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Anonymous wrote:Are you Indian OP??

My guess is Chinese and a member of this very right wing anti-white and anti other minority groups organization - Asian American for Education Coalition - http://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/home/. Note how they repeatedly refer to their children as “hard working” as though white children cannot be hardworking or like other minority children cannot be hardworking. White families also value education - we just want our children to be well rounded individuals involved in other activities. Really disheartening.

Why do you object other people say their kids work hard? Do you have a job? Are you hardly working everyday?

The implication is that the other white, black and brown children are not working hard. It seems odd to me that an immigrant population would insult the intelligence and work ethic of the citizens of the country they now live in and a country that was largely built by those citizens and their ancestors, and to speak honestly, slaves. And this is as a white parent who grew up in a fairly diverse area and school. On the site is a letter in which the organization is attacking MCPS for not letting more Asians in CES and magnet school programs as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the high FARMS schools in this area are also home schools for very well educated, high income parents. Silver Spring is home to many of the NIH, FDA scientists, college professors, and fed attorneys etc. These jobs even with two parents working pay well but maybe not well enough for a 1.2 million dollar home. As long as your kid has a cohort of high performers, which many in the DCC do, it's not that big of a deal that there are kids in other tracks in the school that have lower scores are who are not college bound. These are not the kids in the AP classes etc.

shh don't tell the W folks that. They will get mad that they paid twice as much for a house in a higher performing school pyramid

This is the kind of neighborhood we are in, not in the DCC but elsewhere in ganglandia. My neighbors are physicists, biomed lab workers, federal law enforcement. When we bought in, we were two senior feds. Our income has since doubled (one of us went private sector) and although we could afford a nice house in a w area, we like it here and don't want to leave. Our kids are challenged in school and we have tutoring and other enrichment to fill in the gaps. I'm fine with the farms kids- they give my kids a perspective they wouldn't otherwise have, and I don't have the issues I read about on here with social pressure about clothing brands, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

I'm sorry, where in the Declaration of Independence does it say you have an inalienable right to keep your child with a "higher performing cohort"?

you don't. These are PUBLIC schools - you don't get to say who is in and who is out. Sorry.

Yes, it is a public school system and directed by public servants. MC residents have the fully right to question MCPS on their motive, the consequences of their proposal, the cost of their proposal and the results of their proposal. Cc2.0 wasted 9 years of students’ life in MCPS. We haven't seen a single person takes responsibility for their failure. If MCPS board members promise that they personally will pay a million dollars each to MCPS if their achievement gap doesnt close after their diversity plan, I will support the redistriction.

You have the right to call them all a pack of sugar-frosted pickles if you want.

The fact is that the members of the Board of Education are duly elected to make these decisions. If you want to make these decisions, then you should run for a seat on on the Board of Education - and win.

They can make decision but citizens can ask question and disagree their decision.

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Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

If that’s what you want then own it. Some of us want our kids to be around a cohort that reflects the real world, and recognize that low test scores aren’t contagious.

Given how much the SAT reflects race rather than potential, choosing a high school based on average SAT scores is really not that different from choosing based on skin color. But you do you.

Actually I am with the PP. I like that my kid went to a school with other kids who worked hard. Now he is in a selective university in the top 20 USNWR where his classmates are all high performers, valedictorians, etc. I like that he is now surrounded by/competing with kids who are smarter than him. I always want him to reach higher, not be in an environment where the bar is set super low.

You really actually think that white test scores or middle class test scores are a reflection of the fact that those kids work harder?

classic case once again your side is making it about race. We care about results period and yes being in a classroom full of kids who work hard/take school seriously is an environment most parents want.

How do you establish that the classroom is full of kids who work hard? And what do you do if, for example, one or two kids who like to take it easy somehow make it into the classroom under false pretenses?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

If that’s what you want then own it. Some of us want our kids to be around a cohort that reflects the real world, and recognize that low test scores aren’t contagious.

Given how much the SAT reflects race rather than potential, choosing a high school based on average SAT scores is really not that different from choosing based on skin color. But you do you.

Actually I am with the PP. I like that my kid went to a school with other kids who worked hard. Now he is in a selective university in the top 20 USNWR where his classmates are all high performers, valedictorians, etc. I like that he is now surrounded by/competing with kids who are smarter than him. I always want him to reach higher, not be in an environment where the bar is set super low.

You really actually think that white test scores or middle class test scores are a reflection of the fact that those kids work harder?

classic case once again your side is making it about race. We care about results period and yes being in a classroom full of kids who work hard/take school seriously is an environment most parents want.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

If that’s what you want then own it. Some of us want our kids to be around a cohort that reflects the real world, and recognize that low test scores aren’t contagious.

Given how much the SAT reflects race rather than potential, choosing a high school based on average SAT scores is really not that different from choosing based on skin color. But you do you.

