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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, not teaching.

And every MCPS high school has a cohort of motivated, academically-minded students.

So that leaves...?[/quote]

People who want to convince you this matters to prop up their real estate values.[/quote]

[b]I have never met anyone trying to prop up their real estate by trumpeting the test scores of any particular school.[/b] But over the years I've read posts by the same old poster making this complaint.

Unfortunately this is where DCUM splits off from reality. OP you need to take all this extra baggage with a pinch of salt or better still just ignore it. [/quote]

Of course not. What they say is "This is a good school"/"That is a bad school". What they also say is, "MCPS must not change reassign my house from [School With Higher Average Standardized Test Scores (And Fewer Poor Kids)] to [School with Lower Average Standardized Test Scores (And More Poor Kids)] because that will be bad for my property values!" And yes, people do say that, in person, at public meetings, in real life. I know because I have been at public meetings where people said that.[/quote]

Those are not the same things. [b]People aren’t pumping up a school in an Internet forum to try to raise their property values[/b]. That’s absurd.

And of course people will be upset about losing $100k or more. It’s ridiculous to think they wouldn’t. I’m guessing you would care too. [/quote]

I agree it is ludicrous, and yet the poster who raised this is accusing posters of doing exactly that. What is more ludicrous is that anyone would think that a school's good standardized test scores are only good for that real estate value. Hello? [/quote]

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