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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apologies if I missed this somewhere but one question that has bugged me in thinking about these issues (have young children who will enter school in a couple years):  is there any evidence that rich parents sending their kids to their local public makes the local public better? Would love to see evidence that isn’t just anecdotal. [/quote]

I don’t know about evidence. But I have first hand experience. We moved from Alexandria to McLean. In our Alexandria local school the kids learn to read in kindergarten and in McLean 60% of kids came into my DD’s class reading fluently and the rest were emergent readers. She was only one of 2 that did not know how to read from the start. Her preschool teacher said she was right on track, since she knew her letters and sounds. Her current preschool teacher said that her McLean school has different expectations than other schools she has taught.

Some of the kids in her class had already completed kindergarten at a private school.  I am not sure how many parents in Alexandria could afford to send their kids to private kindergarten. Things are very different, even though we only moved 15 miles away. [/quote]

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