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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have now spent a couple hours plotting GS data points on a graph.  According to what I have so far:

1-there is a direct inverse relationship between the GS score and the percentage of black and hispanic students at the school.
2-there is a direct correlation between the percentage of white and asian students (added together) and the GS score.
3-there is a direct inverse relationship between a school's diversity and the GS score - in other words, schools with a student body that has large numbers of every racial group, as opposed to being dominated by just a few, are actually penalized in the GS scoring system.
4-having a less diverse body raises the GS score.  This seems to be true even if the school is 80% of a traditionally lower-performing minority, as it is the diversity itself that lowers the school's score (since the school is penalized for having gaps between races).

I don't have every school in Fairfax County on there, of course, but I have quite a few and it seems high GS scores indicate not only lack of low-income students, but also ensure lack of racial diversity.  Barring AAP centers, which are artificially balanced, no school with a 9 has any significant percentage of black or hispanic students.[/quote]

I think what they are doing is comparing minorities scores to average scores of the entire population vs. minority scores vs. state average scores of minorities in the state. In other words, comparing the hispanics to the total population (which is mostly white/asian/mixed) vs. Hispanics here vs Hispanics of the state. (this is example terminology only, please don't get offended.)

The problem with this is that there is CLEARLY a bias because Hispanics in Burke schools are doing better than the state average of Hispanics, but this is compared to a generic average and not weighted appropriately for the fact that they are doing better than the state average for the race in question. For example, Fairview, which has 10% hispanic, has a 95% proficiency in math, which is well above the 72% proficiency, should have a higher score but its not because of the bias above.

I would get into it with more detail and would love access to the PP's graphs, so we can email the following companies: Redfin, Zillow, basically any real estate APP to voice our concerns. This is racial profiling of schools. The Fair Housing act of 1968 comes to mind here.

[b]Start emailing your mom friends and emailing Justin Fairfax. We have some work to do.[/quote][/b]

And while you're rallying the troops to stop a biased scoring system, perhaps you should also report to the NAACP and LULAC and whoever else you can think of that APS is not only resegregating its schools, but it is also creating boundaries that leave the wealthiest and least densely populated area schools under capacity (permanently), and the area schools nearest to where all the multifamily housing is built, including committed affordable housing, will be permanently over capacity. Inequity all around. A rigged scoring system that will likely reward such practices while not improving things for the students who have the fewest choices or advantages is just the icing on this racist cake. [/quote]

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