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By all means - put the disadvantaged kids in smaller classes - I am all for it.

But putting your disadvantaged kid in the same class as my high achiever kid, may help your kid, but is actually hampering my child in reaching his full potential.

Good for your kid.  Got that.  Bad for my kid.  Where is the logic of that?
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You are assuming that middle-class/rich = high-achiever. It does not.

What's more, putting poor kids in the same class as middle-class/rich kids actually does not hurt the academic achievement of the middle-class/rich kids.[/quote]

+1
Research backs this up. 
On a personal level, we attend a VA Title I school and our teachers have been fantastic. Went out of their way to provide differentiation in the classroom so my son, who turned out to be highly gifted, got the challenge that he needed. 
It can be done.
As a VA observer to the issues over in MCPS. I think the writer of the column was correct. It can be done, but everyone needs to recognize the new normal in terms of population and demographics and plan accordingly. [/quote]

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