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It's all about bringing up the bottom. We were the recipients of boundary change that tanked our school in less than five years. The pressure is on to get kids to pass the SOLs. Any type of reading incentives or homework is pretty much shunned. If it can't be accomplished during the school day, forget it because the kids who have involved parents will get ahead. If everybody can't do it, then nobody can. I asked about giving AAP curriculum like literary circle and word study to all and was told most Gen ed kids in our school were not ready. If your kid misses the cut off they're missing out. Expectations are lower when you have high poverty. School board needs to stop concentrating poverty in areas in the eastern and western parts of the county. The school that we received the poverty from had been Title 1 and now has 15% poverty. Why couldn't neighborhoods been split among a few schools?[/quote]

I worked in a title 1 school, and I agree with part of what you say - that it's all about bringing the bottom up, and we pretty much ignored the middle.  However, things like Word Study should be there, especially for the lowest students.  That's just a good practice.  I think the literacy circles are kind of out these days in general.  I would seriously question the instructional competence of any school or teachers not using Word Study.

I also agree that it's not fair the way low-income kids are concentrated in one school.  In my neighborhood, we are that school - 30% ESOL, 30% free and reduced, and all the schools around us are 1%.  And if you look at the boundary you can see that the lowest income areas are actually closer to other elementary schools, but the boundaries have been drawn so that they are concentrated only in our school.  Something is fishy with that.

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30% is easy. We are now at 60% poverty after the boundary change.[/quote]

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