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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get this and it rings true to me.

Ihave 4 kids. 2 of them would be fine in any environment. Of the other two, one is highly gifted and one is bright but has a learning disability. Both of them have had better experiences and gotten more tailored help/extension work in middle-low tier diverse schools rather than the highest performing ones. Our experience is that the former are more accustomed to dealing with a wide variety of abilities and learning styles at both ends of the spectrum (and at the high end, even if they haven't seen it before, they are used to individualizing more and more willing to try things).  Top performing schools can fall into a trap of thinking they have everything wired and they don't have to look beyond that.[/quote]

Our experience is the opposite.  At the lower-tier schools, the primary focus is on the "at risk" kids, the top kids can go the IB route, and everyone in the middle gets ignored and taken for granted. At the higher-tier schools, the middle is high-performing and appropriately challenged, and the top kids have even more opportunities to excel.  The biggest risk at the top-tier schools is that the low performers might be ignored, because they can flounder without placing the school at risk of losing accreditation, etc. [/quote]

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