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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At some point there needs to be a concerted effort to have redfin drop these terrible ratings. Unless and until that happens they have impact and very negative impacts across the board (including increasing self segregation).[/quote]

But that's the only information keeping families from making disastrous decisions in places like Alexandria where there are terrible schools in rich neighborhoods. There is no other way to determine if you are buying in a public school district that will actually educate your child.[/quote]

This process just results in fewer acceptable schools. Clearly people are already avoiding the [b]low rated schools,[/b] but other people avoid middle rated schools. These middle rated schools then start to slip until they are low rated .it is a self fulfilling cycle.[/quote]

You're defining "low rated schools" as schools with a GS score of 4 or lower (or 5 or lower or 3 or lower).  As GS changes their scoring system to reduce the number of low scoring schools and incrase the number of middle rated schools, the self-segregation that has been increasing over the past two decades, fueled almost entirely by GS ratings, will decrease.

For those who are too young to remember, self-segregation of neighborhoods and schools was less of an issue in the golden age of the US, the late 80s and 90s, when things were improving for everyone, not just for the upper class.  [/quote]

Some define low as less than 5, but others will not tolerate anything less than a 7, others nothing less than a 9.

I think even if the Great School scores were to even out more, people still have tools available to figure out how to self segregate. Kind of sad really. FCPS was much more balanced in the 80s.[/quote]

This. What they should do is tier the schools and leave it as that. Otherwise it just leads to self segregation[/quote]

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