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[quote=Anonymous]For some reason many DCUM posters think that if you send your children to PS then you have to just take what you can get. I cannot understand this mentality. Set your sights high! School to home communication is very important and it says a lot about the culture of the school. Is the school a place where autonomy and critical thinking are developed in students who have a certain amount of freedom? Or, does the school have a very regimented institutional approach with little care for the individual? Why speak respectfully to the widgets in society that will comprise the working classes and need to learn to follow instructions and accustom themselves to being spoken to negatively?

Here is a link to some old but very telling research about how different public schools, within the same district, and with students of the same race but different SES, prepared their students through the structure of the school environment to occupy different places on the social ladder. It matters. The communication absolutely matters.
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~cac/nlu/fnd504/anyon.htm[/quote]

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