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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think it would take much. If there are families that live three blocks from Stuart-Hobson MS willing to trek almost an hour each way to Deal, if you can offer something comparable around here, academics, specials, extra-curricular, and facilities included, they'll take it. Imagine the life, leisure, and friendships you recover in the process, parents and students!
But I think at another level, there is also no getting around the need to deconstruct the narrative that one's middle class child, black or white, cannot thrive in proximity to less well off students. It may take a little more outreach and involvement at times but that comes for free if families live near-by. This may sound cynical, but teachers at schools that have a wide mix of students, from a wide spectrum of homes and socioeconomic backgrounds, don't get around practicing all kinds of different differentiated teaching models, which (and I speak from experience in a struggling upper ES) benefit advanced students, where they are more likely to get lost in the average shuffle of a middle-class school. Also, let's face it, schools with high percentages of students from poor backgrounds get additional resources and attention (I mean actual programs and staffing), again resources that help support and differentiate classrooms. In a nutshell, in a poor school you cannot get by with average teaching, no longer anyway. Works for me![/quote]

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