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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I do hear this fear from parents that you mention too, but I don't know if it's real. Can anyone chime in if they have a high-performing child in a lower-performing school, and how it has affected them?[/quote]

np here.  I have no kids yet in MoCo but I have a very close relative who teaches at New Hampshire Estates, a title I school.   Sbe tells us things that she's really contractually or ethically forbidden to discuss.  In her classes of ~15, there's always one child who[i] isn't[/i] FARM + ESL.   The other 14 are always poor to dirt poor recent immigrants with parents who are entirely uninvested in the kids' education -- for a variety of reasons.  ie, they don't speak English, it's not culturally common to engage with teachers, they work 3 jobs, they live in another country and the kid is staying in a counsin's basement ... whatever.

Bottom line, my teacher-relative spends 98% of her time focusing on the 14 students described above because she must.  The 'high performing child' gets minimal attention and my relative freely admits this.  She is frustrated because she spend a huge amount of time on classroom management and behavior and less time than is needed on instruction.

Not to mention, when 14 of the 15 kids need to learn at a slow pace during oral instruction  -- again, for a variety of understandable reasons -- the 15th kid must necessarily learn at a slow pace.   Do a DCUM search for 'new hampshire estates' and you'll find other posts of hers and mine with more concrete examples of what I'm talking about. [/quote]

What you detail in your post is exactly why the country (and county) is going down hill.  Thank you for posting it.  End this nonsense of allowing illegals in our schools; likewise in-state tuition in our colleges.  Why are we training an illegal person with job skills when by the very nature of being illegal, they will not be allowed to legally contribute to our workforce.

I found it was amazing that precious few put 2 and 2 together a few months ago when MoCo put out the news that schools were getting overcrowded:

Montgomery County opens new schools, but overcrowding worries remain
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120111/NEWS/701119615/montgomery-county-opens-new-schools-but-overcrowding-worries-remain&template=gazette

when all they had to do was look back a year ago at Michelle Obama visiting one of our county schools and talking up the fact that it would be okay for illegals to continue this practice of taking up so many of these slots in our schools.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/05/immigration-hits-home-for-young-girl-and-first-lady-michelle-obama/

So on the one hand, the first lady talks up the fact that we need to allow illegals in our schools, and within months we find ourselves in an overcrowding crisis.  Are the coocoos minding the shop?  Hello, election year.

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