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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t get why people are willing to play the lottery and move their kids around for poor schools year after year.  And no, just because your kid does fine in school doesn’t mean they will get the best education in these schools.  They will for sure be behind their peers in much better schools because they will not reach their full potential.  Easy to cruise and do nothing and learn little when standards and expectations are so low.

I was a FARMs kid and got out of bad situations and low expectations because of G & T in elementary and tracking.  It’s bad enough when majority of kids are way below grade level.  It’s worst when a kid with lots of potential is placed in the same group.  The teacher is not going to be focusing on your kid when 3/4th or more of the kids are below grade level.  Your differentiation will be putting your kid on a computer or giving a workbook to work on.

As to middle school, it’s laughable that naive parents think that there is any differentiation and even if there is that it even works.

I won’t even touch on the behavior issues, disruptive classes, truancy, bullying, fights, verbal abuse to students and teachers, etc…. Sure there are these issues in all schools but the frequency, severity, and consequences matters a lot. In DC there are no consequences.  Think about that for a minute.

Move to the best school pyramid you can if you are able and then you don’t have to [/quote]

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