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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/rich-parents-hurt-schools-economic-segregation.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region [/quote]

Yeah, I’m not seeing the ‘bad’ for their children here. Just the alleged ‘bad’ for other people’s children.
It’s normal for a family to want the best education and environment for their child. That’s not a bad thing. 
They did buy a house in a neighborhood so that their kids could attend certain schools with a good group of peers.

We sent our DD to a small private school. After a few years it was clear that the teaching and classes weren’t that great going forth and that the peer group wasn’t the best for DD so she changed schools for a better one. The new school had consistently great teachers and also a good peer group to choose from.
DD did as well as she possibly could have in school.

Should we have kept her at the old school ? To what end - to help the kids that weren’t overly interested in academics be more interested? Why?
For one, that would not have happened - the kids are on different tracks in life by their own choices. For two - that’s not a child’s role in life.

FYI these kids were all from the same racial and economic backgrounds at the old school. At the new school there was some increase in economic status but the richer the students were the worse they seemed to do in school really in many cases (and some worse behavior too).

(The best environment (academically and socially) to me seems to be a middle class one and not a rich/upper middle class one.)

If parents could trust that new public schools could be created with excellent teaching and classes there wouldn’t be an issue.

Finally - why is this posted in MoCo schools? The MoCo model is to create the hugest schools possible and then to seriously over crowd them FOREVER so how is this relevant?

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