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[quote=Anonymous]In my HRPCS, what I have seen is not consistent with the rich kids being given better teachers and better grades, while poor kids are thrown out with "lost" residency papers if they don't toe the line.

In fact, in four years, my DC has been classmates with everyone in his grade level. He's received his fair share of lower marks, and I agreed that in those areas he was actually struggling. As for marginalizing lower income families, the opposite is true: Any time -- EVERY time -- something is suggested that will cost money, or require being somewhere, or anything else that might impact a lower-income family differently, it is brought up, and people try to figure out ways to be inclusive.

Maybe other HRPCS are different, but it sounds more like OP is one of those crazy people who like to complain but who never seem to actually get involved in solving anything beyond the complaining.

As for the theory that HRPCS provide sub-par instruction to most, propped up only by the high SES parents' kids and their tutors: Why on Earth would the high-SES parents want to stay at such a school, where they have to pay through thousands of dollars of donations to get the supposedly "good" teacher, who isn't going to teach their children, but instead give them high marks based on the parents' donations, so the parents have to hire outside tutors, who DO teach the children, but then the school takes credit for that instruction and the high test scores it brings? Wouldn't they just go private, or at a minimum go public with the tutors, which at least saves them the donations?[/quote]

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