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[quote=Anonymous]As you all said, my children have never attended a "truly" rough school. They've attended schools with kids from very diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic levels... but yes, never a school "like Tyler." That is because we deliberately chose neighborhoods based somewhat on schools. My child has never attended a school that was more than 10% white either, which is neither here nor there--except to point out that in an urban environment there are plenty of schools where fights are not breaking out on the playground constantly. In my child's current elementary environment, the students are all penalized if some of them are talking and not listening, or being rowdy in line. From what I've seen, the teachers have a pretty light hand with this though. And, again, I have no problem with it.

I have a lot more of an issue with the types of parents who use this kind of stuff as examples of why schools need improvement, or why a school's administration (supposedly) isn't doing its job correctly. I may be reaching here--I am probably reaching--but this is the kind of bs that is getting bandied about at our current school by people who have never been in a classroom. [/quote]

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