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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Focus and Title 1 schools have significantly smaller class sizes. If you're involved in your child's education, they'll do well at any school and likely better in a school where they can occasionally get individual attention. The myth of good and bad schools is based on test averages, not individual outcomes.[/quote]

To be honest though those lower ratios evaporate by 3rd grade. The smaller class benefit in the early years is offset on teachers that have to fill in huge gaps for many kids who are below grade level. Behavior starts getting bad around 4th and 5th grade. I have volunteered in a FOCUS school and there are more negatives than people care to admit. I do agree though that if you supplement your kid can do fine. Elementary school is about reading, writing and math. Any educated parent can fill in gaps and keep kids working about grade level.

There is LOTS of supplementing, enrichment and prep going on among the more well off in Focus schools. Its weird though because everyone does it and talks quietly among friends about which workbooks or online programs to use but its sort of a taboo. The same people supplementing like crazy and ordering the books on Amazon to prep for the CoGat will publicly make snide comments about prepping. [/quote]

Actually, the ratios don't evaporate by 3rd grade, but if that's what you need to tell yourself...[/quote]

At our school they did change in 3rd. [/quote]

Yes, class sizes in 3rd-5th are larger than K-2 across the board. But Focus/Title I class sizes are still smaller comparatively.[/quote]

The difference is a lot greater in K-2 than in 3-5.  In K it's the difference between a max of 18 (Focus/Title I) and a max of 25 (not).  That's a 7 student difference.  By 3rd grade I think it's a difference of a max of 26 v. a max of 28.  Or it might be 25/27.  Either way, it's a difference of about 2 students, not 7.  [/quote]

Not sure where you get this info but at our focus school 3rd+ typically has 20-23 students per class.[/quote]

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