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This I am convinced that the studies with the greatest gains stem from kids going from schools with the greatest disparity in resources. [b]Then people use that to justify mixing and matching comparable schools in the same district thinking that poor kids will succeed by absorbing something from middle class kids for their own social desires.[/b] What they really do is come off as just trying to punish people who they are jealous of. Taking a bunch of kids from public housing and sending them to school with middle class kids just hides their mediocrity by slipping it in to the stronger metrics all while exposing those families to that brand of obscenity that they worked so hard to avoid.[/quote]

No, this is dead wrong.  Exactly the phenomenon that you mention ("poor kids absorbing something from middle class kids") has been EXPLICITLY studied over and over and over again, and it's been shown to be absolutely the case and that having high achieving peers is an absolute benefit to lower income students.  And having higher achieving peers absolutely improves low income kids' outcomes.  Also, this is often cited as a strength of school systems in some of the the many countries where test outcomes are better than in the US -- the explicit idea that's taught to kids that they should encourage success of the group.

The "punish", "jealous", "hides their mediocrity" and "obscenity" stuff is just unhinged ranting, so I won't bother to address that.[/quote]

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