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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another vote for FARMS … DD had 16 in her K class and DS will have 19 when he starts next week.  DD has gotten an amazing education.  You get what you pay for when you buy those houses in more expensive neighbor …. oh, wait ...[/quote]

It's OK in elementary, but peer influences become much more important as the kids get older.[/quote]

… your implication being that people from lower SES will automatically be negative influences?  That's an interesting mindset to have about the world.  I'd beg to differ, being the daughter of a debutante who married the dirt-poor son of farmers.[/quote]

I'm the daughter of a dirt-poor daughter of a farmer who married a WASP.  Unfortunately, you do tend to see more negative-influences with lower SES.  Look at the statistics.  Schools (high schools & middle schools) with higher SES rates have more drop-outs, pregnancy, kids with arrest records, etc.  You're incredibly naive if you don't think a child's peer group can influence their educational experience.  There are many low SES kids who are great students, and who go on to achieve great things- my mother being one of them- but the odds are stacked against them.  However, statistically, low SES kids are less likely to perform well I'm school and are less likely to go to college.

As much as I hate large classes, I'd choose a large class in a high SES school over a small class in a low SES school any day.  Unfortunatly, SES has more of an influence on academic performance than class size.[/quote]

I agree.  And most of the time the FARMS schools have high ESL enrollment and they eat up so much of the teacher's time because they don't understand a lick of what she is saying.  I will take a few more kids any day of the week over 16 kids with 6 that don't speak English.  And once middle school hits SES does make a huge difference.  The test scores, attendance, drop-out and police records of certain schools do not lie.  [/quote]

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