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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care about racial diversity but did choose to live in an area zoned for a HS with more economic diversity vs. one that has virtually no FARMs kids and skews to very high income.  I went to that kind of nearly-all upper income HS and the culture was toxic -- all about appearances, materialism, bullying those who didn't fit the right look, lots of drug use, entitled kids and parents.  I managed to isolate myself somewhat from all of it by being in a small honors program within the HS but it definitely gives a skewed perception of the real world.

My kids have been at schools for ES, MS and HS with 30-40% FARMs rates and I've been happy with the quality of the education at all the schools and the quality of the school culture.  The schools happen to be racially diverse too but that wasn't the goal.[/quote]

That would mean you have 30-40% of the kids having little to no parent involvement in the school. If you ask me that is more toxic. Statistically FARMS kids do not have the same parental involvement as others. That is a huge amount of FARMS. Parent involvement is what makes a school strong and high achieving. [/quote]
I would guess that even at high SES schools at least 30-40% of parents have little too involvement at the school. DD attended an ES that was 45% FARMS. The school had great parent involvement, a very active PTA, lots of after school activities. I have friends who sent their kids to higher SES ES, and those friends didn't attend a single PTA meeting or ever volunteer in class. [/quote]

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