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[quote=Anonymous]Does anyone think that the "at risk" set asides, if implemented the way they are written, will make them flee public for private?  We are almost done with ES, and going to a charter, but honestly when I think of Mann or Key and how they would deal with a truly troubled student without seriously disrupting the education of the other kids I cringe....

We had two teachers in every class, partially very useful to pull out disruptive students -  and these were IB disruptive students.  I do worry that the WOTP schools, who will not gain any traction to get wrap around services for these kids, may seriously change in ways I would not like because they are simply not equipped to help kids who come from unstable situations like foster care or being homeless, who presumable have been shuffled from school to school and had their education suffer as a result.

I am not sure anyone really thought carefully about how this would work for the "at risk" students either in WOTP elementary schools.  Kids who are in foster care or whose families qualify for TANF/SNAP.  How will they get to school?  How will they feel once they are there, especially if they are profoundly academically behind and in with a bunch of white affluent kids for the first time in their lives????[/quote]

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