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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. No there are no special credentials beyond what you are teaching. SPED teachers need their credentials. ESOL is the same. But the K-6 folks, a license is a license. And the talk about special credentials or whatever is nonsense. We are the same.

I know there is a lot of saying well those parents aren't as great so your parents who do all of this are just better unless you believe poor people or non-native English speaks will never catch up (spoiler alert -- they can).

It's the wrong tack. You are being screwed wealthy parents. The SOL scores, the great school scores, the whole these kids all do well "Lake Webgone mentality is so, so problematic because we just push everything to you. You will get the tutor.[b] Unless you complain, no one is calling an IEP meeting (this is the thing that makes me the most crazy).[/b] I hate this. I hate that advocating is second because the data says we are the best of the best. [/quote]

We had lived in the district less than two weeks at our highly rated school when the staff told us they'd like to set up an IEP for one of our kids. A few years later, the high school initiated the process of setting up a 504 for another one of our kids (who performs very well academically). So your experience on this point may not be universal. However, I have noticed a huge gap in expectations between Honors/AP and the regular curriculum at our high school. And many of the honors/AP classes are very unforgiving. Since performance in the harder classes is to some extent dependent on SES, your argument suggests that it's actually a bad idea for a family of modest means to "move up" to a higher performing pyramid in hopes of getting access to better academics.
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