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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid goes to a Title 1 inner city elementary school with 65% at risk kids. She is in 1st grade and reads chapter books like Mia Mayhem and Princess in Black fluently. She's in the top reading group at school but is not the top student -- there is at least one other kid who reads as well as she does but is a better speller. Both kids write well. I know there are kids in class still working on more basic phonics but the teacher has not had trouble differentiating to challenge the more advanced readers. In math they are working double and triple digit addition and subtraction as well as a host of math facts and techniques that will translate well to multiplication and division (skip counting, take from 10 methods, etc.). DD is middle of the pack in math, not in the top group but not in the bottom group. She thinks math is fun though which I view as a good reflection the teacher because it means she's learning all this without getting burned out. I think your school sucks, OP. Sorry. I would demand more.[/quote] I've lived OPs experience in elementary and found that it was the parents that just filled in the rest of academics and also heard about these magical title 1 schools with all this enrichment at the school especially in DC and wondered why then the kids in those schools were so far behind by high school. They were behind socially, academically, and physically overall so not sure what all that academic focus got them at the title one school in first. OP all I can find from experience is that a lot of people in 1st grade at school are focusing on friendships finding the right sort of kids and parents to hang out with rather than academics and they ramp up academics on their own in later elementary. As for the music, the better kids are in a different program. Same with sports. Certain families will seek out the most advanced after-school program for whatever special interest they and their child has.[/quote]
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