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Forget where the research puts it -- look at the performance at LT. The school is doing a great job educating kids. With all the back and forth about IB/OOB, high and low SES, how behavior problems are distributed, no one has disputed that. The central issue with Cobbs was that some parents (many -- but not all! -- white) didn't like how she dealt with *parents*. There is a consensus that she hired and effectively supported really good teachers. The behavior stats aren't the best ever, but -- playground anecdotes aside -- they aren't terrible, either.

It really bugs me when people pull in all sorts of studies about whether or not G&T/differentiation is better or what level of low-SES kids is ideal (which somehow doesn't address what to do with all the "extra" low-SES kids when the number in the school-age population exceeds the ideal percentage), instead of looking at the actual school and how it's doing.

Newsflash: It's doing well. I hope it will continue to do well under the new prinicpal, if only because people will stop being distracted by their personal dislike of Cobbs.[/quote]

Right, forget about all that silly research.  Let's assume that L-T is indeed the model school you describe, with great discipline and first-rate instruction.  Let's also assume that "personal dislike" of Cobbs has been the major impediment to in-boundary participation.  So we are to expect in-boundary parents of all colors and classes to flood every elementary grade six weeks hence?

Last summer, when I asked Cobbs if she'd be willing to ask her upper grades teachers to organize pullout groups for advanced kids her reply amounted to "no way in hell."  She explained in all seriousness that L-T would "never need" pullout groups because her teachers were "world class." You and she are mired in relativism.   I vote for "majority in-boundary" as our working metric for "doing well."

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