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Right.  The PP said they would rather send their kid to [b]the school which produces poorer outcomes[/b] because it has more diversity, because they "ASSUME" the other school will not welcome their child with kindness.

First, that's pretty horrible that they just assume they won't welcome their child with kindness.  Which, is just wrong.  And also, unnecessarily denying their child opportunity to prove some stupid point.

I've been in this area of upper county MoCo, and souther FredCo for a LONG time.  The Damascus system is a sh%tshow, especially compared to the schools just a few miles away across the county line[/quote]

Please do explain. If you swapped the student populations at Baker MS and Windsor Knolls MS (Baker students instead attended Windsor Knolls, Windsor Knolls instead attended Baker), the test scores at the two schools would stay the same?[/quote]

Well, who knows.  [b]I would rather make my decisions based on actual data[/b], not academic hypothetical thought experiments.

To be honest, I don't have a stake in either school; neither of my children go there, but I have had experience with students from both schools.  But I do believe peer group is incredibly important.  And the risk of a bad peer group is way too high at Baker.  WK is a warm welcoming place, from my experience.  To write it off because you think its too white is  insulting[/quote]

Me too! Please include the actual data showing the correlation between demographic factors and standardized test scores in your decision-making.[/quote]

Right.  I agree with you.  But those same underserved demographic cohorts do better at WK than Baker.  So, your argument doesn't hold any water.

I'm not just talking about overall performance of the school, but of like-for-like student cohorts.

You're wrong, and you're bashing a school only because it has more white kids.  You feel superior, but you're not[/quote]

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