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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]FARMS rates are what MCPS will look at when deciding the boundaries[/b].  They don't care whether you are middle class or upper. They care about the number of poverty level students which is determined by the FARMS rate.  That population needs the most financial and personnel resources because they have the highest ESOL needs and academic failure rates.
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Are you familiar with the boundary study process? MCPS is not going to make this decision in isolation, all by itself. There will be community meetings and tons of PowerPoints with demographic data and committee recommendations based on committee criteria and...

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/planning/boundary.aspx[/quote]

lol!  I hope the person who works on the Powerpoints doesn't invest much effort.  It will all boil down to distributing the hot potato of FARMS students.  Somerset and Westbrook will fight hard to keep their lily white student bodies while paying lip service to "diversity".[/quote]

I think it is funny when people use "Lilly white" or "snow flake" as derogatory terms. As if white people could be made to fell bad about being born into the ruling/ownership class of the world. The terms reek of an inferiority complex.[/quote]

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