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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP will the cheaper house allow you to stop working or go part time?

[b]Then you can the academic manager and tutor for your kid to help provide the differentiation they will not receive at a school where managing discipline and simply passing the SOLs is the priority of the teachers and administration[/b] [/quote]

Very true at our base Title 1 school. In addition, at the middle school level, we've experience a lot of fighting. Not so much in the honors classes but in the hallways and lunchroom. The admin spends much time dealing with it and/or trying to head it off. The school bell schedule is different from others in that many middle schools have 3rd period every day for 45 mins and the remaining time is used as study time. Our school doesn't do this. Instead, they take a whole 90 minute slot every other day and give 1/2 to study time and 1/2 to teaching manners and lessons on how to get along better. Furthermore, our middle school is no longer reading novels. Admin said they are piloting the readers and writers workshops and eventually this will be rolled out to all middle schools. When I looked up those programs, the focus is on getting kids to just pick up a book and read. You get what you pay for. Admin can decide what to do based on the majority population.[/quote]

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