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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Nothing - NOTHING - impacts school quality as much as engaged, educated parents who encourage their kids, support the school, socially and economically. These are people who show up, they are almost always UMC people with the means to do it, and there aren't enough of them in most SA schools, and never will be until the SB draws boundaries that aren't so segregated so as to run off what few UMC parents are willing to give a school a shot but bail after three years of exhaustion. UMC are a strategic resource and aps should act like it.\.[/quote]

That's utterly ridiculous.  I would say teacher quality is vastly more important.  Supports given to students who are struggling are vastly more important.  I could think of many other things that are vastly more important that being surrounded by UMC people.  What an obnoxious statement.[/quote]

Not PP, but I think it's both. You really need both excellent teachers and a large group of engaged parents (who don't have to be high income necessarily, just able and willing to volunteer and to push their students at home; it's just more likely to find parents who are able to be that engaged at that level among higher income brackets because they are typically the ones who have the luxury of time, while many poorer families do not). You really don't need a school to be under 20% fr/l for every kid to have an optimal experience, but you might need it to be closer to 50%. [/quote]

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