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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly think a better option than finagling an already overcrowded system where lots of families lottery for a smaller and smaller number of seats is to 1) offer parenting classes and counseling to teen mothers 2) provide wrap around services at the local school that provide care, counseling and nourishment at no cost and 3) ensure that people are paid a living wage. Thinking a very poor child living in SE can make it to Lafayette on time each day is a pipe dream. [/quote]

This. [b]You’re not going to send an at risk kid to a “great” school and get anything other than a kid at the bottom of the class, probably in trouble all the time, etc.[/b] Don’t even do this unless you’re serious about addressing the real causes of the achievement gap. [/quote]

This is so wrong.  Studies have shown many times that placing an "at-risk" kid into a higher performing peer group in a heavily resourced school WILL help that kid.   If nothing else, that school will actually have resources.  My kids goes to a JKLM school and we have a 10 person team of interventionalists, etc.   The administrative assistant at my job sends her son (with learning differences) to a poorly performing DCPS and there isn't even a single person managing IEPs, etc.  Well, they had one but she left on leave 4 months ago and nothing has been done since.   This kid would do [b]so much better[/b] in a school like my kids attend.  He would get all sorts of help.  
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