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Why do Asians make 30% more than whites when America put the Japanese in internment camps, wouldn’t even let Chinese people buy property after they were treated horribly in the 19th and early 20th Century? If it’s such a racist system why was it set up so that white people are doing so poorly compared to Asians? Sounds like a pretty poorly planned racist system.

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OK, so would you like to deliberately and willingly increasing the chance of having "bad apples" around your kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Having more low performing kids at your school doesn’t hurt your kid. The biggest predictors of educational achievement are household income and the mother’s education level. Those won’t change for your family regardless of who your kids go to school with.

What bring more low income/performing kids into a wealthier school does, though, is expose those kids to more resources, and a parent body that has both the knowledge and opportunity to advocate for more resources for that particular school.

Yeah sure. For example, getting paired in a project with someone who simply does not study at all, that does not hurt your kid. It may be annoying but that is fine. The teachers and other students know how these kids do things so it is not going to affect your kid's grade. Ask your kids if they would enjoy that.

Again, low income is fine. Many low income kids do fine because they work hard - they may get achieve even more if provided the opportunities but even without those, they can do fine. I would think providing opportunities to them would be useful

But "low performing" kids? you certainly have more bad apples in that group.

Sure, that sucks. My kids have had to deal with it. That's life. Hasn't that happened to you at work? In college? Do you honestly think that sh1t like this doesn't happen in higher performing schools? My kid went to an HGC, and this happened to DC there, too. Didn't hurt my kid. In fact, it taught my kid to be more resilient. I don't subscribe to the "lawnmower", "snowplow" parent where I think it's my job to remove every road block from my kids' successes.

Also, in HS, if your kid is high performing, your kid will be separated from the riff raff if your kid takes AP/honors courses. No worries there.

Of course it does too.

But who would like to deliberately and willingly increase the chance of that happening?

Because your kids learn from it too. And they won’t be able to slack themselves. They will have to innovate, be creative, be a problem solver, and work hard. All good things.

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Why do Asians make 30% more than whites when America put the Japanese in internment camps, wouldn’t even let Chinese people buy property after they were treated horribly in the 19th and early 20th Century? If it’s such a racist system why was it set up so that white people are doing so poorly compared to Asians? Sounds like a pretty poorly planned racist system.

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Anonymous wrote:Having more low performing kids at your school doesn’t hurt your kid. The biggest predictors of educational achievement are household income and the mother’s education level. Those won’t change for your family regardless of who your kids go to school with.

What bring more low income/performing kids into a wealthier school does, though, is expose those kids to more resources, and a parent body that has both the knowledge and opportunity to advocate for more resources for that particular school.

Yeah sure. For example, getting paired in a project with someone who simply does not study at all, that does not hurt your kid. It may be annoying but that is fine. The teachers and other students know how these kids do things so it is not going to affect your kid's grade. Ask your kids if they would enjoy that.

Again, low income is fine. Many low income kids do fine because they work hard - they may get achieve even more if provided the opportunities but even without those, they can do fine. I would think providing opportunities to them would be useful

But "low performing" kids? you certainly have more bad apples in that group.

Please. There are always slackers in team projects. Part of what your kid will learn is how to cope. Because that’s real life. If you shield them from real life in the real world, you are the one doing your kid a disservice. Most MCPS kids WANT more diversity. Thank goodness the kids are not as fearful as the parents.

I hope you are not saying that based on handpicked students at testimony who were pretty much related to small group of MCCPTA leadership having their own agenda.

Exactly. Those kids who testified were brainwashed and coached.

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Anonymous wrote:People from Ghana and Nigeria are making more on average per household than whites as of 2016. They must have missed the “racist system” memo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

They are immigrants, who likely had resources in their home countries, unlike African Americans who have systematically been denied the opportunity to accumulate wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:Having more low performing kids at your school doesn’t hurt your kid. The biggest predictors of educational achievement are household income and the mother’s education level. Those won’t change for your family regardless of who your kids go to school with.

What bring more low income/performing kids into a wealthier school does, though, is expose those kids to more resources, and a parent body that has both the knowledge and opportunity to advocate for more resources for that particular school.

Yeah sure. For example, getting paired in a project with someone who simply does not study at all, that does not hurt your kid. It may be annoying but that is fine. The teachers and other students know how these kids do things so it is not going to affect your kid's grade. Ask your kids if they would enjoy that.

Again, low income is fine. Many low income kids do fine because they work hard - they may get achieve even more if provided the opportunities but even without those, they can do fine. I would think providing opportunities to them would be useful

But "low performing" kids? you certainly have more bad apples in that group.

Please. There are always slackers in team projects. Part of what your kid will learn is how to cope. Because that’s real life. If you shield them from real life in the real world, you are the one doing your kid a disservice. Most MCPS kids WANT more diversity. Thank goodness the kids are not as fearful as the parents.

I hope you are not saying that based on handpicked students at testimony who were pretty much related to small group of MCCPTA leadership having their own agenda.

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1. scores - I asked this before. How is being around a few more lower performing kids going to make your kids dumber? If the boundaries are changed, don't you think the FARMs rate and performance of the student body will change accordingly? You're thinking that only your child will be going to the new school surrounded by dumber kids. Where's the logic here?

2. reputation - what is the rep based on? First hand knowldedge? Gossip? GS scores? That goes back to #1 above.

For example, many W parents think that non W schools are terrible because they have "low" test scores, and so those schools have a terrible reputation amongst those parents, yet, many parents like those in the QO cluster will say that's not true. QO is a great school. Right? Example of reputation not based on first hand knowledge but on test scores.