Here’s the stand-out quote:
“Nonetheless, there are parents who insist that their children attend the “best” school based on test scores. Asian students perform better than other races, and higher incomes perform better than lower. If you move your children to a school with high average family income and a high Asian population, will it affect your family income? Will it make your child more Asian? If not, it is not likely to affect your child’s own performance. The reason the school’s test scores are higher can mostly be explained by the higher percentage of students in groups that score higher. It is better to focus on encouraging your children to do their homework, and find schools that have the resources they need.”
Also recently discovered via a Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA) request was an email from the President of the Columbia Regional Office for The Howard Hughes Corporation to the Columbia Downtown Housing Corp (CDHC) that referenced this community member’s redistricting study and urged HCPSS to redistricting based on socio-economic terms.
It would be interesting to know what Christiana Mercer-Rigby, Opel Jones, Sabina Taj, Mavis Ellis, Jen Mallo, The Howard Hughes Corporation and any other CR-112 & FARM-based redistricting advocates think of this statement and the author’s overall conclusion.
