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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Please feel free to go back to whatever decade you belong in. Calling kids "Title I kids" was, and is, a bad idea.[/quote]

Please tell me what is offensive about using the term.  [b]They are getting benefits that other kids do not get. [/b] Just like magnet programs or AAP, it is an identifier.

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Depends on how you look at it.  The benefit is a meal, and the other kids aren't going hungry. [/quote]

No. The reference was to Title I.  If you think the only benefit the kids get is a meal, you are really uninformed.  Title I kids get smaller classes, more resources for instruction, and other educational benefits that are not given to kids in other schools.  If you mean free lunches by a meal, there are many kids in schools that are not identified as Title I who get free meals.  Calling kids "Title I kids" is not a slur.  Why do you think it is?[/quote]

You were using "Title I kids" to refer to students whose families are eligible for FARMS.  It's reductive, like calling people "illegals," and right out of the right-wing playbook.  You weren't using "Title I kids" to refer to all the kids at Title I schools, regardless of their family incomes.

I'm happy that this county and its elected School Board are, for the most part, kinder than this.

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