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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School ratings do not mean "good" schools.  It means good test scores and wealthy parents.

Some of the best schools near us are Title 1 schools.

So first break down your bias about what a "good school" actually is, then look around.[/quote]

This is OP. We actually looked at a neighborhood feeding into a title 1. I was able to visit the elementary several times and was shocked by what goes on there. [/quote]

No, title 1 schools are not good.  Sorry.  While the teachers may be good or even great, they are teaching a bunch of kids that are either far behind or not at grade level.  If your child is working above grade level or even at grade level, they will not make progress.  Plus more behavioral issues, more IEPs, etc. [/quote]

You can’t paint any type of school that way.  Based on the OP complaints.  At our title 1 school my 2nd grader has been doing phonics every year, the whole class is doing addition and subtraction with 3 and 4 digit numbers and my son’s math group (3 of 21 kids) is doing multiplication and division in their small group with the teacher.  They do weekly spelling tests on paper and are working on how to structure 5 sentence paragraphs.

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Ok, good for you.  99% of title 1 schools are teaching to the the bottle 25th percentile who happen to be the majority of their students [/quote]

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