you and say their kids cannot go to school with yours, speaks volumes of your character.  How much do you make?  So, what if families who make more than you deem your salary not enough and want your kids out?[/quote]

You are making this too emotional. It’s normal for people to want their kids to go to school with high achieving students. And I think we all want our kids to go to school with kids that are at least doing the bare minimum-being able to score proficiently on reading and math tests. These kids aren’t even meeting state benchmarks. We are not talking about a small gap in performance. We are talking about a huge gap. And you think it’s not going to make any difference? Although the curriculum is the “same” at every MCPS school-the reality of that is very different from school to school. Have you ever spoken to a teacher at a lower performing school? There is a huge difference in what is actually being covered when you have kids in the class that are so far behind. If there was a 5-10% difference this probably wouldn’t even be noticeable. But the kind of difference we are seeing here? Come on.  When kids don’t have college/trade school etc… in their future they stop caring about school. Then they either drop out or barely pass-both of which have a negative effect on a school.  [/quote]

No, it’s not normal.  I don’t care how your kids achieve, I care mine do.  So, should the lower achieving kids from those families be removed from the school as they don’t meet expectations.   Why is it ok for some low achieving students from those families who you deem worthy ok to attend but not ones from another local community whose parents may have equal or higher earning power.

I’m kinda shocked at the low incomes discussed in some of the Wootton threads.  Why would you stretch like that?[/quote]

Well, you can’t even form a coherent sentence in your reply. You are proving my point 🙂.[/quote]

No, you make no sense.  You are saying Wootton is for high achievers.  So, any lower achievers regardless of their parents income or address need to be immediately removed from the school.  [/quote]

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