Actually I am with the PP. I like that my kid went to a school with other kids who worked hard. Now he is in a selective university in the top 20 USNWR where his classmates are all high performers, valedictorians, etc. I like that he is now surrounded by/competing with kids who are smarter than him. I always want him to reach higher, not be in an environment where the bar is set super low.

You really actually think that white test scores or middle class test scores are a reflection of the fact that those kids work harder?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

I'm sorry, where in the Declaration of Independence does it say you have an inalienable right to keep your child with a "higher performing cohort"?

you don't. These are PUBLIC schools - you don't get to say who is in and who is out. Sorry.

Yes, it is a public school system and directed by public servants. MC residents have the fully right to question MCPS on their motive, the consequences of their proposal, the cost of their proposal and the results of their proposal. Cc2.0 wasted 9 years of students’ life in MCPS. We haven't seen a single person takes responsibility for their failure. If MCPS board members promise that they personally will pay a million dollars each to MCPS if their achievement gap doesnt close after their diversity plan, I will support the redistriction.

You have the right to call them all a pack of sugar-frosted pickles if you want.

The fact is that the members of the Board of Education are duly elected to make these decisions. If you want to make these decisions, then you should run for a seat on on the Board of Education - and win.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

I'm sorry, where in the Declaration of Independence does it say you have an inalienable right to keep your child with a "higher performing cohort"?

you don't. These are PUBLIC schools - you don't get to say who is in and who is out. Sorry.

Yes, it is a public school system and directed by public servants. MC residents have the fully right to question MCPS on their motive, the consequences of their proposal, the cost of their proposal and the results of their proposal. Cc2.0 wasted 9 years of students’ life in MCPS. We haven't seen a single person takes responsibility for their failure. If MCPS board members promise that they personally will pay a million dollars each to MCPS if their achievement gap doesnt close after their diversity plan, I will support the redistriction.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

I'm sorry, where in the Declaration of Independence does it say you have an inalienable right to keep your child with a "higher performing cohort"?

you don't. These are PUBLIC schools - you don't get to say who is in and who is out. Sorry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

If that’s what you want then own it. Some of us want our kids to be around a cohort that reflects the real world, and recognize that low test scores aren’t contagious.

Given how much the SAT reflects race rather than potential, choosing a high school based on average SAT scores is really not that different from choosing based on skin color. But you do you.

Actually I am with the PP. I like that my kid went to a school with other kids who worked hard. Now he is in a selective university in the top 20 USNWR where his classmates are all high performers, valedictorians, etc. I like that he is now surrounded by/competing with kids who are smarter than him. I always want him to reach higher, not be in an environment where the bar is set super low.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

If that’s what you want then own it. Some of us want our kids to be around a cohort that reflects the real world, and recognize that low test scores aren’t contagious.

Given how much the SAT reflects race rather than potential, choosing a high school based on average SAT scores is really not that different from choosing based on skin color. But you do you.

Not sure if this is the case with OP, but I have interacted with parents who are insecure about what kind of educational support they can provide, and really feel like they need to give their kids every possible advantage to make up for this deficiency. They think if the school has a lot of high performers, it will motivate their children to compete and work harder. Some do thrive in a pressure cooker type environment, some do not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest, OP.

When your kid applies to college, they use their own, individual SAT score. They don't apply to college with their high school's average SAT score.

Ok really slowly so you can understand

Would you rather have your kid grow up and be around kids who score 900 on SATs or 1400 on SATs get it

It's about the environment, you want an environment with a higher performing cohort

If that’s what you want then own it. Some of us want our kids to be around a cohort that reflects the real world, and recognize that low test scores aren’t contagious.

Given how much the SAT reflects race rather than potential, choosing a high school based on average SAT scores is really not that different from choosing based on skin color. But you do you.

SS and Takoma Park are great place to live. DCC high schools have the best magnet prpgrams for kids from MC and UMC to choose. Many county leaders are from SS and TP area. Please enjoy your privileges and leave the rest county alone.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/406-Hinsdale-Ln-20901/home/10958192


https://www.redfin.com/MD/Rockville/8513-Wilkesboro-Ln-20854/home/10505592

housing price is not that much different in terms size and lot


and the school rating is not that much different either in terms or rating

Anonymous wrote:Many of the high FARMS schools in this area are also home schools for very well educated, high income parents. Silver Spring is home to many of the NIH, FDA scientists, college professors, and fed attorneys etc. These jobs even with two parents working pay well but maybe not well enough for a 1.2 million dollar home. As long as your kid has a cohort of high performers, which many in the DCC do, it's not that big of a deal that there are kids in other tracks in the school that have lower scores are who are not college bound. These are not the kids in the AP classes etc.

shh don't tell the W folks that. They will get mad that they paid twice as much for a house in a higher performing school pyramid