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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Essentially, the new great schools rankings are out and out tools that can be used to violate the fair housing act. It's essentially a way for realtors to identify schools with small black populations, it seems.

Crazy town.[/quote]

Go over to the real estate forum and tell me they're not already and haven't been doing that since forever. I'm not saying it's right, but it's not new and nobody cares. In fact, the people who draw the boundaries and make the decisions prefer it this way. [/quote]

But what is super interesting is that it isn't necessarily even explaining school quality demographically in a clear way.

Take Laurel Ridge Elementary in FCPS. It's now a 6 on great schools. But if you look at the non-free and reduced lunch performance, the school is a 9. https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/fairfax/531-Laurel-Ridge-Elementary-School/#Race_ethnicity*Discipline_and_attendance

What this says is that poor children struggle more on testing. And water is wet.

But what the rating system does is reward schools without poor children because it doesn't count populations of less than five percent. So, look at Navy Elementary (where FARMS is 4.5 percent). It's an 8. https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/fairfax/550-Navy-Elementary-School/#Low-income_students*Test_scores*Overview

It's main ding was that Hispanic students were over 5 percent of the population. So, they counted. Otherwise, the school would have been a 9.

It's messy data modeling at its best.
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I don't disagree, but this is just the latest way for people to be terrible and to segregate. And if you live in APS, like I do, it's being codified into every boundary decision. They are literally drawing the lines so that some schools will have NO disadvantaged students, those schools will be permanently under capacity, and the school cultures are such that SWD are fleeing to the less desirable schools where they won't be bullied or made to feel ashamed of their existence (or worse, they are being counselled to leave their own schools to find the resources they need to have an equitable education). So we're going to wind up with some schools that have all the ED/SWD/and racial/ethnic minorities and others that have NONE. And homeowners in the districts with NONE of all those type of students are overjoyed and prefer that potential homebuyers can more easily find the "best" schools. In summary, people are terrible, and get rewarded for being terrible. [/quote]

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