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Disruptive students who don't care about education vs lots of designer drugs and high pressure.  I'll pick something in between. Luckily, MCPS does have HSs that are not these extremes.[/quote]

I'm always struck by the implicit assumption on DCUM that all students from rich families care about education. Some kids from poor families do, some kids from poor families don't, but all kids from rich families do. That's not my personal experience.[/quote]
I think it's just statistics. Of course, there are those on both sides who don't fit the stereotype.

Many low income schools, especially in the non honor/AP classes, have issues with disruptive students. That doesn't mean that wealthy schools don't have such students but it's just less, at least outwardly.  Conversely, there are "poor' students who value education, and there are those wealthy students who don't.

I grew up on the lower income side in a lower income school, and I took both AP and "regular" classes.  My AP classes almost never had disruptive students because this is a self selecting group of students who want to do well in school. In the regular classes, you had several students who didn't care and were quite disruptive.[/quote]

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