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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You don't see the problem with a bunch of white parents coming in with a savior complex to "help" the "poor black/brown kids"?[/quote]

Of course I do, that's why "help" is in quotes.  But what tends to happen beyond general resentment?[/quote]

A lot of instability as kids leave the school in later grades and less-prepared kids come to take their places
A principal and teachers sidetracked by petty arguments and more likely to quit so they don't have to deal with that
Low participation in the PTA and other activities where parents can get involved[/quote]

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