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Reply to "Rich but send kids to urban public school?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I'm curious. How many of you PPs will really stay public past elementary? My family didn't have the luxury of choice and middle school as a minority student was the stuff of nightmares. Drugs, 12 year-old girls pregnant, daily fights in cafeteria/lunchroom/gymnasium "multipurpose" room because facilities were so pathetic, students coming to school hungry or full of Lay's/Kool-Aid "breakfast"...getting swatted on the butt trying to get to class, hands put down my shirt, shoved into lockers etc. Diversity did not promote academic achievement nor did it facilitate understanding. In fact it drove us further apart. So much time was spent on disciplinary issues and reinforcing classroom expectations that no real learning went on. I spent the majority of my classroom time in the corner with a book I'd brought from home.[/quote]
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