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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After read through all 10 pages, I conclude that most people complained about lack of diversity in W schools because they think low income families don't have any chance, rent or buy, to live in the community.  A few people who actually live in red zone said they are happy with the education their children received and the school.  They don't think their kids receive less education.
There are a lot of good teachers and a few bad teachers in each school. MCPS put a lots of special programs in less affluent HS that are not available to most of the W school.  There were three HS programs in my W HS five years ago but only one left now. 
Erasing achievement gap between schools by busing kids around will not erase the achievement gap between the up an d low perform students academically.  You need to change the culture of some family to let kids believe academic achievement is more important than become a football or basketball player, or a pop star.  Math is boring but will get you a decent life if you work hard. 
Not all the kids from high SES wear brand named shoes or clothes or carry a fancy bag, nor all the kids has a smart phone.  If you go to a MS/HS in red zone, you may find a lot of kids wear brand named jackets/shoes and carry smart phones.  I am not sure many of them came from low SES families or on FARM.  It is a choice of life style, or style.[/quote]

Last time I checked the SES families all have smartphone, brand new sneakers, north face and more.  But yet, we pay for their kids meals.  Like you said, it is a lifestyle.  If you are taught that you don't have to work hard to succeed, you never will.  Welfare will help you get the things you need so you can have your money for things that you "want."  The system is broke.  That is the issue.  Kids mimic their families, families are attached to a system that caters to them and never forces them off or watches what they do/spend with the money they do have.  That will never ever change unless government assistance starts to offer mandatory volunteering or educational training for assistance received.  See that you have applied to x amount of places and follow up.  If these are done, your assistance starts going down off a sliding scale.  Then maybe there will be more people accountable for themselves and start teaching their kids the same thing.  [/quote]

Checked with who?  I work in a Title 1 school, very few of my kids have any of the things you describe, nor do their parents.  It is not uncommon for families not to have phones at all, or to have phones that only have texting privileges and can't make calls.

Volunteering or job training is mandatory for families who receive TANF, unless they meet very specific requirements such as a mother with a newborn, or a person with certain disabilities.  The job training is often very inflexible, and I'm often in the position of calling a mother to pick up a sick child, and having to fill out documentation to prove that the mother had a valid reason for leaving "work".  I've also had parents "fired" from job training, which means a period of no cash benefits, because they came to school for a meeting after being told no by a supervisor.

I should also add that things are changing, there has been a dramatic decline in this country in the number of families receiving cash benefits, even while supports such s food stams that are aimed at the working poor have increased.

Honestly, when people talk about how they know that all Low SES families have smart phones or North Face, I have to wonder if they're just noticing a few black or brown people with smart phones or North Face and adding their own personal stereoptypes to assume that they must be on TANF.  [/quote]

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