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[quote=Anonymous]I live near Palo Alto. In PA's case, the suicides let happening and the district blamed it on the parents and wouldn't even put a fence around the railroad tracks that border one of the high schools. Meanwhile the district created a few rules like that teachers can't give homework during finals, but those rules aren't enforced.

I don't know why pp thinks you can test in to advanced or honors classes later - you can't. It is tracked from before middle school.

I don't agree with cancelling gate classes but the gate classes should be tracking actual gifted kids. Not just looking for who went to kumon after school. I can't tell from this if it was actual gifted services or not.

But at least the school district did something! The Palo Alto suicide problem has been going on at least 8 years and is mostly dealt with by finger pointing. We are still having them.

Supposedly there was a study that from decision to action it was 7 minutes. 7 minutes! As a parent that scares the hell out me.[/quote]

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