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np here.  I have no kids yet in MoCo but I have a very close relative who teaches at New Hampshire Estates, a title I school.   Sbe tells us things that she's really contractually or ethically forbidden to discuss.  In her classes of ~15, there's always one child who[i] isn't[/i] FARM + ESL.   The other 14 are always poor to dirt poor recent immigrants with parents who are entirely uninvested in the kids' education -- for a variety of reasons.  ie, they don't speak English, it's not culturally common to engage with teachers, they work 3 jobs, they live in another country and the kid is staying in a counsin's basement ... whatever.
Bottom line, my teacher-relative spends 98% of her time focusing on the 14 students described above because she must.  The 'high performing child' gets minimal attention and my relative freely admits this.  She is frustrated because she spend a huge amount of time on classroom management and behavior and less time than is needed on instruction.
Not to mention, when 14 of the 15 kids need to learn at a slow pace during oral instruction  -- again, for a variety of understandable reasons -- the 15th kid must necessarily learn at a slow pace.   Do a DCUM search for 'new hampshire estates' and you'll find other posts of hers and mine with more concrete examples of what I'm talking about. [/quote]

I guess I can understand this frustration, but we do go to school with other people in our community in this country. Their children need to learn English and the schools are doing an excellent job teaching them. Is this 15th kid really losing so much that it's worth it for his wealthier family to pull him out, like all the other wealthier families have pulled their kids out, so there are literally no highly involved parents left? It seems like we've made that bargain in this country. That we keep our own kid completely safe, surrounded by other wealthy kids, while draining all the parental resources out of the schools we leave.[/quote]

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