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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm frustrated and annoyed when our friends choose private.  And, as individuals many of them do have well thought out reasons: they want a school that matches their religious/cultural tradition or they have a child with special needs.  [b]However, taken collectively all those choices mean that even in our relatively well off city, the schools are majority low-income kids.  And they are nice capable kids, but there isn't a block of wealthy and middle class parents pressuring the schools to do better and pressuring our city to spend more money-instead as a middle class parent (by education if not by wealth) I've encountered the "if you don't like it, get out" mentality from school officials.  [/b]

I wouldn't stop being your friend-I value having a diverse group of friends, and I wouldn't have any friends if I dropped people every time they do something I don't approve of, but, yeah, I'm disappointed.  [/quote]

Well yes, you are right and that's why we left.  As far as the school officials, if the middle class parents actually took more interest in school matters and then held school board members accountable to help all kids - not just low income kids - that would help too.[/quote]

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