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Where's the data to support your theory?  There are Section 8 kids that go to Winston Churchill High School.  Does the data show that they do better than Section 8 students elsewhere in the county?  Nope.[/quote]

And you know this how, exactly? You've looked at their test scores? You've done a study?

Not to mention the numbers of those "Section 8" kidsl.  2012-2013 enrollment at Churchill was 2,092. The FARMS rate was less than or equal to 5%. Let's be generous and set it at 5%. That means that there were, at most, 104 kids on FARMS in the whole school. Now let's further assume that it was 5% for each grade. So that's maybe 29 9th graders, 24 10th graders, 27 11th graders, and 26 12th graders. But sure, let's generalize from what you think you know about those 24-29 kids per grade.

And -- since the Washington Post opinion piece is also about housing segregation -- I assume that the "Section 8" kids at Churchill you're talking about are from Scotland, which is a black community that has been there since the Civil War. Their grandparents received a segregated education right here in Montgomery County. And apparently the parents of Churchill HS students just purely cannot stand it that their kids are zoned to the same high school as 100 or so poor black kids whose families have lived in the area for 150 years longer than they have.

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The FARMS kids have access to the same teachers, the same classes, and the same at school resources at Churchill.  How many of these kids make it into the competitive track at the school including AP and Honors classes? BTW - not all of these kids are African American or Hispanic.  To say so is racist.  I also never said I had an issue with anyone attending Churchill.  I think the school has an overinflated reputation.  Moving kids in or out will not solve the problems in MCPS. Just more gas and pollution.[/quote]

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