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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All this talk about lower SES kids who are struggling, but what about higher SES kids who struggle or are bad influences? They do exist and are even in the W schools! Horror!  People are up in arms about the prospect of potential boundary changes, but the kinds of kids you're worried about being in school with your kids are ALREADY IN THEIR SCHOOL and they are not the low income kids you're thinking about. Do you think there are no drugs, crimes or fights in W schools? I went to a W school and was exposed to all of that, but chose to stay away from that path. It was all there if I had chosen to, though.

For the people who are worried about their kids being in school with kids "from the wrong side of the tracks"--how are you preparing your children to be successful in the real world?  Are you going to try to control who they work with when they get jobs? Who their friends will be? What partner they'll end up with?

I teach in a high ESOL/minority population school and there are a lot of extremely bright students who are hard working and are trying their hardest to be successful in school and for their future. They are not the "riffraff" that some people here are making them out to be. Your kids were lucky to be born into a higher SES family. Some kids are not so lucky. Don't they deserve the same chances as your kids? [/quote]

Please point out one post where a parent expresses worry over kids from "the wrong side of the tracks."  I'm the earlier poster who was saying I bought in a good school district and would be upset if my kids were moved out of it.  I actually said the complete opposite of what you express - I said I'd be more than happy to welcome kids who haven't had the same opportunities that mine have had.  Please point out ONE quote in this thread that makes your point.[/quote]

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