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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listening to the podcast and I find it interesting.  One of our kids goes to a high FARMs focus school that is ripped on DCUM as a bad school. But, our advanced kid is doing really well there and loves it. I've asked her if there are fights or disruptive behavior and she said not often.  There's also a mix of races in her classes so it isn't like the white kids take up all, or even a majority, of the seats in the gifted/advanced classes.

I read here that poorer parents aren't involved. But that's not my experience. The black and Hispanic parents go to all the events and contribute. I doubt they are able to afford to contribute in all the same ways as the higher income parents but that's how society works.

I did have to adapt to the fact that things do, like the podcast says, seem more chaotic and loud. There's always a dull roar from the crowd at, say, back to school night, that just doesn't exist in the whiter schools. Part of that is that immigrant and minority families bring the whole family to these events rather than just the mom or dad. Also, there's a main speaker in English at the front of the room and a translator for spanish in the back. It turns out that integration doesn't mean conformity.  We don't just take students from different cultures and countries and integrate them into our culture.  We have to integrate WITH them and it's a bit of a culture shock at first. I can see why it scares some parents away.  But I'm glad we stuck it out because our kid is happy and doing well. [/quote]

I don’t know why we can’t just let people be happy with something even if we think it wouldn’t work for us.

Wait until college before you talk up a crummy high school. Or the first couple of boyfriends. [/quote]

All kids are benchmarked using the same tests so I am able to compare my child's performance against the district and national performance. She's doing well above average. Also, it's not a crummy school. It's a school with lower SES children.  [/quote][/quote]

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