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[quote=Anonymous]Hello,

We have purchased a home in the following school cluster:

-Kingsford Elementary

-Kettering Middle School

-Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School

We were wondering if anyone have children that have attended or is currently attending a school within this cluster.  Please share your thoughts on why these schools are underperforming and any suggestions on how we can get involved to help this cluster become high performing.   We strongly believe in neighborhood schools and want to see all of the kids in this cluster succeed and be on equal footing as their peers throughout the country.

With that being said, we drove around this weekend and saw a gated community and a bunch of middle class homes.  However, we did not notice any apartment complexes.  Typically, where there are a lot of apartments in an area you have lower test scores because the families are more transient but that does not seem to be the case here.  From the outside looking in, the parents seems to be a part of  the middle class judging by the homes, upkeep of the communities, and the cars in their yards.  If their kids are the students who make up the student body of the schools in this cluster, why are the parents not complaining about the schools test scores.  Are more than 85% of the parents involved with the PTA at these schools?   Are the teachers able to do their jobs with the resources they have?  What about the principals?  What is going on here that is causing our schools to underperform within this cluster and cluster nearby?

Please share your suggestions on how we can get involved our little one will start pre-k in few years and we would like to be apart of the solution.    [/quote]

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