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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My biggest concern at our school is the peer group, and this isn't even a Title I school.  The disrespectful and inappropriate language and behavior is unreal, starting as early as KG.  I know that rich kids behave badly as well, but the additional challenges that the low-income kids and their families are dealing with definitely spills into the classroom.  There are some problems even a wonderful staff cannot solve.   [/quote]

This would be my concern as well.   :([/quote]

Mine, too.  Our school is not a Title 1 school and is in a fairly nice area.  However, the boundaries are such that a large lower-income apartment complex feeds into it.  It is fairly obvious to me, which those kids are.  An example: I went to a performance day at the school where the students in music class can "show off" their talents in singing, instrument, etc.  Some of the kids were played classical violin or piano pieces.  Others did cute pop songs as a group.  A group of the lower-income kids performed a song with questionable lyrics that the music teacher had to cut them off because of the offensive words.  It was not any type of music I would ever let my 3rd-grader listen to!

While I do agree that the suport at a lower-income school is good, you really need to stay on top of things as far as behavior/class vibe/language, etc. (not that there aren't problems at higher-income schools, just these are things I've noticed among lower-income kids as a whole).[/quote]

My parents forced me to play classical piano since I was 3 years old. I wish my parents let me dance/sing to songs with questionable lyrics![/quote]

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