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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Of course the weaker students were staying and of course the SES goes down in the HS when parents who can pull their kids do just because they can.  If you were unsatisfied with the education or found the differentiation inadequate, then pull your DC, absolutely, but not because the SES goes down or because the school won't stroke your ego by calling you DC's class "honors".[/quote]

The pp who left after 8th. I no longer believe in in-class middle school differentiation as the solution in the face of the enormous DC achievement gap between most of the high-SES kids and most of the low-SES kids.  In my little New England town, almost everybody was middle-class, yet I was bored out of my skull at a pretty good middle school.  Latin MS was better for my kid, but no amount of fine teaching, or small classes, could change the fact that the teachers simply must focus on bringing up the bottom due to NCLB strictures, and the bottom was pretty darn low, in class with my kid!

My ego doesn't need stroking, but my fairly brilliant but lazy kid does need pushing and Latin's teachers were a little too busy with the stragglers to do that.  She's doing better, particularly socially, at her parochial school. DC middle schools are all the same, they don't ability group other than for math (and not much at Latin).  If your kid is advanced (in whatever subject), they aren't going to have to put nose to the grindstone.  This is the main reason middle-class families leave en masse, yet it's hardly discussed.  We didn't want her in a HS that was at least 80% AA and mostly low-SES.  Sorry if we aren't PC enough for those here.  You'll all say, good riddance, but my very nice kid is probably heading to a better Ivy than mine (now that she has to buckle down).

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