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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to work in a Title One school (some years we were Title One and some were not so we were on the cusp from year to year).  We did get extra personnel to help out which was great.  We had support with the lowest readers who were pulled out everyday.  We even had people doing Reading Recovery.  I would say that the priorities and expectations were much different than the school I send my child to.  The parents were mostly uneducated and didn't place much emphasis on education.  This impacted the students' attitudes esp in the intermediate grades.  Homework and studying for tests were not priorities.  Many parents just wanted someone to watch their kids during the day.  It was no big deal to skip homework when it interfered with sports and other fun activities.  Even the parents were annoyed that homework (which was quite minimal) interfered with these other activities.  Many were on public assistance and spend the funds on expensive shoes, clothing, etc for the kids while saying that they didn't have any money for school supplies.  College was not on the radar for most of the kids there.  I probably would look very closely at a Title One school before sending my child there.  I would be fine with a school with a high percentage of ESOL students whose parents truly valued a good education as opposed to a school where parents see school as free babysitting.[/quote]

I have worked at three different schools- two Title One and one middle-class/low FARMS school. I would never send my child to a Title One school. Plenty of kids at the title one school were wonderful, sweet kids who had parents who cared deeply for them. However, a large percentage of the students were exposed to violence/inappropriate adult content at home or were neglected. As a result many of the students at the title one schools seemed much older/less innocent than the low-FARMS school. Often times this led to behavior problems in the classroom which affected the students who were trying to learn. Subtle difference were apparent in the lower grades, but by upper elementary the difference was really apparent. I felt sorry for the high achieving FARM students at the Title one schools because they seemed to wither because they weren't being pushed. They were high academically when compared to their classmates, but not compared to students at middle class schools. When an ESOL teacher comes in to teach the lesson to the whole class, the student who is really advanced verbally does not get anything out of it. The student wastes an hour where they could have been exposed to higher level vocabulary.  Most of the money in extra resources went to students who were ESOL or below grade level. [/quote]

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