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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone explain why schools with more colored or poor students are labeled low quality?  Is the quality measured by test score? Does MCPS assign less qualified teachers the these schools?  Does MCPS assign ineffective principles and admins to magnge the schools?  Do the low quality schools have worse facilities?  [/quote]

[b]A lot of factors are taken into consideration.[/b]  Graduation rate, test scores, experience of teachers, etc.  The problem is that experienced and good teachers are all at the "good" schools...mainly because they would never take a job at the other schools.

I think the biggest problem is absenteeism.  The rate at those schools are ridiculously high...hence the low graduation rate and high dropout rate.[/quote]

On DCUM? Nah. "Bad school" = "school with lots of poor/black/Hispanic kids"[/quote]

Sadly, [b]it is true that the "bad schools" have mostly poor people of color.[/b]  Many of these same kids come from families that do not support them at the same level as families in other school districts.  This is the biggest problem...it starts in the home.  Absenteeism is ridiculously high at these schools...[b]why aren't the parents making these kids go to school?[/b][/quote]

Yes, of course it's true - because it's tautological. That's the definition for DCUM. For DCUM, "school quality" doesn't refer to the facilities or the course offerings or the administration or the teachers or anything that actually makes up the school.  It refers to the race/ethnicity/household income of the students who attend the school.[/quote]

You didn't answer the question..."Why aren't the parents making these kids go to school?[/quote]

We know the answers. Some families are dysfunctional - and that's across the board.  I've worked with kids on IIS who have spent the BULK of their school career in that program. You are not marked absent on IIS b/c you're still being serviced through the school system.  You're simply not present at your local school. These are kids with means!  So sometimes it's hard to make a blanket statement about attendance.

IIS aside, kids living in poverty are often looking after younger siblings, as their parents are working.  So there are no adults around for much of the day. Many work to support the HH, too.  Some miss days to accompany parents to appointments, as they need conversations to be translated.

Flipping around boundaries WILL NOT solve these issues - issues that - sadly - often become the teachers' problems, as the question asked is this: "What have YOU done to ensure Student X passes?"  passing the buck, shifting the blame - doing whatever is possible to cover the "system's" a**

This is why teachers leave.  So you can shift boundaries around all you like, but this movement will NOT address the root causes.  It's simply another band aid approach that will fail. [/quote]

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