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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to toss in a very non-PC but additional issue that explains why many parents of high performing or privileged children might oppose this.  One thing we all saw starkly during virtual last year, and we're now hearing about this year, is that the teachers are absolutely focused on the lowest performing and struggling kids.  This has always been the case, but the learning loss from the pandemic has made the gap even greater.

If I have a high performing kid right now in a so-called good, low-FRL school who isn't getting appropriate instruction because the teachers have to focus on the bottom, do I really want to put my child into a school that is so-called lower performing where the proportion of high achieving to struggling students is even greater? It's unfortunate that while it might be good for my child's seatmate, it could actually be detrimental to him because the school's approach will be "he'll be fine", which is already what we are seeing in our NA school.  On a philosophical grand scheme, it's laudable.  At a true family-focused level, it might not be.
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This is absolutely the case. I come from a family of teachers and they all admit privately what no one will say publicly. Since tracking is verboten, the educational establishment has concocted this fantasy that a single teacher to be 7 different people at once in order to serve a heterogeneous classroom on their own terms. Nope. [/quote]

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