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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone explain why schools with more colored or poor students are labeled low quality?  Is the quality measured by test score? Does MCPS assign less qualified teachers the these schools?  Does MCPS assign ineffective principles and admins to magnge the schools?  Do the low quality schools have worse facilities?  [/quote]

[b]A lot of factors are taken into consideration.[/b]  Graduation rate, test scores, experience of teachers, etc.  The problem is that experienced and good teachers are all at the "good" schools...mainly because they would never take a job at the other schools.

I think the biggest problem is absenteeism.  The rate at those schools are ridiculously high...hence the low graduation rate and high dropout rate.[/quote]

On DCUM? Nah. "Bad school" = "school with lots of poor/black/Hispanic kids"[/quote]

Sadly, it is true that the "bad schools" have mostly poor people of color.  Many of these same kids come from families that do not support them at the same level as families in other school districts.  This is the biggest problem...it starts in the home.  Absenteeism is ridiculously high at these schools...why aren't the parents making these kids go to school?[/quote]
Many low income parents care about their children, but they may work two jobs, and/or rely on their HS aged kids for things like childcare and bringing in extra income. Plus, if the parents aren't home much because they have to work two jobs, it's kinda hard for them to be involved in their kids' schooling.

I know it's hard for most DCUMers to comprehend, but growing up low income is hard. Kids largely have to raise themselves if they have no other family around.

I grew up lower income to immigrant, non English speaking parents who worked a lot.  My siblings and I pretty much raised ourselves. Yes, we all graduated HS, and some of us went off to college, but my one sibling barely graduated HS (almost flunked out). This sibling has an undiagnosed learning disability that my parents probably knew nothing about, and it's not like the teachers back then helped, either.  The sibling was just seen as a "bad" student.

Have you ever read about how expensive it was to be poor?  Walk a mile in their shoes, then come back and post.[/quote]

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