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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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So #1 at the poor school is also at least 14% worse than #1 at the low FARMS school by this dudes logic. I'm sure they're not as good[/quote]

I love how you think I'm a dude.

Also, where did you get the 14% number? You know these are different kids right? While there are many UMC families zoned for Einstein, the White kids there are not as wealthy as those zoned for Whitman. You take the same kid out of Whitman and put them in Einstein and they will do exactly the same (but may not be able to take MVC and then repeat it in college, horrible).[/quote]

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