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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the PP, it's not quite fair to say the only thing you could do to help kids in poverty is give them new parents. I thought the [b]research was pretty clear on the benefits of putting disadvantaged kids in smaller classes, and in schools not completely full of other disadvantaged kids[/b]. [/quote]

By all means - put the disadvantaged kids in smaller classes - I am all for it.

But putting your disadvantaged kid in the same class as my high achiever kid, may help your kid, but is actually hampering my child in reaching his full potential.

Good for your kid.  Got that.  Bad for my kid.  Where is the logic of that?
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I just disagree that it would be bad for your child. Poverty is not contagious. Young children are smart and adaptable. Someone is bound on come on here and tell about how difficult it was for their middle class kid at a school that was 90% FARMs. There's the point exactly. Schools that are 90% FARMs aren't good for anyone.

If you disagree, then just substitute "black" for "disadvantaged." So your quote above would read "putting your black kid in the same class as my kid, may help your kid, but is actually hampering my child in reaching his full potential." It sounds archaic and objectionable. Saying it about poor kids in general sounds no different to me.[/quote]

I did not say "BLACK" kid - I did not say "POVERTY" ...this is your mindset, your perception and the chip on your shoulder - so you can deal with it or wallow in it - your choice.  I am talking about[b] parenting as a factor in the success of students[/b].  Something that MCPS cannot replicate on an institutional basis.

I do not have a problem with a child from a "poor" family or any other minority group sitting in the same classroom as my child - since I am a minority too whose kids have gone to the bottom of the heap ES and MS in MCPS.  I have a problem with disruptive students who are below grade level and who hamper my kid from being challenged academically in school.  That is the kind of "disadvantaged student" I am seeing.  Not Black not Hispanic, but a disruptive child who does not do assigned work or homework, who sucks up the time of the teacher.  Pity the teachers as well, since they cannot even complain about such students because they get dinged in their evaluation.

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OK, fair enough. Fortunately for me, my kids haven't gone to the bottom of the heap, as you say, so my perspective is different. Wouldn't you rather there was no school at the bottom of the heap, though, and children weren't segregated so completely by income? If you are a minority whose kids have gone to subpar schools, why are you arguing against Dan Reed?
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