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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 215 pages of handwringing, I don't believe anyone has admitted to what I'm about to admit: I emphatically DO believe my special snowflake's education will be nearly "ruined" if he was to attend a school that is comprised of a few of his type and 70, 85% of the type of kids I encounter while at appointments in some parts of the District. Yes, I do. It would be one gigantic squandered opportunity for him and his considerable potential. I do believe him to have above-average capabilities at this time. I admit that too. Is he more Special than a destitute kid who eats Cheetos and purple drank for breakfast? Nope. Maybe he's even less Snowflakey. But I do know this: it's not DS role to sacrifice his potential to make a political point. Not his job to sit next to a failing kid so that kid hopefully gets some of DS's good student factors by osmosis or something.[/quote] How many here have experienced being a good student surrounded by poor students? I have. It made me a little lonely, perhaps, but did not diminish my educational achievement. I believe too many of us with success in our own lives and high hopes for our own kids believe that we have to have the best for our kid to reach his or her best. And many of us are right now trying to make an urban life after having lived a homogeneous suburban life, so we have little to go by. Take a deep breath, everyone. In most of the situations we are placing our children in, they will have opportunties to reach their full potential. We do not need to live the Petrilli hypocrisy in order to have our children succeed in life.[/quote]
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