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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do people have against racial/cultural/SES diversity? [/quote]

Obviously something.  Wish I knew what it was.  Fear, I guess.[/quote]

Pretty much. My kids attend a title 1 school,  have done really well there and we have been very happy with the teachers. They challenge teh kids who need more challenging while working with kids who need more help.  Half our neighborhood does private because many "want a catholic education" code for "school with more white kids with higher SES backgrounds."

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Not necessarily.  We did private and it was code for "the kids behavior problems are over the top"

Pretending that there are not serious problems in schools with "diversity" is just stupid.

There are lots of problems.  A good portion of the school admin, teachers  and work is really dedicated to social services.  When you have to spend 50-75% of time on those issues, it doesn't leave much time for education.  So schools in N. Arl, the teachers and admins are not worrying about little Larla not having enough to eat and then have to spend time finding something for Larla to eat, contacting her parents, helping them get set up with food stamps, etc and so forth.  Then there is little Larlo who doesn't have enough schools supplies, and Larlalette didn't have shoes and keep going 50times over and the whole school day has been used up and nothing has been taught. [/quote]

did you actually try out the public school before going private because I can tell you none of my neighbors did.  We have not at all dealt with anything you are describing. The excuses you made are for the most part assumptions about lower income kids. An no teachers aren't running around worried if kids are hungry because those kids are getting free breakfast and lunch. There is also a program where kids are sent home on weekends with meals.

not saying there aren't any problems, but I don't at all think they are on the magnitude you are trying to portray. [/quote]

Of course they didn't go to the neighborhood school. They are describing a characature of an impoverished school. The children in my title 1 neighborhood school are very well cared for. They may not have expensive clothes, but they are clean, neat, and fed. The welfare of their children is priority number 1 in our immigrant communities.[/quote]

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