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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's called two different experiences. So there's no blanket rule that title 1 schools won't work for you. It works for some and not others.[/quote]

Ya know, I've been on Cap Hill since the 90s.  I talked to a lot of parents and have elementary school age kids.  The reality is that Title 1 schools seldom work for high SES families in the upper grades, unless there's a school-within-a-school program attracting few poor kids (e.g. Tyler Spanish Immersion).   Granola crunchie parents driven mainly by political ideology and white guilt will invariably claim that all's well.  I don't believe them.

Come on, what works is when Title 1 schools in gentrifying areas stop being Title 1, like Ludlow-Taylor this year, and Maury a few years back, and, thus, become real neighborhood schools.[/quote]

I’m sorry your experience was so bad. I don’t doubt your experience.

My experience is with a Petworth-area title 1 schoool and its different than your experience.  Believe what you want about me. I don’t really care.  Cynical parents like you won’t choose a title 1 school.  Got it.  Anyone more open-minded than you may find something that works.[/quote]
Cynical parents. Give us a break.  Common sense dictates that urban Title 1 schools rarely work for high SES parents in the upper grades, absent a test-in GT or school-within-a-school program.

You can be plenty open-minded and still arrive at the logical conclusion that life is too short to choose an option that works better for your politics than in promoting your children's well being.  Ask around.[/quote]

there are people (our family included) who are choosing to stay in Title 1 schools, and actually they are working for our kids. My observation is that the people for whom it works are not quite "granola crunchie" but are exceptionally privileged and intelligent -- double Ivy parents, etc -- these are kids who will be superstars wherever they go, and their parents are supremely unworried about their futures (in addition to being open minded people who dont mind being a racial minority). The kids are not suffering, and the schools are benefiting from these families.[/quote]

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