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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school is consider “bad” by many people on here. The people who actually attend the school love it. The teachers are engaged and excellent. The kids are thriving. Everyone who goes loves it. But 70% of the school qualifies for free lunch, so all of a sudden it’s a “bad” school. It is not. It’s an excellent school where children from all types of backgrounds are thriving. And better yet, the kids that go there are learning what the real world looks like. It’s not just white SUVs and blonde moms and that’s a good thing. [/quote]

A school doesn’t suddenly end up 70% FARMS and deemed “bad.” It takes years of higher-income and better-educated families gradually leaving an area because they’ve seen how their kids get ignored and taken for granted in the public schools, while most of the focus is on trying to get ESOL and FARMS kids to a basic competency level.

So you can trash the “blonde moms” all you want, but it’s a broader demographic that also includes Asian families and higher-income Black families that is leaving you to your super-majority FARMS paradise. [/quote]

Eh. I used to think this way but I'm now watching firsthand in our neighborhood and surrounding area as families opt for a "prestigious' catholic school over a well funded and awesome (but diverse) public. The catholic school has larger classes, less experienced and less qualified teachers, and a VERY conservative world view that doesn't generally align with that of the families who attend, but hey it's what everyone else is doing and no concerns that your kids might hear Spanish at lunch. Not a lot of though or investigation going into the decision at all. Some of the moms are brunettes, though.[/quote]

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