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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wealthier school communities get weekly teacher emails??
WHAT THE WHAT?[/quote]

W parent here and we I get between 2-5 email weekly from his teacher, most general and some specific. Another couple a month form the room parents and class social organizer. We do have large classes though that have only gotten bigger as the year drags on, 4 additional kids have been added. I have always wondered, are there as many after school enrichment classes at focus schools. The list of STEM, art, sports and extracurricular classes such as acting, dance and magic classes which take the kids up to 4:45 to assist with work timing hosted by the school is impressive. I assume those are county wide but curious. The PTA resources are obviously going to be different but that seems to help the school budget more than a tanagible benefit per kid.

If anybody has a question about a non-focus supposedly wealthy school and would like an honest answer fell free. I have been curious what it would have been like if we had stayed in Takoma Park. I am curious have they handle the gap between ESOL and English kids.  [/quote]

I'd be interested in knowing more about patent participation.  Are there are wide variety of parents who volunteer or do you find it to be the same group of parents in each class?  We are at a Focus school and (understandably) it's the parents that are more middle class who can take off work to go on field trips or help with class parties.  There are about 1/3 of the parents in any given class that I have never met because they are unable to/choose not to attend school events.  I wonder if you get more widespread parent participation at a wealthier school.  [/quote]

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