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[quote=Anonymous]One issue no one else seems to have touched on is what if you are a family with an IEP kid.  We have 3 kids and were originally in private.  One of our kids has an IEP and started off in FFX child find program b/c of a speech delay.  We held him back from K so he was being evaluated at our local Title I school (as he was K age) but he was attending pre K at a private.  The Title I school, with a 65% + ESL K class, decided our DS no longer needed special ed services.  The private denied our kid a K contract b/c they said he didn't have enough self confidence to succeed in K and didn't consistently work independently (and this was not an exclusive or competitive private).

Compared to the significant number kids with limited English and few economic resources at our zoned Title I school, our DS may have seemed just fine, but we knew that if we enrolled our DS in the Title I public he would flounder.  So we bought a house in a stellar elementary school district in McLean.  We appealed the Title I school's determination that our kid didn't need special ed services and won.  The new elementary school - which in no way would qualify as a Title I school - agreed with our appeal and provided the services our DS needed to have a successful K year.  I LOVE my kids' new school.

If you have an intelligent, confident, self motivated kid (and I have one of those in the AAP program), then they will succeed anywhere, including at a Title I school.  But if you have an average kid, or a kid with special needs, then being at a Title I school may not be a great idea.  [/quote]

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