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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids. [/quote]

I mean, if you genuinely believe that the "peer group" is better at one school over another, you are very welcome to buy/rent in that school attendance zone. However, it is pretty gross to buy/rent in an economically diverse attendance zone and then claim that your own child is too special to go to school [i]with the other children whose families can afford that neighborhood.[/i][/quote]

Not gross, hypocritical. Most people typically want nothing to do with the unwashed masses down stream. [/quote]

Well, in this case the speculation is that it is the "unwashed masses" next door. Which is kind of gross. It takes a special kind of white privilege to argue that your child cannot possibly be educated alongside the children of the people who can also afford your neighborhood. [/quote]

But can they? with all the handouts going on in MoCo and concentrated low income households, I am not sure. My house is almost 1mil in TP, most of the kids families at my sons school (PBES) can’t afford that. There can be huge cultural difference separated by just a few blocks.

Different kids need different classes, this has always been the case. Remedial classes help low performance kids, it isn’t fair to either side to make the classes average and stick everyone in there. To fast for the kids lagging and too slow for the bright kids, who do you think the teacher will ignore when they have to chose? I fully understand that some of the obstacles come from things outside the kids control but that doesn’t really matter. At some point someone will tell them they didn’t make the cut.

Me wishing my kids are around the other top kids isn’t wishing bad for the other kids. I hope everyone gets the help they need not the help some politically sensitive person thinks has better optics [/quote]

The problem isn’t different classes for kids with different needs. The problem is when the remedial classes are nearly all poor kids and black and brown kids regardless of income. I was a poor black kid and am grateful that I didn’t grow up in MoCo because I was identified as GT in 3rd and got to skip a grade. I know AA MoCo natives my age that are much sharper than I am that never got tested at all. [/quote]

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