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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The charts posted previously don't lie.  In the universe of public education, SES is destiny.  In light of that reality, all public schools perform more or less the same.

On the other hand, taking your children out of the public-school matrix can make a difference.  My children are enrolled in a Catholic parochial school in PG County that is majority-minority and moderate income (low by Washington standards).  The kids there average around the 70th percentile on national standardized tests.  If you put the same population in any MCPS school, they'd be at about the 50th percentile.  From what I've heard from school administrators, these are typical results for the Archdiocesan schools in lower-income, minority communities.

This is why the most highly educated demographic in America, if you cross-tabulate by race and religion, is black Catholics, and why in the Washington metro area, black Catholics, who make up 10% of the African American population, are 50% of the affluent African American population.

Different curriculum, different culture, different results.[/quote]

Also kudos to the Catholic schools in DC who serve the children in their community. (Mostly with a free education)[/quote]

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