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[quote=Anonymous]Bear in mind that not everyone's standards are the same.  For some schools, particularly where there's a very high FARMS percentage, there is an ingrained notion in the education community around Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, of the school's primary function being to serve first and foremost as a safe place to get kids off of the streets and get them fed.  Education and behavior are secondary to that - and that primary function may even be to the detriment of that first (for example, we can't make the classwork too hard or the discipline too harsh, lest kids end up back on the streets).

That's important to some folks.

But to others, where kids skipping school and running wild on the streets is not an issue, where kids going hungry is not an issue, that doesn't meet their needs or standards.  Those folks are far more interested in an education that IS challenging.

And then there's the in-between.

And then, there's folks who are blissfully unaware of any of these paradigms...[/quote]

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