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	Maybe more parents would be "trailblazers" if they were confident that certain things that usually affect high-poverty schools would be taken care of like:
- actually removing chronically disruptive children from the classroom (so that all kids can learn, and teachers are able to create more relaxed environments)
- providing a rich, well-balanced curriculum, not one that is completely about the tests
- making sure that higher performing students, or students with unique talents, can get proper attention from the teachers and not get lost in the NCLB shuffle
- getting the schools staffed with experienced teachers who already know how to teach, not lots of inexperienced folks who are learning on the job

These things are basically a given in schools that service mostly middle and high income kids, but not in schools with mostly low income kids. [/quote]

Do you have children in public schools? The things you list above? Are characteristics of *all* public schools, thanks to NCLB. Public schools increasingly teach to the test, especially now, as teacher evaluation systems now include student standardized test scores as a mark of teacher effectiveness. In fact, the VA general assembly is considering a plan to judge teacher preparation programs on the test scores of the students of the graduates of said programs. Individualized instruction for students with "unique talents" is also becoming an impossibility, especially when up to 40% of the student body (MoCo) tests in the "gifted range".

Finally, removing students from a public school classroom for being disruptive? Very very rarely happens, unless there is some kind of bloodshed.

No, wait. Finally, finally, TFA has contracts with districts to place their undereducated teachers in the classroom. This, and the proliferation of alternative teacher preparation programs, practically guarantees that schools will continue to be staffed by inexperienced teachers who only have a 2-3 commitment to teaching.

So, no, these things are not a given in any public school. The system as a whole needs fixing.[/quote]

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