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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure why it has to be classist? DH went to schools in a very, very blue collar town where everyone sort of worked at the local plant. HHI there is about 30k-70k. They have excellent schools, AAP and AP courses. Teachers are super involved and there's rarely school disruptions.

Compare that to my kid's school in Loudoun County where the median HHI is 147k and there's 3.2% poverty. My kid's school is a mess because there's no differentiation. Some kids still don't know their letters in K and others are reading chapter books. [/quote]

I'll take a wild guess and say that the town where your DH went to school had a town-based school system rather than a large county-based one?[/quote]

I really don't know. The surrounding areas are very rural. [/quote]

PP here. I went to school in a very blue collar area too. Even if not town based, the overall population was fairly homogenous. There's less stress on the system when most students are on the same level, with outliers above and below the vast majority. That's not what we have in these large county-based systems. [/quote]

Wouldn't it make sense to have different classrooms then? So everyone can be taught to the best of their ability? Instead it seems like none of the 4 classrooms learns. You'd think it would be easier to have a full classroom of kids learning their letters so they could do it at the same time. [/quote]

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