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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not the PP, but the idea that placing a small number of proficient children across a large number of schools is good either for those children or for the children that they are in class with is completely unfounded from reality.  Without a critical mass of higher-achieving students at a school, there is essentially no differentiated instruction for the small number of proficieint kids and they stop being proficient.  Plus, I'm not aware of any support in the literature showing that a small minority of proficient kids serves to increase the performance of lower-achieving children.  I believe that it's the opposite - that going to school with a sufficient number of proficient kids brings up the poorer performing kids, likely because the culture and expectations at the school are then different.  This strikes me as a set-up for having a small number of miserable kids who are bored in school and quickly check out or find another school.  I would think there are a whole lot of parents out there who would be angry at the idea that their children's education ought to be sacrificed at the alter of neighborhood schools, just so the huge number of poorly performing kids in the class have something to aspire to.  And I say this not as a NW parents, but as someone who lives probably pretty close to you and has one kid in a charter and another in an OOB middle school.[/quote]

Agree with this.  The PP you responded to needs to read "A Hope In the Unseen" immediately if they think "spreading the smart kids around" does anything other than cripple their chances.   We need to increase middle-class enrollment across the board, not take away advanced learning environments for advanced students.[/quote]

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