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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Behavioral issues in the classroom, attrition in second and above, higher grading standards, and way more bells and whistles because of PTA funding that make academics more fun and interesting for the kids. Not better teachers, but a better environment to let teachers thrive.

Have been at DCPS schools with 50%, 20%, and <5% at-risk.[/quote]

I agree with all of these. I've been at a school that was around 45% at-risk and one that is more like 4 or 5%.

at the wealthier school: notably fewer screens and more hands-on project work. The threshold to get harder, more challenging work is higher (so the same number of kids are getting the challenging work in each school, but at the wealthier school their qualifying scores seem to be higher). Far fewer behavior issues, so the kids are all calmer (they aren't tense and bracing for violence, which happened at our old school in upper elementary). They have more time for science and social studies, and a completely different curriculum for ELA that is much more challenging and requires more detailed reading and writing and content knowledge, and an additional writing curriculum that didn't exist at the old school. [/quote]

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