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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone seems to be using examples of ELEMENTARY schools that are low/high income.

Don't you think things change in HS?  [/quote]

My kids went to a Title 1 elementary school and high FARMS middle and high school.  My oldest did all honors in middle and all honors/all IB in high school (did the full IB diploma) and he's now at W&M and says his classroom experience during HS prepared him exceptionally well for the rigor at W&M.    My youngest is still in middle school but is in all honors.  In the middle and high school, their experience has been they are in a "school within a school."  Even more so at the HS in the IB classes.  His IB classes had 20 or fewer students - he had 14 in his IB Math class his senior year.  The only time he dealt with disruptive, unengaged students was in PE.  His cohort of high achieving students was very small - they all ended up at top schools.   There was at least one instance he did not get the class he wanted because there was only one section offered and it conflicted with either his band or language class (can't remember which one.)

I don't know what the experience would be like if they were taking Gen Ed classes in middle and high school.  My guess is there would be lots of disruption and kids who just don't care.

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Sure, you can use the IB program as a way to make your child's school into an "upper tier" school.  But, for my kid who is taking a mix of honors and gen. ed. classes, I'm glad we moved to the higher income school where there aren't disruptive kids making the teachers hate coming to school.  My friends with kids at our former school have said (independent of each other) that the gen ed classes like Spanish or on-grade math/science have had so many disruptive kids that the teacher either told the 5 kids who wanted to learn to sit in the front of the class or, in another case, quit after telling them that they (the disruptors) were the reason (and the sub said she was going to quit for the same reason).  My kid at the upper tier school isn't going to be in all AP classes... but she also says that there aren't disruptive kids taking over her classes.  [/quote]

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