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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feel bad for anyone hoping to actually discuss the Woodward boundary as this thread is completely off track.[/quote]

I don't think it's completely off track. Apparently, families living in expensive neighborhoods are upset about being potentially placed in a boundary for a school with a 30% FARMS rate. For those of us whose kids are zoned for schools with higher FARMS rates it seems a little ridiculous since 30% not very high at all. But they've gotten riled up by bad research that any person with any understanding of social science will recognize this research is not remotely conclusive. I can understand being upset if you made home buying decisions based on GreatSchools scores. It sucks that we have an education system that has failed so horrifically at educating Black, EML and low income kids that basically most schools that serves large percentages of these kids is going to have awful test scores. I would just offer that if you have paid a massive premium for a house zoned school with 74% proficiency rates in math for White students in order to avoid a school with 60% math proficiency rates for White students, maybe it's time you admit you made a mistake instead of fighting to ingrain economic and racial segregation even more for the next few decades.

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Your goal for your kid is mere proficiency? You don't want excellence?

Seems like the "rich" families want more than avg for their kids[/quote]

Where is the evidence that W schools provide more than proficiency? 1 out of 5 White kids at Whitman and 2 out of 5 Black kids don't even get "mere proficiency". The "more than avg" kids would be more than avg anywhere either by themselves or with supplementation they can get from any school boundary. Whitman instruction isn't as magical as some MCPS bureaucrats want you to believe. It's just a regular public school with large class sizes that serves a wealthy neighborhood. Your kid can be very successful in any MCPS school.[/quote]

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