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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]First, there is no such thing as "Title I kids." There are Title I schools, based on the percentage of students who qualify for FARMS, [/b]and the FARMS percentage in FCPS has been relatively stable in recent years, and lower than in either Arlington or Prince William Counties. 
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As someone who taught "Title I kids" in the earliest days, it might interest you to know that in those days there were "Title I kids."  They were identified by individual child.  It is an improvement today to have "Title I schools" because one of the difficulties was keeping the non-Title I kids from using Title I resources.  For example, my part time aide was paid for by Title I and she was not supposed to help any child who was not identified as a Title I kid.  We purchased some materials with Title I--and were not supposed to use them with kids not identified as Title I.  It was ridiculous.  So, that is likely why the rule was changed to identify schools in that manner.

So, today, I would say that any child in a Title I school could be called a Title I kid as they are receiving the benefits of Title I--i.e. resources paid for by Title I.[/quote]

Please feel free to go back to whatever decade you belong in.  Calling kids "Title I kids" was, and is, a bad idea. [/quote]

And this OP is why people are fed up with the current school board even if they are not republican but just looking for their kids to get a good education. In the course of a day this triggered person has insulted several people through name calling, accused people of lying when they weren't, accused people of being racists when they themselves are, and refuses to have any logical conversation about a prominent issue in FCPS. It's too exhausting to continually deal with people like this so eventually many of the educated families who already have headaches with the traffic here move to smaller school systems where they have more of a voice.[/quote]

FCPS enjoys economies of scale, and is managed far more professionally, than most smaller school systems where certain people with political clout ride roughshod over others.  And not-so-veiled racism is indeed widespread on DCUM, with anti-Hispanic bias the most common (and least moderated).    [/quote]

+1. I’ve also noticed this. God forbid you are Hispanic or live in an apartment![/quote]

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