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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am yet another person who was in your shoes once. Improving a school is an uphill battle, but it's not the children (low SES, high SES, whatever) that are problem -- fundamentally the problems are the result of how the school system is designed. My advice is that if you really want to help all the students learn as much as possible, focus your efforts on understanding the system and why it's malfunctioning, and then invest your time in promoting systemic change.[/quote]

One thing to remember about many reasonably decent neighborhood schools with a lot of out-of-boundary kids is that there are [b]a lot[/b] of forces at work that do *not* want to see an increase in the number of in-boundary families. Because an increase in in-boundary families necessarily means a decrease in out-of-boundary families. And those are the traditional constituency at your kid's school. So they are the existing principal's constituency. For the school to make gains in neighborhood enrollment, opportunities for OOB kids who often have few other options need to go away. And that sucks.[/quote]

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