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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I would not oppose a program to bus kids from Title I schools MC and UMC schools. If the parents could volunteer their kids to participate and the parents wanted their kids to attend those schools. And if there were supports in place in K-2 to help those kids address the gaps that exist. I suspect that the families who would take that option would be the same families desperate to send their kids to the AAP Center because they want to escpae the school. Kind of like the families who say they want their kid to go to an AP program in high school isn't IB. The parents really don't care about the IB, they just don't want their kid at Justice or Lewis or Mt. Vernon and AP is the excuse for leaving for a different high school.[/quote]

The first part is reasonable.  That's what so many people on DCUM pushing for busing don't understand.  I taught in a bused school.  So many problems when poor kids are bused in.  No shows for parent conferences (and it was not because they were at work); truancy; child gets sick?  stays in the nurse's office all day; no participation in school activities, etc.  It not only does not help the kids, it can work to their detriment.

As for the AP/IB issue.  There are plenty of people who don't want IB that are not escaping schools.
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