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Any parents have positive experiences if faced with a similarly poor performing school? How did you make it work? Did you find that the quality of education was pretty good? Do you feel like your child has been sufficiently challenged and able to reach his/her potential? I realize that test scores are only part of the picture.

My fear - and this is based on conversations I've had with parents from similar schools in the area - is that much of the classroom time is devoted to getting kids up to grade level and those kids who are proficient or relatively advanced are left to fend for themselves and underchallenged. Further, at our local school, there are a lot of ESOL kids which is fine, but again, I worry about classroom time spent to get these kids up to speed with language skills while kids who are English proficient are sidelined. 
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My kids attend a Title I school in VA. We have had a very positive experience. We feel the quality of education is very good, and that teachers make a huge effort to teach to kids of all levels. Maybe someone else can chime in here, but my understanding is that schools that have a Title I designation actually get additional resources in terms of personnel/teaching specialists/materials (such as books) to try to bring students up to speed. At our school, there are enough ESOL kids that they actually pull together a full class per grade for K/1/2 as they are getting those kids' English up to a level where they can participate more equally with their English-speaking peers. In the regular classes they group kids according to ability and always have extra personnel (reading or math specialists) available each day as they are going through their grouped work in reading and math. I do feel my kids have been challenged and are doing the best that they can do. In reading, my oldest is consistently exceeding benchmarks and is also meeting or exceeding in math.

Most of the parents in our neighborhood support the school and send their kids there, understanding that they probably do well with good teachers at the helm no matter where they attend. A few share your concerns and have made other choices, like magnets or private. But we have always had the means and the option to choose other schools for our kids and we have stuck with our neighborhood Title I school.[/quote]

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