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I come from a lower SES background, and one thing you don't find, and that is often echoed by other poster who come from a similar background is that higher SES parents are moe involved in their schools.  Often ridiculously so.

If everyone that was of a lower SES started demanding more of their schools more would happen.[/quote]

Yes, if everyone with a lower SES behaved more like people with a high SES, then the schools wouldn't have the problems that go with having lots of students with low-SES parents. That kind of goes without saying. It's not a policy solution, though. Unless you think that, "Hey! Poors! Start behaving more like affluent people!" is a policy solution?

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pp, think about what you wrote. Then this week, go early and drop your kid off at school and watch the student body and parents. 
Do the kids or parents or teachers look like they give a damn? If not, then start squawking. You are getting railroaded by a poorly performing school that is probably focusing mainly on the troublemakers, apathetic kids and ESOLs. 
Demand tracking and attention for your middle class kid. Just the fact that you're on dcum regarding this topic means you care. Do something more. Ask questions. Ask the school what it is doing for your middle class kid? Take the answer and call the press. The press is all over what generous MoCo is doing for illegals (special testing, special counseling, special meals, special English classes); go tell the press what most of MoCo does for a middle class, legal, net tax-paying family.  Go tell presidential candidate O'Malley what his agenda has done to middle class kids in one of the largest counties in the country. [/quote]

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