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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] I am going to point out, here, that lots and lots and lots of parents send their children to schools you think of as failing schools. [/quote]

It is a free country.  They chose those schools.  We chose other schools.

No one is buying the myth that mixing up schools will improve the low SES achievement in any measurable way.  It is simply a class war, run by people who lost their voice in the national policy decisions with the change of administration.  That is why this social equity rezoning is only happening in MCPS.  It is not a national trend.  We just have this subpopulation of people who lost the ability to have a national voice, and have moved their efforts locally.  I fully anticipate that they are coaching their kids to ride this wave into the Ivies, too.   Hereditary politicians.[/quote]

You mean the FACT that it will improve schools as indicated by numerous articles.[/quote]

A myth.  The achievement gap won't budge in a measurable way, and neither will outcomes

It is not because parents are bad or kids are stupid.  It is because the only students who seem to do well in USA elem schools are the ones who come in knowing much of the material.  Teachers are excellent.  Curriculum is weak.

UMC parents educate their kids on evenings and weekends to compensate.  That is the entire trick to it, I think - at least where basic standartized testing is concerned.[/quote]

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