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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree w you op as someone who went to high poverty public schools from elementary-high school despite being from a UMC family w parents who could’ve easily afforded to move us to a better public school district or send us to private schools. They wanted to support urban public education (much like another PP stated about her parents) and they also had the mindset that my siblings and I would do well in life no matter where we went to school because they knew we were smart and that they could provide us w lots of enrichment outside of school. They also thought it was important for us to go to school w kids who were from different SES/(and also racial) backgrounds than we were so we wouldn’t grow up in a bubble.

While I think my parents had good intentions and now as an adult I do share a lot of their beliefs (we live in a city and our kids attend urban, diverse public schools too), my own school experience was frankly awful. There were so many problems w day to day operation of the school that I didn’t get a good education—academically or socio-emotionally either. School was a depressing, sometimes scary/dangerous (fights all the time in and around the school, events like school dances and pep rallies were always getting cancelled due to student fighting) place to be. I hated school and never felt supported there by teachers, who were mostly too busy dealing w all the challenges of working in a high poverty school to teach well at all and certainly stretched too thin to provide much support to the “good, smart” kids. If you were a quiet, well behaved kid like I was the teachers didn’t pay any attention to you and just let you slide by even if you weren’t that great of a student academically. If my parents had known how bad it was they wouldn’t have made the same choice. But I think at the time they were so wrapped up in the ideology of doing something they believed in that they couldn’t see how it was damaging and not a good environment for us kids.[/quote]
OP here. I am hoping my post will be able to reach at least one parent like yours. 
Why did you send your kids to an urban school too though? [/quote]

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