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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because your kids are more likely to get a good education at a public school with high SES kids. I wish it wasn't true but it is. My kids are in a school that is about 40% FARMS and serving those kids takes up so much time/energy/focus. My kids and kids like them are just not a priority. Plus there are little things. Like my kids take private music lessons, which most kids can't afford, so my kids are way ahead of the other kids in music and hence are completely bored even though the music teacher switched them to the advanced orchestra that is primarily for kids two+ years older than them. That would not happen if we lived in Darien, CT. My kids are not super talented - we can just afford private instruction and have the family structure to ensure they practice daily (which is easier to do when you live in a house vs an apartment with shared walls). Not to mention that the English teacher is not assigning a single novel this year for 6th grade because it is too much for the students. So we have to supplement at home, which just makes the achievement gap worse. Rinse and repeat.[/quote]

[b]Yup, low expectations. It has been the single worst crime of education.[/b] [/quote]

Teacher here. This is the reason my kid no longer goes to public school. Public schools may have high standards but the expectations are pretty low. Show up, hand in work that meets the standard and you get an A. Meanwhile, in my son's private school, if he did the same thing, he'd probably get a C or D. At my public school, they are practically begging kids to even come to school. Every month we have incentives for attendance. Only in America where education is free do people not take advantage of it.[/quote]

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