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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are not going to like this, but moving from a Focus or Title I school to a higher performing school can be like night and day. We went from a Focus school, that we really liked with smaller classes to a school in the Wootten cluster. The expectations for our kids were just much higher because of the peer group. Therefore, the teachers were teaching to them as opposed to the significant number of kids struggling at our old school. I know this is not a popular opinion in this board, [/quote]

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The expectations are hugely different and the peer group is also.  [b]Everything from field trips to parental involvement.  People sell Focus schools on here like the small class size makes up for any shortcomings, but that was not our experience.[/b]  YMMV[/quote]

Parent here who moved her kids during ES from a FOcus school to a W school. The only semi-positive thing at the new school is a higher number of kids with  higher expectations (not from teachers, but from parents). Biggest negative- huge class sizes and I mean, huge. My kids had so much more one-on-one at the Focus school and were challenged appropriately at their level. Not so much in the new school. By the way, my kids did awesome at their old school and continue to do so at their new one. It's not like our expectations for them increased at the new school.. If I could redo it again, I wouldn't have moved my kids till middle school when peer group becomes much more important. [/quote]

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