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[quote=Anonymous]1. Good advice to volunteer early and often.

2. Become friendly with some teachers, by doing #1 over the year.

3. Tell your family you appreciate their concern, and maybe stop talking about it with them.

We recently moved house to go from a Title I school to a much higher rated school and I could not be happier. My kids are so much happier too and learning so much more. It was water torture at the first school, many many small problems adding up over the years. It's not a clear cut decision no matter what school you choose there are pros and cons as people said. However, the several years at the first school really opened my eyes to what I wanted for my children's education. I WOHM but volunteered a lot and over time, I saw the major issues at the school, and got to know a lot of teachers who all told us when asked privately that we should leave for the benefit of our children if we were able. Our issues were partly due to the huge poverty issues, behavioral issues, and partly the terrible admin at our particular school and huge turnover of teachers - which is all common in high poverty schools. I very very much appreciate our 8-10 school probably more than others at our current school because of our past experiences.

My friends who are still at the first school hardly ever volunteer and do not see what is going on day to day in the classes and the transitions playground lunch room music etc. They are blissfully ignorant, and that's fine.

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