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The school I work at is 93% free/reduced price lunch. Only 2 of my 33 students brought in any school supplies and only one of them could afford to pay the $7 fee for our field trip. Only a handful of them have crayons, glue sticks, etc at home and only 3 or 4 of them have a family car. They don't go to the library b/c it is too far to walk and the bus fare is too much. We don't have a librarian at our school so nobody can check books out of the library. Everyone gets free breakfast. This is what makes kids show up to school on time/at all. We just had a dentist visit us and gave out free toothbrushes. Some of the kids didn't want to put them in their lockers because they were afraid they would lose them. Many of them don't have their "own" toothbrush. It is another world right here around us.

That is sad to read.

But the problem is that your post confirms for some parents why they don't want to send their kid to a school with a high rate of FARMS kids -- because too much time is spent on stuff other than academics (like bringing in a dentist, addressing health and other issues). I'm not saying that those things shouldn't be done for those kids. But the problem is that nonFARMS parents worry that so much less time is spent on content/academics that it puts their kid behind others of the same means. And that is why they then decide that they wouldn't want their kid going to school with poor kids.

I don't know the solution. But sadly, while your post might make people feel bad for those children, it probably deters parents even more from sending their kids to high FARMS rate schools. And I think probably that wasn't your intention.  
 
 
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This is also the reason that teachers should not be paid based on test scores.  There is a huge difference in teaching children who have nothing and those who have everything.[/quote]

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