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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought recess time was fixed, it seems like at least for the preschoolers the day is on a minute by minute schedule.

Can't the gentrifiers bring in some outerwear?  [/quote]

If the school social worker says that's wanted and needed and appropriate -- maybe. But there are only about 10% higher SES families at a school live Cleveland, and most are gone by K or 1st. The population that stays through fifth is kinda over the know it all white women coming in and telling them how to do behave / what to wear / how to live in most parts of the city.

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So then what happens?  Serious question, if this is playing out at a lot of schools, what typically happens next?  [/quote]

The higher SES kids go to other charters or move, the other families stick around. Is that what you mean?[/quote]

I mean, is this the "growing pains"?  It doesn't seem so bad... gentrifiers trying to raise money and "help" the school in the ways they genuinely think are good, but being resented and ignored by others.... does anything worsr tend to happen?[/quote]

Well sometimes the gentrifiers try to get the principal fired, especially if they perceive that their 'high achieving' children's needs aren't being met, or that the principal is too focused on helping students who are struggling (see Watkins ES as an example). http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/20864768/a-fight-to-remove-a-dcps-principal-on-capitol-hill-gets-ugly

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